Renting has its disadvantages – for example, when it comes to living as a tenant by the coast, when sea levels rise, so does your rent. When it comes to hiring a car as a tourist,
There are some fabulous videos out there explaining what SolarPunk is all about. Here’s the first in a series. It takes various visual tropes – from advertising to Hollywood and beyond – and suggests how
Solarpunk can be viewed from many angles – and articles which try to look at all of them can be somewhat too long and rather overwhelming, so that readers just don’t get the point of
Here’s a very interesting look at Solarpunk – and how it could be made more ‘ambitious’ with the promise of “a world where energy too cheap to meter unlocks technology that is indistinguishable from magic”:
Some thoughts for this time of year: The Charlie Brown Christmas special, in which Charlie struggles to cope with the rampant commercialization of the season. The Peanuts’ strong consensus is that they need “a great, big,
To realise a sustainable future, do we need big technology and big investment in new directions – or is what we now have enough? We have the technology we need – Sidmouth Solarpunk Here’s a
Here’s a stirring piece from last year looking to a positive, sustainable future – which some would call ‘solarpunk’: Do you believe in climate solutions? You just might be a solarpunk. What started as an
Back in 2021, the Nation magazine looked at “the novel solutions of utopian fiction” – as covered in these pages at the time: Utopian fiction – Sidmouth Solarpunk Back in 2016, they had interviewed an
The SP phenomenon started with a look at how our future visions could be much less doomladen: Sci-Fi, Sustainability And Hope “can offer an aesthetic and a sense of optimism that is actionable” – Sidmouth
A real problem facing young people is that the future stinks. Solarpunk visions offer something tangibly positive for the future – starting with fiction: Sci-Fi, Sustainability And Hope “can offer an aesthetic and a sense