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

SolarPunk and solar energy are interlinked – and both have huge promise. Here are a few extracts from a piece which starts in Puerto Rico after this summer’s hurricanes: Solar power has taken root in