The brilliant essay In solarpunk cities of the future, tech follows nature’s lead has stimulated a lot of interesting and intelligent comment on its pages. And it’s inspired three pieces in turn on this blog:

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how we seem to be going from Anthropocene to Symbiocene, when “human technologies take their cues from living systems and work in partnership rather than through dominance”. The piece

One of the things that’s attractive about the Solarpunk movement is that it is not ‘demographic specific’ – in that its creativity and openness and hope is open to all generations to be inspired and

Let’s take the idea that we have the tools right now, we just need to use them correctly’ –  for example, making full use of things like floating gardens and clean energy. But let’s take it one step

How useful is it to think in terms of ‘utopia’ – and even to work towards it? Looking back at earlier posts, there should be something between the visionary and the utopian. That might even give

Africa has a lot to say to the rest of the world, as these pages have already showcased. Whether it’s how to use local materials! Rediscover earth to build with! Soil and mud in East

The SolarPunk movement is fundamentally about using creativity to envisage the future – because we need a ‘heightened imaginary response to climate change’. In science, that might mean seeing salt as a material for the future or using biodesign

To quote from a very inspiring piece from the Countercurrents site from the end of last year: “The solarpunk future isn’t speculative fiction but rather something that’s already materializing.” Yes, SolarPunk science fictions are ‘playgrounds for

Technology is not going to save us. Or, as a piece on the Futures Forum blog from a decade ago suggested on futurists and the promises of science and technology: “Our naïve innovation fetish” actually leads

How can we go about “future-proofing Sidmouth“? If we define this as making Sidmouth more resilient to the stresses and strains we will be facing, then yes, perhaps we can! And this is where Sidmouth