Playing for a solarpunk future

As well as solarpunk pop-up villages, the case for thrutopias and more in our latest round-up of solarpunky stuff

More roleplaying for protopia

SolaRPG joins the growing family of solarpunk style roleplaying games. It’s a project born from the collaboration between Dreaming OPEnly, Asociacion BreGal, and Associazione Kora from Germany, Spain and Italy respectively. It’s free-to-play, open-license and been funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ program.

While the primary audience is aimed at young people aged 13–17, the game’s designers tell us it's fun for anyone. They also have plans to expand the system to incorporate rules for live action roleplaying and more.

In SolaRPG you can explore a world of sustainable cities, environmental stewardship and community-driven innovation. Roleplayers will face challenges that test your teamwork and creativity.

The characters you create can uncover the mysteries of Marai, the near-future fictional setting for the story. So if you like the sound of roleplaying in a solarpunk style world, grab some friends download the free handbook and play SolaRPG today.

Links

• Inside the Solarpunk Pop-Up Village Exploring California’s Future - California Future Society

• Utopia Wellbeing via Energy Technology Solarpunk (Technology Focus) - Professor Bill Tomlinson

• Operation Suspicion - solarpunk dc

• The Baby Beavers Rewilding London Behind a McDonald's - Wilding Earth

• Climate Mixtape: Earth Day 2025 - Climate Curious

• On Thrutopia with Sanjana Sekhar | The Future is Intersectional: Artivist Series - Intersectional Environmentalist

• Read, think, act: Meet three booksellers guiding people through the climate crisis - EuroNews

• How Waves Could Quietly Overtake Solar & Wind - Undecided with Matt Ferrell

• US Coal is DEAD. How Trump's energy policy is evaporating before his eyes! - Just Have a Think

• Eternal Optimist by High Contrast - SolarPunk Stories Playlist

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See you in the sunshine,

Alex Holland

Founder, SolarPunk Stories