We are now learning that stories can be powerful tools to change organizations. And indeed we know how a powerful story can inspire people to change. In particular, we are realising how storytelling boosts environmental impact and engagement:

There’s too much of the over-complex, out-of-bounds technology and not enough hands-on stuff. How about using LEGO as inspiration? A wee robot to ‘find the perfect place for a plant to take root’? Solarpunk BOTanist

Envisioning the future is a good start if we want to get the sort of future that we actually want – and there are more and more, particularly young, people looking to their Dream For

The solarpunk aesthetic is key to the ethos of this burgeoning movement – as there can be a real power to an aesthetic: Known for its burgeoning stock of illustrations depicting futuristic cities spilling with vegetation, radical

A lot of movies about the future are decidedly dystopian – but there are counters to this genre and we could indeed call them Solarpunk movies. There is even a Solarpunk vision embedded in the

This year’s Design for Planet Festival from the Design Council was pretty impressive. It was all about “repurpose, repair and retrofit”: Design for Planet Positive Business. Showing that design can help businesses prosper whilst also regenerating the

A follower of the Sidmouth SolarPunk snippets has sent in a suggestion for “local electricity production” – and because it’s so quirky and so clever, it has to have a feature of its own. As

Earlier this year, Stephen Gossett and Brennan Whitfield writing for the builtin website gave an excellent overview of the Solarpunk movement. Here are a few choice excerpts: The sunny, internet-born solarpunk aesthetic continues to evolve

Solarpunk started out as a genre of imaginative writing – but the SolarPunk aesthetic and movement is now more than science fiction, although, as with Disney going SolarPunk recently, all these different creative worlds can combine in startling

Solarpunk is a rather difficult thing to pin down – other than it’s about exploring realistic, positive futures where we put respecting and working with the planet at the centre of our visions. For example: