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It just turned midnight here so I guess it is #SolarPunkSunday and I'll plug my novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, about an old woman who has to organize the defense of her decentralized country when a colonizer invades to steal the technology that makes it a #solarpunk utopia. It's […]
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Filing this away for #SolarpunkSunday!
The dead leaves of last year's overgrown japanese irises cover a flower bed. Nearby on the right is a blue-handled rake.
A garden bed in various states of planting and growth, with labels indicating the intended crops: existing mixed coreopsis, new coreopsis, native sunflowers, and tall tithonia; the ground shows areas of exposed soil, dormant grass, and dried plant matter. There is a blue-handled rake at the top.
Be Aware When Spring "Cleaning"
🐞 Check your timing when you begin clearing garden areas in the spring. Beneficial insects may still be overwintering in growth and stems.
🍂 Pic 1: This area of dead, overgrown iris leaves is a good example of a spot to […]
[Original post on mindly.social]
So this #solarpunksunday you can get an advance readers copy of my new novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, on BookSirens. It's the story of an old woman who has to organize the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades, to steal a technology that makes her national a […]
PREPARE FOR HUMMINGBIRDS 🐦⬛
1️⃣ USians: Update Calendars for Appearances (Next 8 weeks)
🔸 Late February to mid-March: South Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
🔸 Early April: Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina
🔸 Mid-April: Oklahoma, Kansas […]
MINE TO MEALS
🥬 This month marks four years of harvesting from the NRG Dewey Prairie Garden, "part of a massive effort restore a 35,000-acre coal mine".
"The garden has yielded about 10,000 pounds of produce for six food pantries since it began harvesting." Nearby residents live in a 'food […]
NC ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS
for #SolarPunkSunday
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Communities Over Corporate Profits: How We Win (Mar 8, Durham)
www.ncconservationnetwork.org/events/communities-over-...
🌊 The 36th Annual Clean-Up-A-Thon (Mar 21, Haw River) […]
It #SolarPunkSunday so here is my new novella, about a 70year old woman, probably autistic and struggling to fit in because her village has a very tight sense of community. To avoid being seen as reclusive, she accepts a leadership role for it's easier to socialize over work, but things get […]
WETLAND SCIENCE WORKS TO SAVE ROSEATE SPOONBILLS
🐦 A "combination of cutting-edge research, strategic habitat restoration, and collaborative conservation efforts" made the difference.
👉 Example of record-breaking investment in restoration
🐦These Florida birds are unique early indicators of […]
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Galápagos Park Releases 158 Juvenile Hybrid Tortoises
🌳 This is part of restoring the ecosystem on Floreana after 150 years without the "giants".
📈 Breeding program has long-term plans for populations with strong lineages […]
Two brownish fish leather pieces on a table.
#fishskinleather was a topic of #solarpunkSunday a couple weeks ago. @DoomsdaysCW posted a several long posts about it and it inspired me to try it out. I've been putting skins to the freezer to try it out and I third it out this weekend, because my family […]
[Original post on kolektiva.social]
#SolarPunkSunday 🌞
Couple donates their $21.6M ranch to be conserved.
🌱 Land was donated to nonprofit Ranchers Stewardship Alliance which promotes sustainable ranching and resilient ecosystems.
🌿 Per the Land Trust Alliance, another NP: Donations like these help on multiple fronts, including […]
This #SolarPunkSunday support my short film, to enable me master the visual effects needed to bring a near future world to life. I'm telling a story set in a country without governments, politicians or police, where ordinary folk govern themselves in a direct #democracy Sharing this post with […]
Still seeking survey takers! Share your opinion on a better world and help us write the story of what a cyberpunk future could look like based on your feedback! That means you're technically a game writer! Don't you wanna be a game writer?!
#survey #utopia #solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #planet
What will be your job in the #solarpunk future?
Your month of birth:
1. Gardener
2. Composter
3. Scavenger
4. Cultivator
5. Harvester
6. Grower
7. Farmer
8. Plantsperson
9. Rewilder
10. Crafter
11. Artisan
12. Repairperson
Your day of birth:
1. Computer
2. Digital
3. Solar panel
4. Windmill
5 […]
A sign from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, prominently displaying "NO DUMPING" with an improvised list of positive activities allowed, such as "Walking," "Singing," and "Learning" pinned next to it.
Hey #Solarpunks - do your thing!
This is a sign near a restored shoreline path along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
#Solarpunk #Hopepunk #River #Water #Chicago #Illinois #Midwest #Environment #Environnement #Joy
Vibrant, big roman lettuce in a gray PVC pipe of vertical garden
Butterfly flower of green beans macro image
A bush of green beans leafs in a vertical garden
Now, as #drought hits hard, the point of #aquaponics becomes very apparent. Every single traditionally ground-planted #plant requires more #water daily than the entire #aquaponics garden plus the #fish, and the ground plants still suffer from the drought […]
[Original post on kolektiva.social]
This #SolarpunkSunday, consider bicycle maintenance an excellent opportunity to teach your child how to cuss properly.
BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES logo Podcast Hopeful Climate Fiction Climate Non-Fiction Academic Studies Solarpunk Starter Pack Zines Anthology
For lots more #solarpunk stuff — podcast about hopeful climate fiction, lists of more solarpunk stories, downloadable zines about why we write these stories, and more — check out the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES substack/podcast:
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
#SolarpunkSunday #podcast #zines
cover of Solarpunk Magazine Issue #15, May/June 2024 collage sunflower
My #solarpunk story ONCE AND FUTURE KILOWATTS in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social about a coal plant converted to a solar farm and the long fingers of the past reaching to the future.
solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...
#SolarpunkSunday
THE MUST READ SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR “Imaginative and hopeful all at once." Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future cover
Metamorphosis is a collection of hopeful #climatefiction from @grist.org and @milkweededitions.bsky.social (my story Seven Sisters is one).
susankayequinn.com/books/metamo...
#SolarpunkSunday #booksky #SFF
4 panel spread of the Nothing is Promised series, a series of tightly-connected solarpunk novels The 4 covers form a single image and the titles form a single phrase
My novel series, Nothing is Promised, a power grid mystery with turtle bots and alt family structures, all battling the #climatecrisis.
"society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making..."
susankayequinn.com/series/nothi...
#SolarpunkSunday #booksky
Halfway to Better cover, linocut print of various scenes from the individual short stories by Susan Kaye Quinn
My collection, HALFWAY TO BETTER:
"These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city...all imagining futures halfway to a better world."
susankayequinn.com/books/halfwa...
(ebook & print & audio)
#SolarpunkSunday #booksky
person standing in the water at the short with a sunsetting sky Coriander, a Bright Green Futures story by Ana Sun cover solarpunk Free until May 29th
A Bright Green Futures story, Coriander by @singingtotigers.bsky.social published as a free ebook for a short time.
"A cultural historian travels around the world to her great-grandmother’s birthplace and discovers traces that transcend time."
lnk.to/BGF24S6website
#SolarpunkSunday #booksky
