Today, the IPCC released its latest report – that “the window of opportunity to save the planet is rapidly closing”: UN issues gravest report yet on impacts of climate change | Daily Mail Online One

Interesting innovation from Exeter University: Scientists want to transform the walls of buildings into vast resources of renewable power generation and storage. Are smart solar bricks, super-capacitor bricks and microbial fuel cells really the future

3-d is everywhere… For example, craft-making is turning more and more to the digital world: The maker culture in general supports open-source hardware. Typical interests enjoyed by the maker culture include engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3-D printing,

… “a key concept in creating solutions for a sustainable future…” Four projects from Norway on display: Kristian August Gate 13 in Tullinløkka in Oslo is an adaptive reuse project transforming a 1950s building threatened

“There are other great blogs for theory and aesthetic. This blog is all about the practical. What can we do now and in the near future to live and make the world more solarpunk?” Practical

SolarPunk is very much about ‘aesthetics’ – and that can be very powerful: The Power of an Aesthetic – Sidmouth Solarpunk This is from a very stimulating piece which takes this idea even further forward:

Here’s a very good exploration of SolarPunk basics: 10 Signs You May Be a Solarpunk – YouTube With lots more here from the same author: The Solarpunk Scene – Think. Feel. Solarpunk

This is from an excellent article in last month’s Climate Change Review: Imagine a city of the future. Are there flying cars, cities with buildings taller than mountains, robots at every corner? Or is the