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It’s April, and that means there’s less than a month until Solarpunk Action Week 2021 (April 25th-May 1st)! 

Have you made your plans yet? Do you have plans for a veg garden? Are any groups near you planning May Day actions? Do you have an affinity group or a buddy? Are you connected to your local mutual aid group yet? Will you be doing any DIY projects or direct action? 

Let us know in the replies! We’ll be sharing your responses on this blog to inspire others, and of course sharing your actions too! If you need inspiration, scroll through our blog a bit to see the resources we’ve shared and all the actions from in previous years

A better world is possible! Let’s build it together!

I've been preparing for few things to do during the week

• tutorial on how I usually make pants
• silk paper sun catchers
• party decorations
• milk carton mini greenhouses
• something for my “pimp my tradition” folk costume project
• embroidered patches
• guerilla art
• take #2 on growing mushrooms
• clothing designing
• solarpunk picnic!

I don’t plan on doing all of these, I’ve (hopefully) learned my lesson on planning for more than I have spoons for, but these are options of what I could do and what I have done some preparations for.

Ooo, this’ll be my first SPAW! here‘s some things I’m planning:

- plant more things in my garden (I want to focus on attracting more butterflies as pollinators because someone that lives near my garden is deathly allergic to bees)

- mend some clothes (thrift store jeans and a cardigan)

- hem a corduroy skirt to be knee-length

- cinch the waist of most of my jeans

- try to make more teas w the stuff from my garden

- finally finish that book on environmental policy

- make a bee bath!

- try out that moss milkshake paint thing… that’s mainly for me, it just looks rlly neat

- try out different water saving techniques and see what works

and that’s about it! If anyone has any more suggestions for what I can do, I’d always appreciate hearing them!

I have some mending I plan to do on a blanket I like. I ordered some trees through the Arbor Day Foundation that I should be recieving/planting around that time. I am also hoping to be able to get my rain garden together with native plants from my the sale my local conservation center puts on annually ♡ I will also be cruising arpund my neighborhood on my bicycle to pick up some of the litter (it is constant because I live on a school road).

I was supposed to me at my place for the week but I’m gonna be with my mom who will be recovering from surgery instead, so no planting the garden for me unfortunately. But, it does mean I have a captive audience in my mother, who went to art school for fashion design, as I learn how to mend clothing.

Plus, it gives me some time to finish my book on ecosocialism AND have some conversations with my pretty conservative family.

Let’s see if I can get my ass in gear enough to put together some of those woodshop projects I’ve been keeping around since spaw last year… pallet bench; suburito; maybe fix up the shed ramp if I get real frisky

the bench is for donating to a bus stop near my house. plus I have some parts to give to the local bike co-op.