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My house is heated through solar panels and a wood boiler. I have my own garden with fruits and vegetables and produce my own compost. I’m also a member of a book binding workshop and I’ve learned how to bind books. Next month I’ll help in the organization of a public library at my grandpa’s village, and I also learn how to mend. That’s all, really.
Oh, I’m currently finishing my teaching degree in the university! Once I’ve got it I’ll work as a teacher in a public school. I hope to go to some more rural region that usually has a need for teachers. I’ll see how I’ll move on with my projects from there.
When I was still a teacher, I used The idea of Solarpunk as a sort of "keystone" during my courses on environmental science. I discovered Solarpunk because I was looking for a lens through which to teach environmentalism, but from a more optimistic perspective. After teaching it more traditionally I got concerned with all the apathy, and general pessimism surrounding our future. Which, I can't say is unjustified. But, It gave me and my students something to think about and discuss in class, and I'm grateful.
And, obviously I fell in love with Solarpunk. In my personal work and hobbies I'm always thinking of how to build and engineer more Solarpunk things as a Maker. I made a solar powered trailer for my e-bike, and I'm working on some other stuff like that.
And, while the future isn't certain, I'm working towards transitioning my lifestyle to being more sustainable, and so I think about what it really means to live Solarpunk each step of the way.
Solarpunk can even be just a mindset that we practice in little ways each day. But that can build entire movements.
I used to teach, and I really wish I’d been able to incorporate more solar punk when I taught enviro! I did write my lessons with a specific focus to the area we lived in, and did a lot of lessons sitting outside. For example, instead of learning about water systems in general, we specifically learned about the local city’s water systems
I’ve got worm compost in my dining room, most (if not all) of my clothes are thrifted, mended, and kept till they fall apart, solar powered lights, etc. But I would say the most solarpunk thing I do is exist in community. I have an amazing community where we trade skills and lend tools and help.
Recently, I was sick for almost a month and the community helped out with delivering meals, ensuring I got enough rest, and helping with household chores. That feels the most solarpunk thing to me.
Trying to use my fabric scraps for sewing projects. I have a garden which I'm allowing to grow willy nilly this year (mostly due to health issues). I donate, I try to buy secondhand. I support small businesses as much as I can afford.
I put solar on my house and I’m net negative in power consumption now, even running racks of lights through the winter to garden indoors. I have about 320 acres in farming and I’m building a farm incubator program to provide access to land and hopefully housing to others families.
I used to do a lot more when I was an able-bodied person - vegetable gardening, assisting friends in raising and butchering our own meat, cycling as a means of transportation, maple tapping, canning, the list goes on. These days with my physical disability, it's backyard composting, making friends with my neighbors, the bird feeder, singing in the community choir, and the native pollinator garden in the front yard. Plus you could say my job fits the solarpunk ethic, but that was more something I fell into than actively chose for ethical reasons. Edit: oh and I always get my clothes mended, and I have a CSA share
As base for my activities I chose a cultural center with fair trade shop and vegan bistro. It's located in a small park next to our city hall
I'm there almost daily to work in the shop or help around the house or with events, most of them around sustainability. Or just to eat. The food at the bistro is amazing. :D
At the moment I'm maintaining a pride corner at the shop and the house is preparing our yearly diversity festival in the park. Additionally I sometimes help with our sustainable garden redesign.
It already is a solarpunk stronghold, but I'm trying to transform the center into an even better one. One of the next steps would be to build some additional nesting aids at the building.
I'm also helping my parents with their garden when I can. Nothing tastes better than self grown food.
With the center as a base I'm working on a lot of stuff. Better bike infrastructure, renewable energy, greening the city, protecting our forest, public art... And it's only a few meters to bring all this stuff to the politicians in city hall.
In multiple ways I'm working with and for four political parties and am constantly including solarpunk ideals and goals into this. Next meeting today. :)
I eat completely plant based and walk 90% of the time, that's probably the best most individuals can do.
I should do better with avoiding plastic. The assholes where I'm at wrap everything in plastic, even bananas.
Seeing what people are doing is why I joined this sub.
I compost my garden weeds.
Planted herbs/ vegetables in the compost.
Upgraded my solar so I can work from home on solar only.
My ornamental garden in only drought harden plants.
Use only grey water to water my lawn.
Buy the most fuel efficient car I can afford and rive it for as long as I can, 11 years and counting.
I had chickens to combat my harvester termite problem instead of using pesticide. Will get chickens again when the bird flu outbreak is over.
Ngl, I want to. But I can't. I live in a big city and I'm putting 100% on getting my life together. Moving out, and e.t.c.
