Solarpunk is about looking to the future but grounded on the technology of the present: We don’t need ‘miracle’ technologies to fix the climate. We have the tools now suggests Mark Z Jacobson from The Guardian

Here are some excellent discussions on the Reddit social media pages: What types of technology do you hope will become common in a solarpunk society? : r/solarpunk and What tech do you imagine a Solarpunk future will include? : r/solarpunk – and, again, these technologies are very much based on what we already know.

Nevertheless, we can go beyond the confines of our current technologies through envisioning other possibilities – through science fiction and in particular solarpunk fiction. And “exploring the impossible in a positive way” is done very deftly in this piece on Solarpunk: Rewriting the Future with Hope and Innovation

Here’s a very solid and positive look into the future – from the Futurist project – 2025, the Year of Hope by Nikolas Badminton.

And to finish, here’s an excerpt from an academic piece looking to hope, design and technology: (No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination:

This article argues for exploring, connecting, and applying utopian imagination, speculative design, and planetary thinking as a way forward for higher education to reimagine and move towards more hopeful planetary futures. It examines hopepunk and solarpunk perspectives on possible futures to propose a design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education and educational technology with utopian imagination.

Wow!

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