this is a nice board
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7 replies; created at 2024-04-30 12:00:52 by Anonymous
this is a nice board
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created at 2025-06-17 19:55:39 by Anonymous
Thanks!
Waiting for a mod to accept a post is annoying, but hopefully that'll stop the CP spam we've been seeing
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created at 2025-06-17 19:59:41 by Anonymous
Posts have to be approved now?
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created at 2025-06-17 20:35:43 by Anonymous
Images are back?
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Gardening
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0 replies; created at 2025-06-17 21:20:02 by gnome in category growing
Fuck yeah, SolarChan is back!
Gardening
This thread is for everything gardening, from a window box up to an orchard.
We've taken over an old overgrown scrap of land, and we've got it mostly cleared.
Our stumbling block now is what to do with all the heaps of organic matter!We'd rather not burn it as we're near some residential gardens which we want to keep on-side.
Compost seems the way to go, but there's just so much of it and it's all woody, twiggy and dry!Anyone been in a similar situation or have any advice?
Solarpunk Cities
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2 replies; created at 2022-09-18 19:47:53 by Anonymous in category urban
What is the world's most solarpunk city right now?
I don't think anywhere could be said to be living harmoniously with nature, but where comes closest?
Some features I think we'd need to consider:
- A sense of community
- Transport
- Food production
- Energy use
- Politics (non-hierarchical movements)
- Beauty & green space
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created at 2022-09-19 22:04:24 by Anonymous
Barcelona is probably the best I've seen, there seems to be a decent sense of community and the best mass transit I've seen in Western Europe.
I still wonder whether a city can really be the ideal solarpunk environment for living; I think towns of 20.000-50.000 inhabitants are probably best as you can find all of the amenities of a city while maintaining a connection to the surrounding rural food production.
I think that size often creates a better feeling of community too. Obviously not always; some towns that size are culturally dead - especially when they're spread over low-density suburbia. I think with the right urban design and high population densities that size is perfect though.
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created at 2024-03-06 17:42:43 by Anonymous
I think smaller towns are better for the Solarpunk ideal.
At the moment there is little to do in smaller towns, but that's because the huge cities have sucked everything up!
After we all move back into towns and villages, those towns and villages will thrive in a way that they currently don't.
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Poetry
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10 replies; created at 2023-02-15 18:28:08 by literati in category literature
Do you write poetry?
This is a thread for sharing and constructive criticism.
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created at 2024-06-20 14:02:20 by Anonymous
Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets by William Stafford
Breaking every law except the one
for Go, rolling its porpoise way, the rocket
staggers on its course; its feelers lock
a stranglehold ahead; and-rocking-finders
whispering “Target, Target,” back and forth,
relocating all its meaning in the dark,
it freezes on the final stage. I know
that lift and pour, the flick out of the sky
and then the power. Power is not enough.Bough touching bough, touching … till the shore,
a lake, an undecided river, and a lake again
saddling the divide: a world that won’t be wise
and let alone, but instead is found outside
by little channels, linked by chance, not stern;
and then when once we’re sure we hear a guide
it fades away toward the opposite end of the road
from home; a world that goes wrong in order to have revenge.
Our lives are an amnesty given us.There is a place behind our hill so real
it makes me turn my head, no matter. There
in the last thicket lies the cornered cat
saved by its claws, now ready to spend
all there is left of the wilderness, embracing
its blood. And that is the way that I will spit
life, at the end of any trail where I smell any hunter,
because I think our story should not end
or go on in the dark with nobody listening. -
created at 2024-07-03 14:25:26 by Anonymous
Utopian Futures by Kimya Dawson
Somewhere the bombing all has stopped
And people begin to sit and talk
And somewhere insomniatic stockbrokers can rest their bloodshot eyes
'cause there's nothing left to buy or sell
Or kill or die for anymore
We're living inside eternal moments that we've searched for all our lives
There's nobody living by the clock
And every door is left unlocked
'cause property died all alone and capitalism lost its home
There's plenty of fresh air here in town
And plants are growing on the cars
And all of the streets are used for dancing
And at night you see all the starsYa da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Ya da da da, da da da da
Ya da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Ya da da da, da da da daWe're searching for something that was lost
And centuries all have covered up
We're flailing to find the smallest fragments of our liberated lives
And every tiny piece we find
We pick up and glue together
Collectively working for our utopian futures to collide
In snuggly beds and midnight talks
In wandering bike rides and wayward walks
Making up all of our own music, art, myth, food and news
It's happening everywhere we go
Collective bookstores and basement shows
Sharing a song that we all know or making up new ones as we goYa da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Ya da da da, da da da da
Ya da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Da da da da, da da da daI'm a dream, this is real
I'm a dream, you are here
I'm a dream, you are me
I'm a dream, we are free
I'm a dream, this is real
I'm a dream, you are here
I'm a dream, you are me
I'm a dream, we are freeNow can't you feel the ice caps grow?
