It is a gorgeous solution that addresses climate impacts and builds community. I also recommend following this inspiring YouTube channel.

Thank you for pausing; thank you for listening.

I'm a graduate student taking a class on environmental communication. It's a creative class and for my final project I'm using bulletin boards to understand what people need from their communities (wherever they find them) and what they would be willing to give to help their communities grow. I was hoping you could help me out on this "virtual bulletin board". I'll post pictures of the completed project when it's done (in a few weeks).

If you want to contribute, here's what I need from you. In the comments is great!

Answer one (or more) of the following questions:

1. How and to whom have you shown care today? How and to whom will you show care tomorrow?
2. Describe the world you want to live in. What does it look like? How do its people care for each other?
3. What do you need from a community? What would you be willing to give?
4. Where do you find your communities? Where could you build new communities?
5. What stops you from connecting with and nurturing your communities?
6. What does "community" mean to you? Describe your community.

OPTIONAL: indicate a font you'd like me to use for your response when I incorporate it into my project.

I appreciate anything you have to say!

If you were the teen librarian in a small city of 30,000ish that has both universities and not insignificant poverty, what kinds of programs would you run that couldfall under the solarpunk label?

Hello everyone, I have decided that I will be making a presentation for my english class about solarpunk! It's a topic I'm very passionate about, and I reckon it's worth spreading the awareness of. Therefore, I decided to make my classmates familiar with our way of life.
I need adviceon how should my table of contents look like. I'm not very efficient when it comes to creating percise plans for projects, adn I don't want to ask ChatGPT for a fake answer. I thought I would try and ask the community. Any help will be appreciated! :3

Hello! I’m currently taking a speech course in college, and I decided to write both my informative and persuasive speeches on the topic of solarpunk. I posted here earlier while working on the informative speech and I’m pleased to say it went amazing!!! I got one of the highest grades in the class and sparked a lot of conversation, just as I’d hoped, so thank y’all so much for pointing me in the right direction.

Now comes the fun part! I now have an engaged class full of young adults that I’ve been tasked to talk to for 8 straight minutes about why we should all be solarpunks. this is my chance to actually sell people on the idea and convince others to join me in making real-world change. it may be a small audience and mostly inconsequential but damn it, we all start somewhere, and I really want to give this my absolute best shot! even one person being convinced to chase a hopeful future in these times is enough for me.

So that being said, what were some of the arguments and points that really sold the idea of solarpunk for you? What sources do you think I could use? What does being a solarpunk mean to you? Does it bring you hope and why? What are some things we can reasonably do to build a solarpunk future? I’m looking for any and all input/suggestions to make sure I don’t miss anything crucial. And don’t worry, I’ll be doing tons of my own research and brainstorming, this post is just me seeking a little extra info, not a replacement for dedicated study.

Thank y’all so much for any and all responses!!! You’re the best!!!

Hello all! I'm designing a tabletop roleplaying game ( oversimplification: like Dungeons & Dragons ) called Starship Odyssey, exploring a solarpunk starship floating through the vast unknown as humanity's final ark, all using by Powered by the Apocalypse-based mechanics.

Here's a quick elevator pitch:

Embark aboard the Starship Odyssey, a gleaming, near-utopic starship-city serving as humanity's gleaming yet unexpected final ark. Within its sectors, you'll explore a vibrant solarpunk community rich in interspecies art, high-stakes diplomacy, and cosmic discovery. The diverse communities await your influence to tip the scales as tensions rise towards conflict. Powered by the Apocalypse-based mechanics encourage narrative choices and invite players to become magiartists, technomancers, and galactic ascetics. As members of a new cohort aboard the ship, you’ll uncover a tangled web of politics and celestial mysteries. Discover a personal identity on the Odyssey. Forge friendships across boundaries. Navigate faction alliances. Shape the future of humanity in ways only you can, as every decision echoes through the cosmos and determines the fate of all aboard.

I'd love to collaborate with creative writers, visual artists, graphic designers, playtesters, game designers, and more. If you're interested in being involved deeply with this project, especially if it scratches your solarpunk, combat light, narrative heavy, and or Powered by the Apocalypse itches, please message me for a link to my small, private Discord server.

