Here’s an excerpt from a very inspiring piece on “how to SolarPunk society”: Let’s first get a sense of where solarpunk design can be located. Is it grassroots, city-level, or even a national project and

There are some great biotechnologies which could really impact how we build – from ‘bio-cement’, to ‘self-healing concrete’, to ‘microalgae façades’: innovation in architecture: living materials from biotechnology – Sidmouth Solarpunk And then there is

The ‘circular economy’ is all about using the resources we have rather than just throwing them away. Here’s a great set of pieces from the SolarPunk Station: Circular Economy | Solarpunk Station With a few

When the pandemic hit two years ago, there was a real push for community food support programmes: She’s building Los Angeles’ first solar community fridge. Will it help extinguish hunger? “Free-food fridge programs have mushroomed

Good question from a SolarPunk website: Anyone have ideas for self-recycling e-waste? I don’t know anything about electronics but am willing to learn. Is it worth it to try and build new machines out of

As the government website points out, we throw out a lot of electrical stuff: Every year an estimated 2 million tonnes of WEEE items are discarded by householders and companies in the UK. Waste Electrical

Sidmouth SolarPunk is very much about the basics: The underlying beliefs of Solarpunk are very much ‘mend and make-do’; prepare food from scratch… Sidmouth being Solarpunk – Sidmouth Solarpunk These pages have looked at ‘local

Sidmouth SolarPunk has taken a look at food in a local context: The underlying beliefs of Solarpunk are very much ‘mend and make-do’; prepare food from scratch; use local and seasonal food supplies; support your

The Solarpunk ethos is very much about looking to the future by using what techniques and technologies we already have: Many of the ideas and themes can be found in earlier Sci Fi novels from

A big problem a lot of people have with ‘alternative energy’ is that much of it is visually imposing. Objections to a planning application for a solar farm near Ottery refer primarily to loss of