Black Mirror season seven is now upon us. Charlie Brooker, ‘Black Mirror’ creator, reveals why the techno-dystopian show has gripped audiences: “the focus has tended to be in the show technology or modern society. There’s a sort of
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The strapline of this website suggests how we might approach the future: Others are suggesting the same – for example the New Scientist earlier in the year, showing why becoming the right kind of optimist can
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When looking at films of the future, we need to be looking beyond climate apocalypse. And there are more movies giving us a little more hope. So, with the scenes of ‘The Green Place of Many Mothers’,
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Whilst the SolarPunk aesthetic and movement is more than science fiction, there is a lot of solarpunk/cyberpunk science fiction which provide ‘playgrounds for thought experiments’. In other words, we can explore all sorts of issues around science
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It’s everywhere. We’ve seen Solarpunk in Arizona and Koltata. And there is indeed a lot of Solarpunk inspiration from the Subcontinent. A couple of years ago, the Telegraph India looked at a brilliant subculture, its solutions and visions –
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An interesting and inspiring place to go to discover what SolarPunk is all about is the Reddit social media page, where much of the movement started: Solarpunk – hope for the future Solarpunk is a
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There are some great ‘solarpunk’ stories currently playing out. For example, the combination of solar farms and sheep farms couldn’t be more ‘solarpunk’ in its creative weirdness, giving us whacky articles entitled Do solarpunks dream of
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Sidmouth Solarpunk looks at how Sidmouth might be ‘solarpunk’ – each responding to the other’s aesthetic (Art Deco/Nouveux, an abundance of green), sustainability aspirations (lots of activity on that front in the Sid Valley) and
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Dreams are good, but that doesn’t mean sticking our heads in the clouds. Here’s an intro to a talk by Jerry Springett on the history and future of Solarpunk at Human Entities Conference in Lisbon – organised by CADA
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There are several initiatives at work in the Sid Valley addressing the issues around climate change – including the Sidmouth Science Festival and the Climate Awareness Partnership Sidmouth project of course, as well as the likes of the Sidmouth