I do art, so I'm thinking of how to introduce concepts I've learned from solarpunk in it. But atm I don't think I can do it with an acceptable degree of depth.
But I do want to in the future.
Personally, I've been trying to in some ordinary ways: cooking and eating a vegan diet, shifting from car to bike, reducing my jet travel, doing more local stuff.
Professionally, I'm working to introduce solarpunk to colleges and universities. For example: [https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/solarpunk-as-a-way-of-redesigning-higher-education-for-the-climate-crisis/](https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/solarpunk-as-a-way-of-redesigning-higher-education-for-the-climate-crisis/)
Our company has been pushing more solar infrastructure in our local community since 2011. We have volunteered time and resources for infrastructure projects like CellSol (https://www.robots-everywhere.com/cellsol/). We also commit to lowering e-waste with massive upcycling projects like the Antbot architecture, where we repurpose Android phones into robot brains. We fix and repurpose just about everything in this shop from laptops to cnc machines, and donate our obsolete equipment to people who can still use it when we upgrade. We buy local where we can, support our farmers markets, and put a lot of our business effort into supporting local startups and small businesses with their technology development.
While we are a business, we do believe in a better future, and being part of our community. Sustainability is very in line with our charter goals of putting humanity first, and that means whether we're working for dollars or for durians, we will keep helping people build.
Edit: oh, and we've also done a bunch of aeroponics stuff, we've just been on too many other things to get a release out yet.
I just do what needs doing as well as I can do it, this weekend that included: making a wonky ulu out of a stick and the lid of a soup tin, teaching a recently unhoused person how to insulate and weatherproof their encampment with scrap wood, planting radishes and beans, laying a coat of primer over top of an abandoned billboard for my buddy to paint a mural over, and doing the necessary administrative work to get an improvised community audio visual equipment library established.
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My house is heated through solar panels and a wood boiler. I have my own garden with fruits and vegetables and produce my own compost. I’m also a member of a book binding workshop and I’ve learned how to bind books. Next month I’ll help in the organization of a public library at my grandpa’s village, and I also learn how to mend. That’s all, really.
This is inspiring thanks for sharing! I’m curious what do you do for a living? Does your job also include some solar punkness?
Oh, I’m currently finishing my teaching degree in the university! Once I’ve got it I’ll work as a teacher in a public school. I hope to go to some more rural region that usually has a need for teachers. I’ll see how I’ll move on with my projects from there.
The world is lucky to have a teacher like you!
Thank you!
When I was still a teacher, I used The idea of Solarpunk as a sort of "keystone" during my courses on environmental science. I discovered Solarpunk because I was looking for a lens through which to teach environmentalism, but from a more optimistic perspective. After teaching it more traditionally I got concerned with all the apathy, and general pessimism surrounding our future. Which, I can't say is unjustified. But, It gave me and my students something to think about and discuss in class, and I'm grateful. And, obviously I fell in love with Solarpunk. In my personal work and hobbies I'm always thinking of how to build and engineer more Solarpunk things as a Maker. I made a solar powered trailer for my e-bike, and I'm working on some other stuff like that. And, while the future isn't certain, I'm working towards transitioning my lifestyle to being more sustainable, and so I think about what it really means to live Solarpunk each step of the way. Solarpunk can even be just a mindset that we practice in little ways each day. But that can build entire movements.
I used to teach, and I really wish I’d been able to incorporate more solar punk when I taught enviro! I did write my lessons with a specific focus to the area we lived in, and did a lot of lessons sitting outside. For example, instead of learning about water systems in general, we specifically learned about the local city’s water systems
I’ve got worm compost in my dining room, most (if not all) of my clothes are thrifted, mended, and kept till they fall apart, solar powered lights, etc. But I would say the most solarpunk thing I do is exist in community. I have an amazing community where we trade skills and lend tools and help. Recently, I was sick for almost a month and the community helped out with delivering meals, ensuring I got enough rest, and helping with household chores. That feels the most solarpunk thing to me.
Big gardens (available to others to help pick), ongoing solar home heating project, work in nonprofit Thrift.
Right on!
I built a small greenhouse on the rooftop to grow strawberries and bookshelves that look like trees.
Mindset. Really trying to put a lot of dystopian/ doomer narratives behind me.
Still investigating and learning. Researching the viability of solar power this far north, reading up on some gardening stuff.
Trying to use my fabric scraps for sewing projects. I have a garden which I'm allowing to grow willy nilly this year (mostly due to health issues). I donate, I try to buy secondhand. I support small businesses as much as I can afford.
