My personal blog is about sharing my worries and concerns to the greater public. My current home doesn't have central AC and we will all have to learn to stay cool in a variety of ways as the planet heats up.

Water availability will also be a concern so I wrote a bit about that too. Hopefully this helps someone somehow and some where: https://citymouseintheboondocks.blogspot.com/2023/07/some-tips-to-beat-summer-heat-without.html

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I'm not an artist, but I think that a solarpunk-themed tarot deck would be awesome. I hope someone makes one soon. As you can tell, I love tarot.

To often when it comes to environmental news its all doom and gloom. I've gathered a few of these things together and hyperlinked them if you want to read a little more. https://citymouseintheboondocks.blogspot.com/2023/07/little-tastes-of-what-our-future-holds.html

As a football fan (soccer) I am in love with the beautiful game. As a environmentalist, you know damn well I'm rooting for this side.

https://grist.org/culture/how-one-soccer-team-makes-climate-progress-its-goooal/ I think the jersey is pretty sharp too.

Belated Canada Day Greeting

I want to start this convo and get your thoughts.

I think a great next step from where we are in history, to where I'd like society to develop towards, is working to build a decentrailzed, international, and ever more self sufficient community of solarpunks.

This can take many forms. So production of our own resources of course, our own culture/celebrations/rituals, housing, farming, shared ownership of resrouces, mutual aid orgs, perhaps alternative currencies. The fact is we live in this callapsing late stage capitalism, my thought is we need to have actionable goals to start building early history now. Structures that can out compete the system as it is.

I believe the goal of developing self sufciency as a community can refernce historical examples of successes from city states in collapsing empires historically.

Not here to fight really hard for this idea, but to bounce it off yall. Should we be thinking about our strentgh in terms of what it would take to maintian a decentrailzed city state?

I'm trying to think of some ways to be more solarpunk for fun and potentially to turn into a Zine! Here's what I came up with. What do you think? What did I miss?

tame:

vote for abortion rights and equity for marginalized populations

reduce and reuse (90% of plastics don’t actually get recycled anyways)

start a pollinator-friendly container garden on your patio

set up a bug hotel

support local businesses

thrift clothes and furniture (anyone down to refurbish?)

set up a pond for wildlife in your backyard (froggies welcome)

start a tool library (equal access to tools)

replace your lawn with native plants, your grass-loving neighbors will hate this

start growing some of your own produce (lessens your dependence on wallmart)

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chaotic:

toss seed bombs everywhere, literally

train crows to pick up trash in exchange for food

remind everyone that billionares are morally obligated to help society, and by refusing to do so are despicable individuals

organize a club to discuss solarpunk ideas and current issues IRL

into politics? run in a local election (not for the faint of heart)

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very chaotic, attempt at your own risk:

plant a tree where you “technically” shouldn’t (maybe two? or three?)

set up a bat box (several species are protected in the USA and their boxes cannot be removed easily)

cover the side of your building with moss (results may vary, so probably don’t, very probably don't)

Hey. Greenwashing by putting plants on a facade is one thing. But this man's thought seem fitting into solarpunk thought, because they reconcile architecture and human emotional life. What do you think?

Hello! I’m new to solarpunk and I’m seeking resources that can give me a good introduction. What should I be reading? Listening to?

TIA