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

Can we design ourselves out of our current predicament? It could be argued that we have the technology we need – and that it’s just a question of how be put it all together. We

Here’s a look from the Guardian last week at an ‘intentional community’ where looking after wildlife is a priority; or, as the founder says, ‘We miss having a dog but it’s the price you pay’:

We already have today what we need for tomorrow: “Indeed, many of the technologies and practices that solarpunks draw into their imaginings already exist: solar and other renewable energy, urban agriculture, or organic architecture and

There are lots of good explanations of what SolarPunk is all about – and these pages have attempted this over time, including a guide to the environmental art movement that is solarpunk. … solarpunk as narrative strategy … solarpunk can

There is a very inspiring and hopeful piece looking at Africa put together a couple of weeks ago by blogger Skander Garroum in his pages on Climate Drift – where he shows Why Solarpunk is

It would be instructive to get the answer to the question: Why did a solarpunk future of clean-energy abundance fail to arrive after the oil shock of the 1970s? The answer was and is, of course, lack