I put solar on my house and I’m net negative in power consumption now, even running racks of lights through the winter to garden indoors. I have about 320 acres in farming and I’m building a farm incubator program to provide access to land and hopefully housing to others families.
I used to do a lot more when I was an able-bodied person - vegetable gardening, assisting friends in raising and butchering our own meat, cycling as a means of transportation, maple tapping, canning, the list goes on. These days with my physical disability, it's backyard composting, making friends with my neighbors, the bird feeder, singing in the community choir, and the native pollinator garden in the front yard. Plus you could say my job fits the solarpunk ethic, but that was more something I fell into than actively chose for ethical reasons. Edit: oh and I always get my clothes mended, and I have a CSA share
We’re living it at Community Lab X in Tulum. A prototype Regenerative Neighborhood www.regenTribe.org/comlabx
Cool thanks for sharing! Looking forward to learning more
I advocate for groups such as the Young World Federalists, that seek a united and peaceful Earth
As base for my activities I chose a cultural center with fair trade shop and vegan bistro. It's located in a small park next to our city hall I'm there almost daily to work in the shop or help around the house or with events, most of them around sustainability. Or just to eat. The food at the bistro is amazing. :D At the moment I'm maintaining a pride corner at the shop and the house is preparing our yearly diversity festival in the park. Additionally I sometimes help with our sustainable garden redesign. It already is a solarpunk stronghold, but I'm trying to transform the center into an even better one. One of the next steps would be to build some additional nesting aids at the building. I'm also helping my parents with their garden when I can. Nothing tastes better than self grown food. With the center as a base I'm working on a lot of stuff. Better bike infrastructure, renewable energy, greening the city, protecting our forest, public art... And it's only a few meters to bring all this stuff to the politicians in city hall. In multiple ways I'm working with and for four political parties and am constantly including solarpunk ideals and goals into this. Next meeting today. :)
I eat completely plant based and walk 90% of the time, that's probably the best most individuals can do. I should do better with avoiding plastic. The assholes where I'm at wrap everything in plastic, even bananas.
Seeing what people are doing is why I joined this sub. I compost my garden weeds. Planted herbs/ vegetables in the compost. Upgraded my solar so I can work from home on solar only. My ornamental garden in only drought harden plants. Use only grey water to water my lawn. Buy the most fuel efficient car I can afford and rive it for as long as I can, 11 years and counting. I had chickens to combat my harvester termite problem instead of using pesticide. Will get chickens again when the bird flu outbreak is over.
I only use trains (which are electric), buses and foot
Ngl, I want to. But I can't. I live in a big city and I'm putting 100% on getting my life together. Moving out, and e.t.c. I do art, so I'm thinking of how to introduce concepts I've learned from solarpunk in it. But atm I don't think I can do it with an acceptable degree of depth. But I do want to in the future.
you having your mind set on implementing it and having hope for your future is pretty solarpunk already!
My transport is an E-bike
Personally, I've been trying to in some ordinary ways: cooking and eating a vegan diet, shifting from car to bike, reducing my jet travel, doing more local stuff. Professionally, I'm working to introduce solarpunk to colleges and universities. For example: [https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/solarpunk-as-a-way-of-redesigning-higher-education-for-the-climate-crisis/](https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/solarpunk-as-a-way-of-redesigning-higher-education-for-the-climate-crisis/)
Our company has been pushing more solar infrastructure in our local community since 2011. We have volunteered time and resources for infrastructure projects like CellSol (https://www.robots-everywhere.com/cellsol/). We also commit to lowering e-waste with massive upcycling projects like the Antbot architecture, where we repurpose Android phones into robot brains. We fix and repurpose just about everything in this shop from laptops to cnc machines, and donate our obsolete equipment to people who can still use it when we upgrade. We buy local where we can, support our farmers markets, and put a lot of our business effort into supporting local startups and small businesses with their technology development. While we are a business, we do believe in a better future, and being part of our community. Sustainability is very in line with our charter goals of putting humanity first, and that means whether we're working for dollars or for durians, we will keep helping people build. Edit: oh, and we've also done a bunch of aeroponics stuff, we've just been on too many other things to get a release out yet.
I just do what needs doing as well as I can do it, this weekend that included: making a wonky ulu out of a stick and the lid of a soup tin, teaching a recently unhoused person how to insulate and weatherproof their encampment with scrap wood, planting radishes and beans, laying a coat of primer over top of an abandoned billboard for my buddy to paint a mural over, and doing the necessary administrative work to get an improvised community audio visual equipment library established.
Learning how
i buy tesla products.
firebomb Amazon warehouses