Links Roundup
The interwebs had so many interesting things to read this week! Here’s a links roundup of a few.
Solarpunk Naiveté?
In this post, Christina ponders the opposition that solarpunks face, both offline and online. Solarpunk opts for optimism—and action—over despair, but sometimes she wonders if we are just being naïve.
Working on Better Endings
Is Solarpunk the Hippie Movement Redux?
Christina here with a confession. Sometimes when people talk solarpunk, I can’t help but wonder if solarpunk is just this decade’s version of being a hippie. Solarpunks want to wear natural fiber clothing, listen to groovy music, eat organic food, grow their own veggies, shop at co-ops, and peace out in a world full of social justice, sustainability, and community gardens. It’s easy to think, well, how is this not just the 1960’s all over again? Or for that matter, how is solarpunk not just another resurgence of the same old ideas about alternatives to the prevailing society that have been going in and out of style since even before the Cynics of Ancient Greece?
Eating Like the Ancestors (Some of Them, at Least)
All those years I stared at the huitlacoche galls on the corn and thought EW! What an idiot I was. I could have been eating this amazingness instead. Three cheers to the person who first got hungry (or curious) enough to give the fungal galls on maize a good chew. They're totally now my hero.
A Self-Driving Auto Dystopia
Never mind the autos of the future, the cars of today are already a privacy nightmare. As in, if your biggest fear of a self–driving car future is of the hacker who takes over and crashes the car you’re riding in, guess again. Our biggest fear should be of the car companies themselves and the future they're aiming to create for us. And the present they've already got us corralled in.
What If We All Stopped to Look at Everything With Wonder?
What If We All Stopped to Look at Everything With Wonder?