The final battle between Avatar Aang and Ozai.

This looks kind of like an old expressway that was converted into a town.

Shoot, that’s the one I was actually thinking of!

Princess Mononoke from studio Ghibli.

Edit: whoops, I meant ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’

I totally get the sentiment, but our individual effects are miniscule when compared to the devastation caused by a few wealthy elite.

Even if the entire world’s population went vegan overnight, that would still only reduce emissions by 10-15%.

Solar panel tech has exploded over the last 10 years, yet CO2 emissions and power consumption have grown faster still.

Considering this is very much a time sensitive issue, I’m beginning to believe that the most effective use of resources would be direct action against the fossil fuel industry and military industrial complex. Things such as monkey wrenching, blockades, and other more radical means of force.

Of course not everyone is willing to personally go and cause damage to physical assets of corporations, fearing arrest and punishment. But some people have very little to lose and are willing to put their personal safety on the line.

For the others with more to lose (families, etc…), they can still help by identifing targets, keeping watch, donating tools/equipment, and even providing funding for more action, bailouts, legal fees, etc.

There is a reason the word punk is used in SolarPunk.

Tbf, I send out emails at the end of the day, right before I leave. I don’t expect an immediate answer though. It just takes me that long to motivate myself to write that 4 line email I’ve been procrastinating all day.

Agreed. Art is the single most powerful tool used to start cultural revolutions.

The Renaissance only happened because of artists’ ideas were spread in a meaningful way.

The music and psychedelic art of the 50s-60s inspired the hippie movement.

Currently, we are being inspired by cyberpunk art. I guess that’s the natural progression of capitalism. But it will eventually fail. And when it does, SolarPunk will rise.

One example would be when people move around in large crowds. Their behavior can be misspelled by following fluid dynamics equations. It’s as if thousands of people share a consciousness that they don’t understand/notice.

Taoism teaches us that the it true consciousness is universal. We are essentially waves of energy, all bound together/connected by empty space. So we share a consciousness that can be tapped into his meditation and being in the moment.

Beautiful drawing. Great imagination and execution.

People love to see exotic animals, but hate the biodiversity required for such animals to exist.

Rodents attract foxes, coyotes, snakes, and birds of prey. All of which are parts of a healthy ecosystem. Additionally, some rodents are beneficial to the local environment.

I think ticks are the biggest worry, but I’m my eyes, they’re just mosquitos that can’t fly.

Disable it?

Agreed. Stopping production or limiting it to a few uses like medical purposes will be a more important factor

There are some great ideas in there, but I don’t quite think that what you are describing is solarpunk. More like a eco-socialist The list needs more solar and more punk:

More solar ideas:

• Build your own house battery system
• Install solar panels, geothermal heating/cooling
• capture rainwater for plants/animals
• Plant trees. Lots of trees.
• Use small computers to automate plant watering/hydroponics systems *Indoor vertical farming
• run for local government to spread solarpunk ideas and help take action
• Learn to sew, make clothes from repurposed textiles/mend clothes instead of buying new ones
• start a blog/website spreading solarpunk ideas
• create music/art with solarpunk ideas

More punk ideas:

• Seed bombing
• Destroying/vandalizing infrastructure used for fossil fuels
• Destroy/vandalize heavy machinery used for biodiversity destruction (road construction, mining, single-family housing developments)
• join/create an intentional community or eco village
• blockade roads, drastically slowing economic activity
• Blockade private/executive airports
• Pirate software, research papers, textbooks, and help keep information open source
• create music/art spreading solarpunk ideas

I remember reading that, although we are discovering new organisms that break down plastic, the organism still emits greenhouse gases through metabolic waste. And the output of that emission is similar to the emissions of just burning the plastic.

It spreads the emissions out over a longer time period, which I guess has it’s benefits. Does anyone know if this research has progressed at all? I haven’t had time to follow closely enough.