Now can't you hear the forests laugh
At piles of nicely packaged toothpicks all in processed warehouse rows
'cause the only processing we do now
Is with one another in our homes
With people we'll fight, fuck, laugh and cry with
Until the day we die
Here where we share all that we've won
Here where we grieve for what is lost
Here where the children grow with names they chose and genders all their own
Here where we celebrate each other
Here where you've never had a boss
Here where we sing like restless kids with half-chewed food inside our mouthsYa da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Da da da da, da da da da
Ya da da da di ya, ya da da da da
Ya da da da, da da da daHere in the place outside the box
There are no more borders left to cross
From each according to ability and to each based on need
Here in the place where dreams aren't dead
Here in the space between our heads. -
created at 2024-11-09 15:06:42 by Anonymous
Gold & Youth - Empire State of Mind
Well I grew up in the client-state of a petro king with a complicated take on things like human rights, But baby that's the sacrifice, for bringing joy to the world
And I learned young how the west was won, with Christ's big heart and a bigger gun
But it wasn't enough so we took the moon
Because nazi rocket science too, can bring joy to the worldThe war on drugs, this righteous cause
To clear our streets of criminals, now civilized by an opioid, so the Sackler family can enjoy
Spreading joy around the worldNew York City, the world loves you and retribution was surely duе
To the zealots who brought you hell, boy thе heroes in Langley taught them well
How to infiltrate joy into the worldCan’t we all just get along like Amazon and Raytheon
Coming together to make a drone
To bring us lunch and kill their sons in a synergistic 2-for-1
Ballistic joy to the worldPlease stop resisting all the joy in your world
Just a car full of celebrities singing about the joy in your worldA string of bad luck, in this final turn, we gathered around and watched our cities burn
“Who could have possibly predicted this?!” said everyoneSo we'll boldly venture into the black, guided by a Grimes soundtrack
We'll liberate some foreign stars and stick a flag on the face of mars
There’s beauty in starting again, patient zero of original sin
As the mantra rings across the land “how clever, look at us, we've done it again!”
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Rebellion
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15 replies; created at 2022-03-17 19:13:57 by Anonymous in category punk
A lot of Solarpunk focuses on imagining the future solar utopia, and neglects the DIY punk action required to build it.
With that in mind, how do we fight technocapital?
What punk things have you done IRL?
Remember: The NSA stores everything! Never post anything that would incriminate yourself over clearnet.
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created at 2024-05-22 23:45:03 by Anonymous
>how do we fight technocapital?
We do it the way guerrillas and terrorists do it but minus the violence part. Mao talks about establishing base areas and liberated zones, ideally in places the oppressor forces can't easily penetrate like the jungle or mountains.We need to create underground communities and areas in places the authorities don't think to look. There we can build an alternative society where people no longer have to depend on the system to survive. Then we expand these communities by pursuing a strategy of weakening the infrastructure of technocapital. We expand like a self-replicating virus or mushroom spoors, infecting other outcast regions. We eat away at technocapital until its so weak it dies off.
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created at 2024-06-20 14:10:54 by Anonymous
>>203
> We do it the way guerrillas and terrorists do it but minus the violence part.
This is pretty interesting, how applicable do you think the writings of eg. Mau or Guevarra are to the 21st century? Do you think they can work without the violence?
I agree about creating our own small spaces and networks outside "the system" - not only do they have the potential to grow but it also feels like the only scale where we can make a real impact.
Does anyone have any specific ideas for these "outside" spaces? Is a network of friends enough, or should we have organized structures and committees? Once we have a "space", how do we grow it and begin to degrade technocapital?
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created at 2024-10-13 20:39:41 by Anonymous
>>209
>>203
> We do it the way guerrillas and terrorists do it but minus the violence part.
This is pretty interesting, how applicable do you think the writings of eg. Mau or Guevarra are to the 21st century? Do you think they can work without the violence?
