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1 replies; created at 2022-09-24 21:02:16 by Anonymous in category trash
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created at 2022-09-25 06:24:39 by Anonymous
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3 replies; created at 2022-04-05 12:03:55 by Pseudonym in category category
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created at 2022-04-09 04:59:02 by Anonymous
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created at 2022-07-30 05:34:20 by Anonymous
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created at 2022-09-22 18:57:07 by Anonymous
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Solarpunk Communities
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3 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 2022-08-30 10:51:57 by Anonymous
It's fairly dead, but there's a solarpunk matrix channel at #solarpunks:pixie.town
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created at 2022-09-20 17:05:46 by Anonymous
There are plenty of Solarpunk & Solarpunk adjacent blogs & newsletters out there!
Here are a couple I subscribe to:
- https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/archive
- https://onsolarpunk.substack.com/archive
- https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/archive
- https://thedorkweb.substack.com/archive
It seems quite popular on the Gemini protocol too!
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created at 2022-09-21 16:52:27 by Anonymous
If we're posting Solarpunk blogs & zines, I've got a few to add!
- https://issuu.com/optopia/docs
- http://opensourcelowtech.org/
- gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~shufei/phlog/20200712-Comp-Solarpunk.gmi
- gemini://gemini.autonomy.earth/posts/archive/articles-date/articles-date-2021/articles-date-2021-09/5e98f842d2aef0812a34a9ceff0e9f67-Solarpunk_Is_Not_About_Pretty_Aesthetics_Its_About_the_End_of_Capitalism.gmi
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Welcome to Solarchan
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12 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 2022-05-07 14:14:31 by Anonymous
Thanks for the warm welcome solarchan admin! I really like your site. It feels nice to browse and post. I hope a good community grows here with enough water and sunlight!
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created at 2022-06-14 15:32:12 by Lainchan visitor
Nice site OP, I like the aesthetic. I wish you all the best, keep it up!
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created at 2022-09-19 22:06:10 by Anonymous
Hello from matrix://#solarpunks:pixie.town !
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Solarpunk Cities
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1 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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Matrix chat
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0 replies; created at 2022-09-14 18:18:19 by Solarchan Admin in category solarchan
Solarchan now includes a Matrix server!
Matrix is a federated, encrypted chat protocol like IRC or discord.
There are a variety of clients available for almost any platform, desktop or mobile.Like email, you create an account with one homeserver but can communicate with users from any other homeserver.
If you already have a matrix account, join us in #chat:solarchan.club!
If you don't, get yourself a client and create a new account. You can use whichever homeserver you like, including solarchan.club.
shit site
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5 replies; created at 2022-05-08 18:39:32 by Anonymous
design of this website is pure shit
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created at 2022-06-18 16:19:17 by Anonymous
I love it.
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created at 2022-08-22 16:33:33 by Anonymous
the colors hurt my eyes :/
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created at 2022-08-23 14:35:20 by Anonymous
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>the colors hurt my eyes :/
You can use a browser extension like "Dark Reader" or "Dark Background and Light Text" to change the colors (and not just to a dark bg and light fg).
What I do though is subscribe to the feed and view everything in my feed reader with the style & formatting I like.
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Urban Farming
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5 replies; created at 2022-05-26 13:39:44 by NaNon in category growing
>Gun-toting youths watch over a street in a Rio de Janeiro slum hit hard by drug trafficking, but walk a bit further and this rough area also boasts the largest urban vegetable garden in Latin America.
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>This success story is unfolding in a favela called Manguinhos in the north of Rio, and thrives as the rest of the country frets over rampant inflation and worries over Russian fertilizer, a major concern for Brazil's powerful agriculture sector.
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>These days the garden feeds some 800 families a month with produce that is pesticide free and affordable, two features that do not always go hand in hand.
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>This particular garden is the size of four football fields and every month it produces 2.5 tons of yuca, carrots, onions, cabbage and other vegetables.Anyone doing this?
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created at 2022-07-21 17:06:09 by Anonymous
I like this thread. I've been reading about crispr. Coming into communication with the code that makes life seems really cool to me, and I think it could be a step toward permaculture and more difficult but more sustainable farming practices. But obviously it's also a tool for harmful GMO practices. What do you think of gene editing? Is it a healthy extension of normal breeding, cross pollination and etc techniques, or is it a pandora's box?
