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 A Solarpunk Future, for example:

“Sorry, can’t hear you over the sound of a hopeful vision of the future where super advanced technology and humans live in harmony!!”

There’s a lot of inspiration coming from utopian fiction for imagining brighter futures – with this from Katy Nightingale’s ‘wandering thoughts’:

“Instead of completely escaping from reality, these books offer an alternative future with imaginative solutions to current problems.”

[“The future will only contain what we put into it today”, linocut print by Katy Nightingale]

Katy also turns to inspiring non-fiction read this summer – including The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More and The Contradictions of Revolution in the Kurdish Struggles amongst others.

And there are indeed plenty of others too giving glimpses of the solarpunk future:

“We already possess technologies that could create a world that’s more sustainable, prosperous and equitable than the world as it is today. What’s holding us back is that those technologies haven’t rolled out to the majority of humanity. But that day is coming, and when it arrives, our civilization will undergo a dramatic transformation.”

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