I agree about creating our own small spaces and networks outside "the system" - not only do they have the potential to grow but it also feels like the only scale where we can make a real impact.
Does anyone have any specific ideas for these "outside" spaces? Is a network of friends enough, or should we have organized structures and committees? Once we have a "space", how do we grow it and begin to degrade technocapital?
Yes, you can see in Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon etc. how guerrilla principals are applicable. But these are purely armed groups which for our purposes are unnecessary. Hezbollah is an instructive case because its an entity that's built its own mini alternative government and army mostly by itself and despite being a guerilla organization has weapons and equipment rivaling actual nation-states.
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Solarpunk Communities
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10 replies; created at 2022-08-24 16:27:48 by PolarSunk in category community
Are there any other solarpunk communities out there?
I know about reddit and there's some good stuff there but it's mostly just aesthetics like this pic. I'm more interested in things like lowtechmagazine, considering practical things we can do today.
I'm also looking for communities for the social side of punk; where we can organize, collaborate and exchange ideas not just feelgood videos.
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created at 2024-02-10 19:41:26 by Anonymous
>lowtechmagazine
There's nothing low-tech about photovoltaics, and nothing high-tech that is sustainable. Passive solar and biofuels are the way forward. In fact, George Brayton invented an engine capable of burning biomass directly (minimal processing) over 150 years ago. Modern gas turbines operate on the same principle. -
created at 2024-02-20 03:17:47 by Anonymous
The folks at Usufruct Commons are nice and definitely seem like they'd be into solarpunk!
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created at 2024-09-21 22:34:43 by Anonymous
gemini is not serverless
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how to be solarpunk?
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1 replies; created at 2024-05-09 16:22:43 by iflowerb
how to be solarpunk?
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created at 2024-05-21 22:02:16 by Anonymous
Idk I've just discovered solarpunk and read some interesting stuff on it and so here I ended up. Wish this place was a little more active.
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yo i just found this
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0 replies; created at 2024-04-21 02:49:54 by NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
this is really cool solarpunk, i want to know more it sucks the spammers. thats gay. im really glad i found this tho.
you should also check out, https://wirechan.org/ and https://echobubble.xyz/
Welcome to Solarchan
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16 replies; created at 2022-03-08 19:54:07 by Solarchan Admin in category solarchan
Welcome to Solarchan!
Solarchan is an imageboard loosely themed around the ideas of solarpunk. It is a place to share your ideas, show off your projects and joke around on the internet.
Solarpunk is optimistic, earnest and empathetic. We like to joke, but we don't bully. we give and accept arguments or criticism in good faith. We want to make the world a better place for everyone who lives on it. Posts which go against this spirit might receive a warning, or even be removed.
I hope we can build something beautiful with the connections we make here. <3
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created at 2024-02-10 14:00:36 by Anonymous
Greetings from Lainchan!
Refreshing to see a forum that doesn't require JS. A dying breed sadly.
While I can see which thread I'm replying to with the URL I think it would be nice to put the title (with link) somewhere above the reply box.
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created at 2024-02-16 14:03:33 by Solarchan Admin
>>179
> While I can see which thread I'm replying to with the URL I think it would be nice to put the title (with link) somewhere above the reply box.Noted, I'll try to get around to it!
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created at 2024-03-08 14:54:38 by Anonymous
Happy Birthday Solarchan!
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Home servers
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5 replies; created at 2022-11-02 21:51:01 by high there in category tech
I've just read the homebrewserver manifesto, looked at the stack of unused laptops on my shelf, and I feel inspired!
What do you guys actually do with your home servers though?
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created at 2022-11-15 19:48:26 by Anonymous
>>90
> What i'm doing right now is setting up a Xen virtual machine server to host multiple websites and services in a fairly secure manner
Isn't Xen kinda overkill? You can host multiple sites with an Nginx reverse proxy, unless you're doing some kind of interesting interactivity.
Good luck and have fun anyhow!
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created at 2022-11-22 17:17:10 by Anonymous
>>90
How easy is it to set up Xen?
I looked into it a few times for distro-hopping but it looked a bit overwhelming.
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created at 2024-02-16 14:14:49 by Anonymous
>>86
What do you guys actually do with your home servers though?The most useful things I've found:
- Pihole to block ads at the network level (helping free lazy housemates who won't even get an adblocker from the thought-control machine)
- Jellyfin to stream torrented TV and movies, I give logins to a circle of friends so they can easily watch some decent media instead of whatever Netflix pushes on them
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