#bright future

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

[effyeffa]

when adrianne lenker said i wanted so much for magic to be real. been searching for your eyes all i see is blue skies. we could watch a show, we could watch a garden grow, we could grow old, you could come in from the cold, just say what it is that you want. to the ocean of your love i am a river. stove light glows like a fire, we're sitting on the kitchen floor, just when i thought i couldn't feel more, i feel a little more. you turn me inside out and then you want me outside in, you spin me all around and then you ask me not to spin. teach cheat part trap, you have my heart i want it back, god dog devil lived, the giver takes the taker gives. i feel god here and there, people tell me it's everywhere. a thousand years or more and i've never seen this face, never heard this voice before. oh giver of empathy, it is a gift so bitter that you brought to me. you came in like some good things do, out of nowhere, dream come true. i wish i'd waved when i saw you, i just watched you passing by.

[solarpunkwarlock]

I really want to talk about how important it is for us as a people to start making proper city design a priority. I also want to talk about how the privatization of land is the first major barrier to having proper city design.

A lot of seemingly complex issues and tasks can be simplified or made easier to deal with by organizing our cities: Food distribution, commute times, housing, neighborhood safety, public transportation, business/practice regulation, emergency preparedness, general accessibility, mental health, access to medical services, public health, and probably a ton of other things I can't think of right now.

All of that and more could be made much easier if we organized our cities with things like mixed-use-development, the standardization of public transport over personal vehicles, a grid structure, prioritizing walkability on surfaces safe for the disabled (sidewalks over cobblestone), designating districts for certain kinds of services, mandating better minimum (and maximum) size requirements for homes, requiring a certain percentage of greenery or some form of nature for every square footage, and other tactics that I'm probably not even aware of since I'm no city planner.

All of this gets shit on when land can be privately owned, though. Businesses, rich folks, the greedy, and the ignorant buy land without any planning in mind for their community which leads to disorganized, unoptimized, and community-unfriendly cities/towns. Our efforts should always generally lead to the betterment of our community over the selfish betterment of our private circumstances.

[thrivingisthegoal]

Here is an AMAZING piece on Solarpunk, it's abilities, and how it applies to our world written by Dr. Spencer Scott. I got to meet Spencer and his husband at their farm Solarpunk Farms in January of this year, and that experience is still something I hold super close to my heart. Highly recommend this reading, as well as everything else he's written, 10/10. You don't have to subscribe to solarpunk to enjoy it!

[ohmanareyoucereal69]

[wonderful-time-in-the-multiverse]

Hey

What's your favorite analog horror?

Mine are these!

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[undercotton-andcalicoes]

this song could not have come out at a better time. the shift from you could write me someday and i think you will to i bet you will to i hope you will oh it’s so over for me

[batterknowsbetter]

Ive decided to wait, after all. 10 years or even 20 I`m going to wait for you.

[good-morning-captain-crunch]

Adrianne Lenker - Fool

[justalittlesolarpunk]

There is hope. I promise. Young people just won their case against the state of Montana. Ecuadoreans braved escalating political violence to vote against oil drilling in the Amazon. Brazilian deforestation is down by enormous amounts since Lula took office. They’ve invented hydropanels that synthesise pure water from the air. People are farming in solar parks. A ship just launched for its maiden voyage using rigid sails designed to mimic wind turbine blades. EV sales are taking off, and, more crucially, cities are re-assessing their very relationship with the car. By the 2024 Olympics the river Seine will be safe for people to swim in again. More and more people are replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps. Solarpunks are growing crops in their back garden and distributing them to their neighbours. Great tracts of land are being given back to nature. Young people are channelling their energies into meaningful careers. Pilots are leaving the aviation industry. Yes, the world is dark and terrible and full of awful dangers that keep you up at night, but we are a huge movement that grows every day in numbers and power. Your small actions matter. Our collective triumphs are increasing. Things are going to get harder, extreme weather will be more common, but with ingenuity, resilience and crucially, COMMUNITY, we can build an equitable world on this strange, tired old planet. See you in the future.

[naturegirl555]

Adrianne lenker’s new album coming out today and Joni Mitchell back on Spotify. I’m gonna actually loose my mind. Truly. This is the day I go batshit bonkers!

[positivitypeeps]

Whoever you are

Wherever you are.

Whatever it is.

Never lose hope.

Keep on fighting.

Take down the oppressors.

Build a better future.

[empty-styrofoam]

Like a moth into the sun, I flew in front of everyone and burned up in the flame.

[simstoyourdismay]

don’t mind me i’m just gonna go dissipate in a corner over there

[rebel13lion39]

My mailbox was blessed on this day.

I'm literally a trained graphic designer, and I could never dream of this level of wtfuckery.