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Science, Education, Exploration, Design. 実 Actualizing the #solarpunk #postcapitalist commons. #DeSci. Free community fab lab café forming on Kalapuya Land / Oregon!✨🌱🌈🌻 solarpunkseed.net

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NEW VIDEO: What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might it play in our lives?

Tap in for the full video:
youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4

11.03.2026 20:20 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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A world with libraries of things - Futures in Draft Trinbagonian writer, YouTuber and artist Andrew Sage explores the possibilities of a world with libraries of things.

Hey folks, just wanted to share that I got to be part of this webseries called "Futures in Draft" by Storythings to talk about library economies! Here's the link to my episode. Other explorations of our possibilities are coming soon! 👇🏽

futuresindraft.com/a-library-of...

09.03.2026 13:13 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Solarpunkification 2026: | Solar Punkification

partiful - partiful.com/e/XMCy9DRvQO...
eventbrite - www.eventbrite.com/e/solarpunki...
facebook - www.facebook.com/events/85504...
website - www.solarpunkification.art/about-4

05.03.2026 15:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Solarpunkification 2026 at San Francisco's Historic Mabuhay Gardens Experience Solarpunkification 2026 at San Francisco's historic Mabuhay Gardens (March 6-8). Join us for a 3-day festival of art, regenerative futures, and joy!

Solarpunkification 2026!
March 6-8, San Francisco, CA USA
Solarpunks, artists, musicians, regenerative futurists, systems thinkers, designers, creatives, technologists, & community builders come together to explore a working laboratory for the futures we actually want to live in. 🌱🌈🌞
#solarpunk #sf

05.03.2026 15:00 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
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Kirsten Zirngibl - HAIbrid Design - Lecture (2024) Keynote given on Sept 13, 2024 at the Ringling AI Symposium. This talk is a whirlwind overview of generative AI tech and its role in design/production, with a focus on world building for the enterta...

Definitely absolutely possible! Some tech-positive artists have also been creating custom Stable Diffusion models from their own work, like Kirsten Zirngibl and Android Jones. www.kirstenzirngibl.com/projects/K3k...

25.02.2026 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Stable Diffusion & other open source AI can be run locally on a laptop. Each model & LORA has different training data, can also do custom. We stopped using Midjourney when revealed they were aggressively nonconsensually training on (+ not crediting) tons of working artists (some I know personally!).

25.02.2026 10:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Imagining a Writer’s Toolkit for Hopeful Climate Futures from Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination

Fresh off the wire: a toolkit for speculative fiction writers interested in imagining hopeful climate futures: climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/imagining-...

03.02.2026 20:35 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The critiques & explorations of AI ethics are definitely good. AI can be localized, ecological, low impact. Models ideally don't train on artists' work without consent, + they should be able to opt in/out. I do think AI can help visualize, actualize, & tend vibrant solarpunk postcapitalist futures!🌱

25.02.2026 10:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Living Array - Aero Ambient Music for Awareness
The Living Array - Aero Ambient Music for Awareness YouTube video by Athena IV

The Living Array - by Athena IV

17.02.2026 04:28 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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From Protest to Prototypes Why lasting change in the age of AI will come less from opposition and demands, and more from building parallel institutions that quietly replace what no longer serves us.

Systems don't disappear because they are criticized; they disappear when they are no longer necessary. 🦋

In the age of AI, building a working prototype is the most effective form of protest. Let’s move from demands to system design.

mutualhorizons.manifoldclub.com/posts/from-p... #Solarpunk #DAOs

09.02.2026 11:48 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Brighter Age | Frutiger Aero Ambience
A Brighter Age | Frutiger Aero Ambience YouTube video by Dreamfibre

Imagine a future shaped by optimism. A place where clean energy, open space, and thoughtful design coexist in peaceful harmony. "A Brighter Age" is a meditation on the futures we once imagined, and perhaps still can.
@dreamfibre.bsky.social

08.02.2026 22:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Arco fucking whips. One of my favorites of last year. Definitely see it if it’s playing near you.

www.cinelinx.com/movie-news/m...

29.01.2026 15:16 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Just saw it.. it's wonderful!🌈

30.01.2026 08:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just saw it.. it's wonderful!

30.01.2026 08:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Case for Solarpunk
The Case for Solarpunk YouTube video by SolarpunkAlana

In this video, Solarpunk Alana counters some criticisms of solarpunk - such as that it is just 'greenwashing' - and puts forwards her case for what a solarpunk world might look like across different categories.
@solarpunkalana.bsky.social

15.01.2026 19:33 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Future of Unions
The Future of Unions YouTube video by Andrewism

Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a whisper. Their mass mobilisation retreated into bureaucracy. Their gains rolled back by the most powerful ruling class in history.