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created at 2022-08-01 15:52:56 by Anonymous
Has anyone stratified seeds before? I tried it a few years back. It's really rewarding when little trees start sprouting, but sadly I neglected my little trees while in college and they all died. ;_; maybe I'll try again, but I hear fruit trees from seed actually dont work that well.
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created at 2022-08-23 14:31:40 by Anonymous
IDK if it counts as urban farming, but there are a couple of apple trees in our garden.
The year we moved in they were overflowing with delicious, healthy apples, but I don't know how to look after them properly.
The last couple of years they've been rotting on the branch and getting eaten by worms.I pruned the trees in January and there are maybe more apples than previous years, but they're still not too healthy.
Anyone have any tips for looking after them, preferably avoiding toxic chemicals?
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Rebellion
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6 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 2022-07-11 23:34:41 by Anonymous
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> people with actual power don't careWouldn't it make sense to try and become someone with actual power and care? That seems to be what Elon Musk is doing, if you believe he cares about anything or not, I certainly see more electric cars on the road because of him.
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created at 2022-08-04 14:46:34 by Anonymous
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>Wouldn't it make sense to try and become someone with actual power and care?
Sure, if you inherit an emerald mine you should use that wealth for good.
The rest of us should focus our efforts where they're most likely to be successful, rather than burning out chasing an impossible dream.
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created at 2022-08-12 21:45:50 by Anonymous
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Mmm, I see what you mean. Perhaps a better sentiment would be to become "some people" with power, rather than "some person" with power. I dont think limiting your search for allies to just where you live makes sense. However paying attention to where you live is surely some kind of solarpunk virtue.
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you young whippersnappers dunno how good you got it
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0 replies; created at 2022-05-07 13:37:08 by Anonymous in category philosophy
I'm gonna give a sentiment that is pretty anti change, so I encourage argument against it cause I do want change towards better, gooder, nicer!
The thing is though... I don't think you should tear down systems that are doing something, until you've removed the need for doing that something, or created a better system for doing that something, in which case the original system should fade naturally. I think of this especially with respect to finance and governence.
I'm not certain some crypto currency will ever be better for the world than traditional finance, but I'm pretty sure one will. So the thing to do in this case would be to identify all the things old money is still doing better than crypto, and implementing things with crypto that to that thing better. Once crypto is doing everything old money did better, everyone will just want to switch. If it's done right, this will include people who supported banks, bankers, and hopefully even actors who use the existence of banks for malevolent actions. I wouldn't mind if that last category switched over begrudgingly.
Governance would be a bit more difficult. The thing governments do that is actually quite useful is the soliciting of "donations" (taxes) and distribution to public services. I'd like to see that replaced by, maybe something like paytreon tbh. Donations to public infrustruction maintainance. Donations to managing political relations with other parts of the world. Donations to public healthcare. Donations to education. People like making their lawns and gardens look nice, they should care about their roads and everything being nice as well, but you don't get out your ashfault paver on the weekend like you get out your lawn mower, you donate to road maintainance. Coupling this back to bragging rights would help. "Hey did you see the improvements to the old bridge? Yeah, I was one of the contributers to that!"
Because people ideally should like the things that their taxes go to. The government is supposed to represent the will of the people. If everything was online and volentary like that it should become more transparent.
One issue there would be the dynamics of public opinion and education... really people should be saying what things they care about and then teams work out the best strategies to achieve those things. It seems right now people say what strategies they care about, and thats probably a problem.
The bigger issue with creating something that does what governments do but better is that a bunch of what governments to is to manage the monopoly on violence... which is pretty unpleasant. I think what's really needed here are some really skilled game thorists to come up with incentive gradients that slowly remove violence from being a reasonable action. Maybe like how in the cold war nukes strongly implied mutual destruction, so neither the US nor the USSR wanted to do anything, but somehow and all levels. That's just an example though... the cold war was actually pretty scary. Hopefully actually skilled game theorists could come up with better and comfier strategies. The point is though, that the monopoly on violence right now is serving some purpose to some people, and that purpose needs to be made irrelevent, and then it should fade on it's own.
Using the past to work with the present to move to the future...
Of course I'm not sure how much sense that really makes and it sure is high level and hard to act on. What do you sunrise friends think?
