It’s the time of year to look forward with hope. Here are some excerpts from a recent piece by Alexandria Shana promising just that: Solarpunk originated in Brazil in the early 2000s. In 2008, a

Earlier in the summer, the Nation magazine looked at Phoebe Wagner’s short story “Children of Asphalt,” which appeared in the 2021 anthology Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures. – and at how, in her new collection of

Even academics are beginning to look at the promise of SolarPunk: Furthering an exploration of urban landscapes and climate, Dr Jamie Wang, a researcher from the department of Gender and Cultural studies, presented images of

Can Virtual Reality and Extended Reality help us to be not only more creative but allow us to touch the reality of our environment more intimately? Here are some provocative and inspiring thoughts and moving

We don’t need to put up with an overworked drainage system in our towns and cities. Futures Forum: Climate change: calling for a new approach to ensure communities are resilient to the threat of flooding

There is huge interest in Solarpunk across the world: it is not just confined to the Anglosphere: there are lots of ideas and projects happening everywhere… Germany: Das Science-Fiction-Genre Solarpunk zeichnet Zukünfte, in denen Menschen im

Literally, make-do-and-mend – but in a very cool and ‘modern’ way: When was the last time you mended something, like sewed on a button or darned a holey sock? Unless you’re a reader of a

Do you fancy making your own power station? The ‘solar punks’ turning their London street into a community power station Two artists in London are finding ingenious ways to fund a project that puts power

Here’s a piece from Kolkata from today – which starts in Arizona: Solarpunk: A brilliant subculture, its solutions and visions Just as in cyberpunk, where neon-lit cyberworld settings exist within contexts of rebellion and anarchy,

This spring on Earth Day, the Independent gave us a list of books to ‘help us understand climate change’ – and its top choice was a beautiful look at ‘braiding sweetgrass’: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin