Links Roundup
Welcome to another edition of links roundup. This week, Ariel’s been reading and thinking about the following articles, none of which are explicitly solarpunk, but all of which relate to the way solarpunks choose to…
Links Roundup
How Do We Power Down?
ICYMI, here’s a post I put up on our Patreon back in March that, in anticipation of Season 5 (which we’re now partway into), considers the environmental problems posed by the use of cryptocurrencies and…
Solarpunk, Lunarpunk, Crypto, & Web3 with Stephen Reid
In Season 5 Episode 3 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina chats with transdisciplinary technologist Stephen Reid about relationship solarpunk and lunarpunk have to crypto and web3. If lunarpunk is what solarpunk gets up to in the…
Happy Solarpunk Action Week
Happy Solarpunk Action Week, everyone! If you’ve been up to anything cool in its honor, drop us a comment! We’d love to hear about it. Ariel has been working on getting her garden ready for…
Review of The High Sierra: A Love Story
INCYMI, the review I wrote of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The High Sierra: A Love Story is freely accessible on our Patreon. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/review-of-high-102071910?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link For more articles, reviews, bonus clips, early access to…
Podcasting Dreams of the Solacene with Alicia and Aaron
In this podcast, host Ariel has a chat with Aaron and Alicia, the team behind Solacene podcast in Montreal, Canada. They talk about the meaning of “Solacene”, their goals, the semester-structure of their show, zines,…
There Is No Perfect System
There’s no dipping one’s toe into the solarpunk stream without noticing that although not all solarpunks are anarchists, there is a strong sense in solarpunk that we won’t be living happily, freely, and sustainably until…
Let’s Talk Tech, Solarpunks! With Ariel & Christina
If tech wasn’t such a central aspect of solarpunk, we’d all just be hippies redux. Yet not all tech, right? Because solarpunk is also about living the good life while building a just, inclusive, and…
Hope, but not right away
This is more of a half-formed thought than a complete article, so bear with me, but I wanted to put it out there especially on this gloomsome spring day, where the sun is mostly hidden…
Happy Spring!
Hello, solarpunks! And HAPPY SPRING. Woot! Woot! It’s finally here! This year, it feels like the ancient Persian tradition of Nowruz are everywhere. Or, at least, it feels like they’ve popped up this week in…