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!
… Today, after a press conference where an “America Leads the World in Testing” banner hung in plain view — presumably to advertise our 39th-place world ranking in tests per million population — Donald Trump fielded questions with all the aplomb of a leaky bowel during a pepper eating contest.
Two of his biggest nemeses, CBS News’ Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, dared challenge the High Suzerain of Not-My-Fault, whereupon Trump did the Man-baby Mambo off the dais. …
Monday brought us the cuckoo bananas press conference that was yet another example of a fascistic, mind-washing propaganda campaign by the Trump administration. Posed between two posters telling everyone that America was doing super awesome at pandemic-ing, Trump showed off testing equipment and explained how fantastic his administration was doing in handling the COVID-19 pandemic—now that 80,000 Americans have died over the past three months from the virus.
At the end of Trump’s bizarre press conference, CBS News’ White House correspondent Weijia Jiang asked why Trump was boasting about how much better the U.S. was doing than other countries, when Americans were still dying by the thousands every day. This did not go over well with the defensive Trump because a.) he doesn’t like answering tough questions, and b.) he is very threatened by women who are willing to ask him very tough questions. …
if ur being charged notify the anarchist black cross. theyre a team of law experts who provide free-of-charge legal help for anarchists and other leftists if they get arrested at protests.
they operate in the us, the netherlands and ukraine. in germany theres the “rote hilfe” (red help) who take on abcs responsibilities.
always note down a trusted persons phone number on ur body in permanent marker AND COVER THAT SHIT UP. the reason we do this is bc coppers will confiscate ur phone
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