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!
On this day, 16 March 1964, 267,459 children in New York City boycotted classes in a second mass walkout in protest at de facto racial segregation in schools.
The number constituted 26% of registered pupils in the city, but marked a significant decline on the 45% who participated in the first action, and mostly reflected the participation just of Black students, as the main Puerto Rican civil rights group withheld its support.
Outside City Hall, speakers at the rally gave comments which alluded to the lack of support for the action from official civil rights organisations including the NAACP and the national leadership of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
The previous week, 15,000 white parents had demonstrated claiming that the city had gone “too far” in promoting integration.
Pictured: protesters during the first boycott that February https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1375817595936720/?type=3
2008 - Protesters burn the christmas tree in Syntagma square in Athens, Greece after 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered by the police. [video]
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