It’s the look of SolarPunk as much as the ideas that marks the movement. Here’s an excellent overview of that: LUSH FANTASIES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOLARPUNK AESTHETIC Solarpunk is a literary genre, an aesthetic

Interesting how solar installation firms are jumping on the solarpunk bandwagon. Great how the movement’s ideas are getting known! If you’re in the States, you might be interested: Exciting announcement… we just launched a Solarpunk

The point the SolarPunk movement keeps pressing is that we don’t need to wait for technological salvation around the corner: we already have the technology we need to solve most of our problems. And this

Solarpunk is realistic optimism about the future; so too is Lunarpunk… but differently. Kenneth Silber of the arts magazine Splice looks at the two: The Lure of Lunarpunk A new sci-fi subgenre and style mixes

We need to be embracing solar energy – so says Raphael Heffron from the University of Dundee: “We’ve been fed the assumption that oil, coal, and gas give us energy security for many years, but

Is a robotic mower really an example of how to go solarpunk? On one hand, you want to be a resilient off-grid solarpunk freed from the yoke of your increasingly-unreliable power company. On the other,

Looking to the future, here’s a new book out from Gregory Claeys: In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required,

Solarpunk was ‘born’ with these notes in 2014: 2014 – Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto – Adam Flynn – Dominios, públicos y acceso Or perhaps it ‘started’ in 2008… or 2011: While the idea of

Solarpunk has been around for years – but is only just really gathering traction and beginning to enter the wider public imagination. Here’s an introduction to the movement from, now, over five years ago: Punks

What books did you get for Christmas? Any Sci-fi? Any Solarpunk fiction? How Eco-Fiction Became Realer Than Realism Encompassing everything from the ecosystems novel to sci-fi, a growing body of literature is imagining and interrogating