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

Why do big cities seem to be making so much headway? Smaller town perhaps are not hitting the headlines in the same way! GLASGOW As expected: In response to the UK Committee on Climate Change

Let’s get creative with alternatives to cement: innovation in architecture: living materials from biotechnology – Sidmouth Solarpunk We do indeed need alternatives: As demonstrated in the Chatham House report, while cement (an essential element for concrete