How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!
And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!
Hey, can you give a crash course on safe internet browsing, for my young adult novel about an evil person who does nefarious things online, but doesn't want to get caught. I read through some of your posts- Linux, Tor, uBlock Origin, is there anything else important to make my book realistic?
That’s about all the big stuff, for general use! If you’re using Tor browser you don’t want to download any other extensions, since they won’t add any more privacy than you already get from Tor and have a risk of leaking information or giving you a more unique fingerprint. uBlock is good though since 1. Tails comes with it built-in, so a good portion of Tor users already use it (plus you using it makes it harder to tell who’s using Tails and who’s using standard Tor) and 2. blocking ads is just something everyone should be doing
Just don’t let anything you want to keep secret touch any software owned by facebook or google. Switch your default search engine to DuckDuckGo Tor. Get an encrypted email. Store anything sensitive that you have to have on your computer offline in text documents and the like, rather than on the cloud. Be careful what info you share and where
And the golden rule is, if it could be used to convict you of a crime, don’t let it near any device that can connect to the internet. Use writing and in-person communication instead. If something like that absolutely has to be done with a computer or on the internet, you should use Tails or Whonix - those are the heavy-duty tools. But remember that nothing is completely airtight
