Root solarpunk to help it grow

Why less fantastical shades of our genre have greater power to inspire

I recently gave a 6 minute talk for ETH Prague “To create a deliciously sustainable future we should champion more rooted solarpunk”. To watch it click here or below.

Do you agree with the arguments I made? Do you think that more rooted shades of solarpunk have greater capacity to mobilise people to make them a reality than the more fantastical ones?

There were a number of other solarpunk themed talks at ETH Prague. One we especially liked was by Dustin Jacobus, “An artistic view of the future: A Solarpunk future”.

He talks through illustrated visions of how places in Europe might evolve over time in a solarpunk style. They feature lots of urban rewilding and augmenting to make cities more deliciously sustainable.

[IMAGE: Nuremberg @ DustinJacobus.com]

The depictions of his near futures especially resonate with our more rooted shade of solarpunk.

Until Next Time

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See you in the sunshine,

Alex Holland

Founder, SolarPunk Stories