Literally, make-do-and-mend – but in a very cool and ‘modern’ way: When was the last time you mended something, like sewed on a button or darned a holey sock? Unless you’re a reader of a

Do you fancy making your own power station? The ‘solar punks’ turning their London street into a community power station Two artists in London are finding ingenious ways to fund a project that puts power

Here’s a piece from Kolkata from today – which starts in Arizona: Solarpunk: A brilliant subculture, its solutions and visions Just as in cyberpunk, where neon-lit cyberworld settings exist within contexts of rebellion and anarchy,

This spring on Earth Day, the Independent gave us a list of books to ‘help us understand climate change’ – and its top choice was a beautiful look at ‘braiding sweetgrass’: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin

‘SolarPunk Girl’ Phoebe Tickell’s Twitter-feed is always stimulating and always worth a look. Here she is today, looking at a key concept of our time [growth] and its counter-concept [degrowth]: Phoebe Tickell on Twitter: “The

A new animation is just out: “Strange World,” the world may be super-weird, but those who populate it are some of the most realistic and well rounded that Walt Disney Animation Studios has ever presented.

Some great articles on what SolarPunk is all about – from another perspective: Open Source Societies – Anarcho Solarpunk Off Grid Internet Use Cases – Anarcho Solarpunk Solarpunk: Diverging Paths And Where We Go From

A criticism of Solarpunk is that it’s just ‘pure fantasy’. Maybe, but here’s a closer look, from last month: What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement

With the collapse of a cryptocurrency, further questions are emerging: Why did one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges just collapse? | Molly White | The Guardian Such as, how does SolarPunk – which is

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