🌞 Solarpunk 🌻

• This is a partial mirror of my HTTPS site, https://softerfutures.neocities.org/. I'm not stealing from someone else.

About

This is a place to learn about Solarpunk, find related media, education and ideas!

Disclaimers

Just because I put a resource here doesn't mean I agree/condone with everything it states or the people making it. Especially since some of it will be conflicting. I wanted to provide a wide variety of information/media and leave the parsing up to you.

I'm not an expert on anything, I am just sharing information.

What is Solarpunk?

Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to the countercultural, post-capitalist, and decolonial enthusiasm for creating such a future. -Wikipedia.org

• One thing to note is that it also include activism and real world changes/solutions to the above issues mentioned.

Solarpunk 101

=> missolivialouise's original tumblr post - one of the first recorded mentions and definitions of solarpunk
=> Solarpunk Art tumblr - for an idea of the aesthetic
=> Solarpunks.net and their Reference Guide.
=> Re Des - A Spanish language Solarpunk site.
=> @Solarpunk_Bot - Bot that retweets mentions of Solarpunk for anyone who wants to keep up with the topic and conversations around it. (Twitter)
=> @Solarpunk_Bot (Nitter)
=> Andrewisms' Solarpunk Youtube Playlist
=> General Youtube Playlist
=> r/solarpunk
=> My Solarpunk Pinterest Board

=> Educational Resources (WIP)

Entertainment

Art/Animation

=> Jessica Perlstein
=> J. Queiroz
=> KOUR — Resistor of Sorcery, Naturally (Youtube)

Prose Fiction and Reviews/Recommendations

A Non Exhaustive Reading List

• Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragons Anthology
• Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
• Sunshine Superhighway
• Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures
• Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot series
• World Weaver Press - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastic Stories in a Sustainable World, Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures

=> A lot of works are listed here: Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (psu.edu)
=> Daughters of the Apocalypse - PenUltimate Productions (weebly.com)

Online

=> Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction | Ecofictology with Lovis Geier (Youtube review channel) | Solarpunk Magazine | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine | Solarpunk Press - Audiofiction, there was once a website but it is no longer active

Misc

=> TV Tropes Solarpunk Page

Personal Sites/Blogs/Etc

=> Solar Cyber Punk - A small adventure into growing your own crops and herbs in a limited space
=> Coolguy