solarpunk in higher education

Posted on February 11, 2024Comments Off on solarpunk in higher education

So many visions of the future are dystopian – but it doesn’t have to be that way:

How to progress from eco-anxiety to eco-action – Climate Awareness Partnership Sidmouth

It’s so important to help younger people from falling into a pit of despair about the future – and one way is through schools and universities:

solarpunk can inspire us to ways of rethinking education – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Here’s an inspiring and practical look at how that could be done – click on the link below for more:

Solarpunk as a way of redesigning higher education for the climate crisis

One well-known risk of working on climate change is depression. The topic presents so many terrible futures that dwelling in it can be mentally brutal.

In response to this grim issue, people have been offering hopeful ways of thinking about global warming. One of them became a design movement which strikes me as an antidote, and I’d like to introduce it and its implications for higher education in this post.

The design movement is called solarpunk...

Solarpunk as a way of redesigning higher education for the climate crisis | by Bryan Alexander | Medium

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