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A SolarPunk campus

The student accommodation dominating – and about to dominate – the skyline of Exeter is pretty uninspiring if not totally bleak: Exeter ‘housing crisis’ sparked by ‘too many students’ – Devon Live How’s about a bit

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The last SP Sidmouth post took us to visions of Strasbourg – suggesting these could also be visions for Sidmouth: Is solarpunk ‘post-growth’? – Sidmouth Solarpunk Welcome to the world of Luc Schuiten: Schuiten’s designs,

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Sidmouth is not Strasbourg – but ‘repurposing buildings’ and allowing nature to ‘reclaim’ the streets could well be adapted to small town Devon: Solarpunk architect Luc Schuiten’s concept for how Strasbourg could look in a

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Art can help us reimagine the world: Art and imagining a more sustainable world – Sidmouth Solarpunk And there are plenty of artistic endeavours happening in these parts which “celebrate the natural beauty of our

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The SolarPunk movement began as a literary movement – and it’s going decidedly mainstream. This is on the New York Times recommended reading list this week: AFTERGLOW: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, edited by Grist. (The

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A SolarPunk Wiki

Wikipedia provides pretty ‘encyclopedic’ coverage of an ever-expanding universe: Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.[3][4] Solarpunk – Wikipedia There are lots of similarly shaped online encyclopedias. This

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It’s the look of SolarPunk as much as the ideas that marks the movement. Here’s an excellent overview of that: LUSH FANTASIES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOLARPUNK AESTHETIC Solarpunk is a literary genre, an aesthetic

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Interesting how solar installation firms are jumping on the solarpunk bandwagon. Great how the movement’s ideas are getting known! If you’re in the States, you might be interested: Exciting announcement… we just launched a Solarpunk

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The point the SolarPunk movement keeps pressing is that we don’t need to wait for technological salvation around the corner: we already have the technology we need to solve most of our problems. And this

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Solarpunk is realistic optimism about the future; so too is Lunarpunk… but differently. Kenneth Silber of the arts magazine Splice looks at the two: The Lure of Lunarpunk A new sci-fi subgenre and style mixes