In the lead-up to COP27, Slate magazine took us between our responses: “hopeful and constructive sometimes, despairing at others”. Here we look at the hopeful: Sci-Fi’s Lessons for Balancing Climate Hope and Despair The U.N.’s COP27 climate
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Some positive visions for COP 27: Do you believe in climate solutions? You just might be a solarpunk. There are people all over the world who believe a just and sustainable world is possible. Maybe
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Some great ideas on how to build sustainably: The building industry is one of the biggest generators of carbon emissions, with some estimates suggesting that 38% percent of all CO2 emissions are linked to this field. As
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As observed by a local correspondent: “It brings loads of money in twice a year, this is what I think Solarpunk could do for Sidmouth”: Thousands of strikingly-dressed Goths descended on a sleepy English coastal
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There is something rather ‘solarpunk’ about the Sidmouth School of Art project: ART IS ABOUT DISCOVERING WHAT SOMETHING MEANS TO YOU AND EXPRESSING WHAT YOU THINK AND FEEL. The beautiful coastal town of Sidmouth provides the
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Here’s a look from this weekend at how robots can make life more sustainable and enjoyable: How solarpunk ideals can inspire the robots of tomorrow Focusing on human-centric design principles could help fulfil visions of
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Here’s an interesting movie, premiered at the Tate Modern earlier this month: Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi: REMOTE | Tate Modern It’s a solarpunk fantasy, both familiar and strange, in which a woman discovers an
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Solarpunk imagines an optimistic future where humans have overcome the major environmental and social crises of our time and in the process created a safe, just world powered by clean energy and organised around collaborative
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Interesting and provocative comparison of the oil shock of the 1970s with that of today: Energy shocks can have perverse consequences The now-dismantled dth-nul-energihus in suburban Copenhagen offers a vision of a future that never
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Here’s a guide to city transformation through Solarpunk. In this video we lay out a roadmap to how art and artivism for climate change in our cities can become a part of the urban design