This still isn’t a serious place to find out information about Solarpunk – just a work in progress and should be used only as an aid to find out more.
Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and activist movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. — Wikipedia
Solarpunk originated in Brazil in the early 2000s. In 2008, a blog named Republic of the Bees published the post, “From Steampunk to Solarpunk“, beginning the conceptualization of solarpunk as a literary genre. In 2012, a short story collection published in Brazil, “Solarpunk: Histórias Ecológicas e Fantásticas em um Mundo Sustenavel“, gained more public attention, followed quickly by Solarpunk’s morph into an online art genre. — Alexandria Shaner in Resilience
• Permaculture
Regenerative Design (Solarpunk, Sociocracy, Permaculture)
ALXD – Solarpunk Prompts Podcasts about Solarpunk. Each “prompt” episodes takes an idea around which a work of fiction could be written. But the prompts are themselves an act of imagination, or stimulate it, and examines possibilities and implications, so that even if nothing gets written, has a value in itself.
“A bimonthly online publication of radically hopeful and optimistic science fiction and fantasy”
Susan Kaye Quinn “Susan is a Speculative Fiction author with a PhD Environmental Engineering who writes hopepunk climate fiction & solarpunk. She firmly believes being cozy/gentle/healing is radical & disruptive.”
Solarpunk – Notes toward a manifesto by Adam Flynn in Hieroglyph
Solarpunk is not about pretty aesthetics – it’s about the end of capitalism Vice article with many references to explore.
On the political dimensions of Solarunk Article by Andrew Dana Hudson (2015)
Solarpunk – Radical Hope Article by Alexandria Shaner in Resilience
Solarpunk – Against a Shitty Future Article by Rhys Williams (2018) in LA Review of Books
Solarpunk and Permaculture: Designing a Solar Future! Video narrated by Alessandro Ardovini
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020). While not mentioning (as I remember) Solarpunk, this novel embraces many of the ideas. Some reviews. The book is a bit of a mixed-bag, but succeeds at being thought-provoking.
More books (lists fiction and non-fiction)
Trom: A group that seeks alternatives to trade and capitalism.
Hackaday Blog about hacking spaces
Lowtech magazine – Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.
James Tomasino @tomasino@tilde.zone https://tomasino.org/ Initiator of “Solarpunk Prompts” (also on Geminii and Gopher)
‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat Guardian, 2024-03