There are many ways to look positively to the future. We can rewrite the future with hope and innovation, we can fall in love with the future and we can change how we think about the future. Or we

What are the best solarpunk games these days – and how do they capture the spirit of solarpunk? Here’s an opinion: The planet is on fire. Rising sea levels, melting ice caps, droughts, and more frequent hurricanes

What is the thinking behind Solarpunk? An oft-quoted piece on Solarpunk [and often referred to on these pages…] is that solarpunk is not about pretty aesthetics. it’s about the end of capitalism. And yet the author

The latest issue of the Big Issue looks at.. a big issue, namely, how the way we think about the future needs to change.  Author Sarah Housley looks at positive perspectives “from solarpunk to the metaverse”

Under the rubric ‘Sustainable Sidmouth’, the VGS is a member of the Transition Town movement – and has been so since the earliest days of both the group and the movement.  About the same time,

As a genre, science fiction is perhaps one of the best for exploring ‘big ideas’. And in particular, both solarpunk and cyberpunk science fictions make ‘playgrounds for thought experiments’. Whilst the solarpunk aesthetic and movement is

Solarpunk seems to be getting everywhere – and it seems to appeal to all generations. Whether it’s the solarpunk graphic novel or street art to brighten up people’s days, whether it’s the international reach of solarpunk or an alive and

If anything, the solarpunk movement is interactive – whether it’s the latest video game [acclaimed indie dev properly reveals his solarpunk open-world comedy] or other types of gaming coming out [Critical Role’s next board game

In a very readable and refreshing piece Young & Meaningful, the Japanese-American high school student Elise Mayumi Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend. And

Earlier in the year, Greenpeace was warning about Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels. Last