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
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We need alternatives to cement: As demonstrated in the Chatham House report, while cement (an essential element for concrete manufacturing) is extremely detrimental to the greenhouse effect and climate crisis –representing about 8% of global CO2
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Here’s a practical application of the ideas around ‘biophilia’: One of the aims of the solarpunk movement, it seems, is to keep the dystopian cityscapes of Blade Runner and The Fifth Element at bay… An antidote to this abundance
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The science programme manager of the One Earth website, Spencer Scott, looked to the idea of “solarpunk” at the end of last year: In a recent article, we delved into the concept of an ecological civilization,
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Renting has its disadvantages – for example, when it comes to living as a tenant by the coast, when sea levels rise, so does your rent. When it comes to hiring a car as a tourist,
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There are some fabulous videos out there explaining what SolarPunk is all about. Here’s the first in a series. It takes various visual tropes – from advertising to Hollywood and beyond – and suggests how
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Solarpunk can be viewed from many angles – and articles which try to look at all of them can be somewhat too long and rather overwhelming, so that readers just don’t get the point of
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Here’s a very interesting look at Solarpunk – and how it could be made more ‘ambitious’ with the promise of “a world where energy too cheap to meter unlocks technology that is indistinguishable from magic”:
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Some thoughts for this time of year: The Charlie Brown Christmas special, in which Charlie struggles to cope with the rampant commercialization of the season. The Peanuts’ strong consensus is that they need “a great, big,
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To realise a sustainable future, do we need big technology and big investment in new directions – or is what we now have enough? We have the technology we need – Sidmouth Solarpunk Here’s a