I’ve always viewed the punk aspect as the DIY / grassroots combined with mutual aid / community building. Solarpunk is engineering students and tinkerers hanging out in maker spaces creating things that benefit everyone. Solarpunk is not engineers working for Tesla making shit for the 1%.
If you’re serious about reusing and recycling, you’re gonna find yourself curb picking, hanging out in dumpsters, at garbage dumps, in metal recycling facilities. If you’re super serious about the environment you’re gonna be chaining yourself up to trees, you’ll be at protests, you’ll be creating a ruckus. You’ll be creating.
I often think of solarpunk as a verb. It’s not something you are or are not, it’s something you do. A label is meaningless, that guerrilla garden you created, the community garden you nurture with your friends, your workplace that you helped to unionize - is not.
