Solarpunk Snippets

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

Solarpunk Snippets

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

Solarpunk Snippets

Solarpunk Snippets

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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Solarpunk India

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 –

Solarpunk Snippets

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

Solarpunk Snippets

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

Solarpunk Snippets

Solarpunk Snippets

solarpunk dreams

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

Solarpunk Snippets