Hey, is there a #solarpunk community here?
Anyone living the life? anyone writing the fiction? Anyone building the tech?
@ajroach42 @cypnk is into offgrid #cabinlife.
I've got the #offgrid tendencies too, but perhaps more pragmatically interested in #nanogrid or #microgrid energy in(ter)dependence.
I am not well acquainted with #solarpunk. What scope of it are you referring to here?
Ref: https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/
Corey Doctorow "Walkaway", perhaps.
@Algot @uranther @cypnk For sure!
I'm about 3/4 through walkaway and it has some great moments in it.
It also has some real sad moments, and when I started reading it, those sad moments went further than I was willing to go, (This was shortly after the inauguration.)
I need to finish it.
But I also need to keep thinking about tech that isn't 15 years away. How can modern tech be leveraged to make our part of the world a little better?
It was the hopeful fiction part which I saw in "Walkaway".
As to current tech, I'd be sure to keep track of the maker movement as a whole. A lot is fun and games, but the ideas there are full of potential.
@uranther @cypnk
I mean, I'm looking for hopeful fiction that looks at our impending economic colapse and imagines a future in which we manage to (sustainably) build our own way through it.
But I'm also looking for current tech to empower the solarpunk lifestyle today.
I want to end my dependence on this capitalist system whenever/wherever possible.