Imagination is key to the revival of Britain’s seaside towns “Two years ago, a select committee report on regenerating seaside towns highlighted the success of Seaminster, a once-shabby resort that learned to make a virtue of its

From the New Economics Foundation’s regular podcast: Summer is here and Love Island is all over the telly. The show’s sexy singles are competing for big prize money, and the inevitable sponsorship deals with fast

The latest National Geographic asks: Can art help raise awareness about climate change? “Considering this unprecedented worst-case – but potentially realistic – scenario, how could we better raise awareness with optimism or even with poetry?

Solarpunk is very much in the news it seems. Here’s a long, long but very stimulating thread with discussion ongoing: A Solarpunk Manifesto | Hacker News And here’s a piece from the BBC just put

Very Solarpunk – and very Devon: “The Veitch Lamp Post Trail celebrates Exeter’s famous Veitch family of plant-hunters and the city’s proud history of engineering.   The route is a trail of lamp posts close

The Nation magazine has just run an issue devoted to utopia: The Nation Here’s from one piece: The genre of utopian fiction, born of frustration during periods of thwarted promise, is a uniquely sensitive barometer

Solarpunk was largely conceived as as science fiction genre. For several years now, Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination has been exploring the intersection between science and science fiction, using stories as a way

“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of

With thanks to El Pais: El futuro ‘solarpunk’ y otras enlaces | Politica | EL PAÍS Diego Saez Gil on Twitter: “This wonderful. We need more visions of techno-optimist regenerative futures! And love the Miyazaki

Billionaires in space is not very solarpunk: Musk, Bezos and Branson fueled by big egos in space race Branson, Bezos, Musk: The billionaire space race but what’s in it for us? | US News |