Still, are unions our best hope?

youtu.be/RqtzjoY36W8

14.01.2026 20:02 👍 79 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 3
Can We Bring Back Community?
Can We Bring Back Community? YouTube video by Andrewism

NEW VIDEO: Thanks to our anti-social social order, many people are struggling with a lack of community in their lives. I believe we can change that. Let's revisit the village of the past, then sketch out a radical vision for the future of community.

youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q

12.11.2025 20:04 👍 100 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 2

This new album is so pleasant, like lounging in a forest amidst gentle rainfall, or enjoying a comforting meal in solace.

24.10.2025 17:35 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Introduction to Mutualism - The Architecture of Cooperation Exploring how Mutualism’s principles of self-organization, reciprocity, and shared governance can shape a cooperative economy in the age of AI and automation.

Automation scales efficiency. Mutualism scales cooperation.
If Post-Labor Economics is the why, Mutualism is the how.
The architecture of the future is cooperative. 🌞
Full essay: mutualhorizons.manifoldclub.com/posts/introd...
#PostLabor #Mutualism #AI #Cooperation

19.10.2025 12:10 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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It's all up to you.

#solarpunk #indiegame #namethatgame

07.10.2025 17:04 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Original post on writing.exchange

Have you heard about https://grist.org/fix/grist-50/2025/ ?

"The 2025 Grist 50 list highlights the work of 50 such people who are making a real difference and moving the needle. The impact they’re having in their communities and sectors shows that progress is still possible."

It's a shame […]

19.09.2025 18:29 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

01.10.2025 19:13 👍 924 🔁 237 💬 17 📌 31
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☀️ “Everybody has sun and everybody has wind and nobody can hoard it. Nobody can hold it in reserves. It’s there for all of us to use.” @billmckibben.bsky.social for The Light Won’t Dim documentary, now streaming on Youtube ⏯️ youtu.be/IDK-3RC5SgY

19.09.2025 18:11 👍 44 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 2
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The U.S. May Be Coming Around to Balcony Solar

So exciting to have Bright Saver & Plug-in Solar featured in today's @nytimes.com: "Plug-in solar, also known as balcony solar, refers to small-scale solar systems that can be installed without an electrician or without permission from a local utility." ☀️ 🎉
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/c...

13.08.2025 00:05 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
A futuristic white UFO-looking structure peeks out from a lush green forest jungle.

A futuristic white UFO-looking structure peeks out from a lush green forest jungle.

Hiroo Isono

22.09.2025 17:53 👍 860 🔁 234 💬 4 📌 5
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Community Change Directory Find community-owned and co-op organisations near you.

The capitalist system hurts everyone

Capitalism relies on our participation to continue

I don't want to give my money to billionaires any more

Co-ops are anti-capitalist by design

I want to find community-owned alternatives for where I spend my time and money.

I'm building this thing:

24.08.2025 14:28 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
ARCO - Official Teaser Trailer - In Select Theaters November 14
ARCO - Official Teaser Trailer - In Select Theaters November 14 YouTube video by NEON

Arco is a dazzling adventure filled with hope and optimism for our future. From breakout filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu, produced by Remembers’ Bienvenu and Felix de Givry, and mountainA’s Natalie Portman and Sophie Ma.

22.08.2025 15:29 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

For examples look up:

Videos by @andrewsage.bsky.social and @ourchangingclimate.bsky.social

Podcasts like
Bright Green Futures and Demand Utopia

Anthologies by @susankayequinn.bsky.social and @brightflame.bsky.social

And more like
@solarpunkstories.bsky.social and @solarpunkseed.bsky.social

15.08.2025 12:41 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Could this be a Solution to Gentrification?
Could this be a Solution to Gentrification? YouTube video by About Here

An exploration of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust
kmclt.ca
‪@kensingtonmkt.bsky.social

21.07.2025 14:11 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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LUMA_Trailer_GA STUDENT PROJECT made by Maylis DAVID, Inès PENAUILLE, Sarah FAROUKI, Radu SIRCU, Laurent KHAU, Alice HU, Louise OVIDE, Jaëlle ALSAC, Sacha PEDEZERT,…

I just learned about LUMA, a student project #film + #game heavily inspired by the #chobani #solarpunk ad:

https://vimeo.com/1091226153

https://vimeo.com/1090839342

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZlZKWX

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wrwv2g

#gameDev #animation #art

21.06.2025 07:33 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0