I just finished another Bookchin book! It's some great encouragement to go out and build some directly democratic institutions that will make a difference in people's lives.
#solarpunk
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Facing Extinction: What Do We Need To Do?
Public Meeting, Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square Dublin, 7pm, Thursday 17th October.
Come to share ideas, organise and inspire.
#XRI #extinctionrebel #extinctionrebellionireland #climatechange #climatecollapse #biodiversity #ecology #future #solarpunk #LNG
What a good idea! Solar- charged usb ports built into a bench outside public library! #solarpunk
Katja Diehl looks for an #illustrator for some positive #SolarPunk images.
Here the original in German.
https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/113277560986653959
DIE MINOISCHE KULTUR: EIN MODELL DER GLEICHSTELLUNG FĆR DIE MODERNE? https://danielfrei.ch/zirkular/die-minoische-kultur-ein-modell-der-gleichstellung-fur-die-moderne #kreta #gleichberechtigung #minoan #solarpunk #ecosocialism
Good news! My panel in NYC to help launch Metamorphosis (Climate Fiction for a Better Future) will be livestreamed!
In person and live-streaming tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metamorphosis-climate-fiction-for-a-better-future-tickets-1008598785117
Monday Oct 7, 2024 @7pm
The Center for Fiction
15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Novel Exploration replied to AnnaFeatherstone's status
I so, so agree with all of this. Yes, yes and yes
It is the way we need to go
Thank you for publishing this and so publicising the issues involved
How a university student's project crystallised for me the worrying links between books, despondency and climate change...but there's also hope!
#climatechange #books #bookstodon #scifi #hopepunk #solarpunk #poetry #authors #writingcommunity #climatecrisis #bookstores #librarians #libraries #publishing #publishers
Chewy and accurate article about future solar:
Today, the Klamath River is flowing freely for the first time in more than 100 years.
The dams have been removed. The ecosystems are being nurtured. And sovereignty has been restored to the Shasta Indian Nation over another 2800 acres. Good things are happening. Great things are possible. https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/aug/28/today-klamath-river-flowing-free-first-time-more-c/
āMok showcases her talent for weaving a light atmosphere in a dark world, as well as her ability to construct moving relationships. She also establishes her partialness to brave female protagonists, who refuse to accept the status quo or to give into darkness.ā - Aurealis
š #Bookstodon #Fantasy #SciFi #SFF #Solarpunk #WomenInSTEM
www.dkmok.com
Season Two Episode Ten: Ecofascism and Rewilding: A Conversation With Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha
Thereās no question that the biosphere is in crisis right now thanks to human-driven global warming, our hostile takeover of most of Earthās land area, and our pollution and overfishing of the seas. Slowing downānever mind outright stoppingāthe collapse of the Earthās ecosystems and the mass extinction currently gaining pace calls for aggressively protecting the environment, or possibly even giving half of the Earthās land surface back to nature in a process known as rewilding.
But how will we manage to share the Earth with the rest of the biosphere when history shows that weāre pretty terrible at sharing it with each other, with some states even going so far as to have used the preservation of wilderness as a tool of genocide and white supremacy? There are still those who would use ā¦
Season Two Episode Ten: Ecofascism and Rewilding: A Conversation With Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha
Thereās no question that the biosphere is in crisis right now thanks to human-driven global warming, our hostile takeover of most of Earthās land area, and our pollution and overfishing of the seas. Slowing downānever mind outright stoppingāthe collapse of the Earthās ecosystems and the mass extinction currently gaining pace calls for aggressively protecting the environment, or possibly even giving half of the Earthās land surface back to nature in a process known as rewilding.
But how will we manage to share the Earth with the rest of the biosphere when history shows that weāre pretty terrible at sharing it with each other, with some states even going so far as to have used the preservation of wilderness as a tool of genocide and white supremacy? There are still those who would use environmental protection as an excuse to block immigrants, reject refugees, and expel āundesirableā people from the land. What will it take to value human and non-human life and the land all equally, without using one as an excuse to persecute the other?
Getting urgently-needed environmental protection and rewilding right requires facing the evils that have been historically committed in the name of conservation, so that we donāt repeat those grave mistakes, even with the best of intentions. As solarpunks, we need to learn from the past in order to shape futures that are intentionally better than our pasts and presents.
https://youtu.be/iWs1NGgdyvI?si=Ff-f2UwQVp91RJDu
#Episode #Season2 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ecofascism #environmentalism #conservation #rewilding #biosphere #EcologicalCollapse #SixthExtinction
Idea: a community clothing closet; basically a thrift store of just clothes, categorized in type and size (but not gender because whatever). You can take out clothes in exchange for signing up on a volunteer sheet or bringing detergent or just with a membership card, depending on how the economy works. But when clothes are returned they go into a sorted laundry area; volunteers do laundry and hang the clothes back up so they can be borrowed by others.
"How to Solarpunk in a Lonely World" ā my guest #solarpunk episode on the IF THIS GOES ON, DON'T PANIC podcast. It's a short column about how connection and community aren't just climate solutions but deep human needs... and folks are starting to find ways to do this (again).
According to my Facebook memories, 7 years ago today I was standing on my roof filming a Kickstarter video to fund the translation of Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World from Brazilian Portuguese into English. (Translation done by Fabio Fernandes!) The book is still in print, and still sells several copies a week. My life wouldnāt be remotely the same today if I hadnāt taken that project on!
https://www.amazon.com/Solarpunk-Ecological-Fantastical-Stories-Sustainable/dp/0998702293
