Solarpunk is a rather difficult thing to pin down – other than it’s about exploring realistic, positive futures where we put respecting and working with the planet at the centre of our visions.

For example:

Solarpunk is visionary – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Solarpunk idea: positive imaging of the future – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Solarpunk is not ‘positive thinking’ but ‘realistic optimism’ – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Here’s the opening and close from a piece on the OnlySky platform: “Exploring possible futures with critical thought and imagination”:

Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there...

Solarpunk, like humanism, is a banner term that contains multitudes. It has a body of aesthetics, a literary and visual-art canon, and a range of people who raise that banner high in their sociopolitical and eco-conscious practice. But what it is, and what it can help foster in the way of real-world change, is really up to those who employ it.

Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair

For more visionary explorations, check out something to Listen to:

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