Absolutely no TTRPG or gaming experienced required!

For others, I'll be posting looking for creatives on a commission basis soon!

Thank you!

No one likes planned obsolescence-- I know I don't. Fortunately, if you think planned obsolescence is bad for consumers, it's so much worse for large businesses. On average, most businesses cycle their technology every four years. So every year, they throw out every computer, every server, and get a new one.

I've been experimenting with computer hardware since I was in college. I've worked in helpdesks since 2013 and have torn down and down root cause analysis on almost every machine you can imagine since then.

So why do these computers get slow and fail every four years, you ask?

Because the system integrators who build them (Dell, HP, etc) use the shittiest thermal paste imaginable. So in about four years, the thermal paste dries out, performance conks out, and they throw the whole machine away-- or rather, they sell in on Ebay for pennies on the dollar.

You can buy a 16 core Xeon workstation for a couple hundred dollars, put some new thermal paste on, and it'll run like a new server...and for a long, long time.

Enterprise hardware is often miles beyond anything consumer-grade. My personal favorite Example of this is the Hitachi WD Ultrastars, a helium filled-drive (so the platters don't rust) that's meant to run continuously for sometimes ten years. They are sold second-hand refurbished, in like-new condition, every three years. You can buy one today-- 12TB for $125.

Or take the now-discontinued Intel Optane, a storage medium so godlike that Intel simply didn't know what to do with a technology they couldn't planned-obsolesce, so they killed it. What makes Intel Optane special? Take the 16GB M10 M.2 nvme that you can buy 10-for-$30 on Ebay. That 16GB drive is rated for 365 Terabyte-writes of wear. So lets say you used it in a flashdrive, and wrote it completely full of information once every day, monday through friday, it would take 96 years for a block to be corrupted. Now, 16GB isn't much, but you could easy put debian-stable and a few docker containers, assuming they don't handle a large buffer of file IO (static sites, anyone?). They also sell up the p4800x in 1.5TB, but those are pricy at between $300-$600, though they can handle something bonkers like 164 Petabyte-writes (1PB = 1000TB). If you wanted to see how that compared to the best SSD you can buy today, you would need a log scale so that the Optane doesn't crash out the top of the graph, and disappear into the night sky.

We talk about "How can we make offline libraries that last, how can we host book and make information accessible"-- that stuff is already solved, or mostly solved, on r/homelab and r/DataHoarder , and that's good, we should lean into that. We could add a bit more of a community focus instead of hub-and-spoke sysadmin-user, but it's a building block, at least, for something one of one (or many) of us could build. To be clear, even if we need to host hub-and-spoke libraries and blogs until something better comes along, we absolutely should do that.

Yeah, I know if it feels like we're living in a cyberpunk hellscape sometimes, and maybe we are, but we're missing out to not taking advantage of those niche products to build everlasting technologies when they're sold cheaply.

I'm considering writing a blog on how to refurbish enterprise technology and make technology last far beyond what it was meant for-- if that's something people would be interested in.

The future isn’t something that happens to us—it’s something we create. Every decision, from how we consume energy to how we manage resources, plays a role in shaping a sustainable, resilient world. In my latest article, I discuss how practical, collective action in resource management and the adoption of green technologies can drive meaningful change. This is about working together, innovating, and embracing sustainable practices that benefit everyone. Let's unite to create a future where sustainability, renewable energy, and smart resource management go hand in hand. I invite you to read the full article and share your thoughts—together, we can build a more sustainable tomorrow."

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There's the Anarchist Library, where people upload their political zines and books and I wonder if there's something similar for solarpunk content. If not, maybe we can create it.

What would/should the content be? Everything regarding how to organize a solarpunk community: gardening, renewable energy, construction methods, diy tutorials, agriculture, etc.

Why not start to use our knowledge for open source knowledge? There are a lot of great ideas out there that sadly we cannot use because they are under a paywall, they are proprietary, etc. In Tech we have FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and I always wonder why other industries don't have the same concept. Sure, there is free knowledge out there for everything, but you don't usually find it as organized and as widespread as software projects are. Imagine: Free and Open Source Science, Free and Open Source Agriculture, Free and Open Source Architecture.