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Sean and Ruchika

We wanted to have a quiet afternoon and so we went to go to Kapej Coffee on the Brown Line. It is one of our favorite places in #Chicago with some of the best #coffee in the city. In fact, the owner was roasting coffee fresh in a little alcove off the counter.

@dohappybelove made a #painting and @seanbala started #reading “The Lost Cause” by @pluralistic - a wonderful Sunday!

#Illinois #Art #MastoArt #Books #Bookstodon #SSF #Solarpunk @coffee @bookstodon

A hand holding a sketchbook with a watercolor painting of a colorful balcony in front of an actual fireplace, alongside art supplies and an iced coffee on a table.

A man lounging in an armchair reading a book, with a coffee cup and a takeaway beverage on the table next to him, in a cozy room with plants and decorative items on a fireplace mantel.

A woman holding up a drawing inside a cafe with a 'CLOSED' sign visible in the background.

A book titled “The Lost Cause" next to a white coffee mug with the word "Kapej Coffee" written on it on calligraphy. The setting is a a cafe with a plant and window in the background.

Lex

Updated the #wikipedia articles on #solarpunk (in german and english) with this great picture by commando jugendstil (are they here?) and @alxd (CC-BY-SA) https://alxd.org/nudne-science-fiction-uratuje-swiat-pl.html#nudne-science-fiction-uratuje-swiat

Before, the articles mainly had skyscrapers with shrubs on them and pictures of the singapore gardens, which, you know, look solarpunk but don't quite carry the spirit as much as this one does.

An image of a former oil platform at sea, repurposed as a greenhouse and powered by wind turbines. It's a representation of solarpunk values, repurposing infrastructure and getting rid of fossil fuels.

HopePunk FTW

Pollinators love biodiversity

#SolarPunk #EcoPunk

virgin vs chad meme, with a picture of a suburban house with an enormous lawn and a prarie.
Text reads "the virgin lawn monoculture vs the chad biodiverse prarie"

HopePunk FTW

#Tired: First Person Dystopian Shooters
#Wired: First Person Golfcourse Seedbombing

I'll buy that game in an instant

#EcoPunk #SolarPunk

@knizer@toot.boston

Using the dryer rather than...just hanging things up is a not-eco-friendly American addiction, and I appreciate a well-built drying rack.

I saw a house in St Johnsbury, #Vermont with 4x of these wall mounted rotary clothes airers on their porches and thought they were a great idea, and finally found the right search terms today for a source.

These should be everywhere in #SomervilleMA and #boston - with all our high-density triple deckers.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Brabantia-Wallfix-79-ft-Outdoor-Dryer-Metallic-Gray/25896871 #solarpunk

Josh Simmons

The little library down the street which already features books and crafts, has been expanded to include seeds 🤩

Looking forward to adding to the collection!

Also, a PSA for locals, the Petaluma Regional Library *already* has a seed library 🌱

#SolarPunk #Libraries #Community #Gardening #Petaluma #SonomaCounty #SFBA

Tinker ☀️

Kanopy is having an "Animated April" event, highlighting animated movies, cartoons, anime, and more.

Free with your local library card* (no ads)

https://www.kanopy.com

Check your local library to see if they utilize the Kanopy app. If they don't, ask if they use any other apps for free streaming movies / TV shows or if they can sign up for Kanopy.

#library #libraryEconomy #solarPunk

Screenshot of the Kanopy website showing "Animated April" with several movies and animated shows such as the Secret of Kells, Marcel, the Garden of Words, and many many others.

Susan Kaye Quinn

Amazon is being a pain, but this week's free #solarpunk story is *mostly* free (sorry, Australia!).

THE DAY WE STOPPED BURNING is *very* short, but I also kinda love it a lot.

SHORT STORY
A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift.

It's one of six solarpunk stories in Halfway to Better.
https://lnk.to/BurningWebsite

The story of the print-making art: https://susankayequinn.com/making-art-for-halfway-to-better

#hopepunk #climatefiction #ClimateCrisis

orange linocut print cover for THE DAY WE STOPPED BURNING by Susan Kaye Quinn

Tinker ☀️

Grow enough for you.
Grow enough for your neighbors.
Share freely.

Artwork from: https://www.disorganizedjoy.com/

#solarPunk #mutualAid

Comic with four panes. Title of Comic: The Tree of Liberty. Pane #1: Picture of a bellpepper with the words "This is a Green Pepper. It cost 75 cents at the grocery store." Pane #2: Picture of crops under a sun with the words, "Inside the pepper are enough seeds ot make hundreds even thousands more peppers." Pane #3: Picture of FBI warning, videos, and a music player with the words "In a world where nothing comes free and it's profitable to control what people copy and create." Pane #4: Picture of a backyard garden with a bucket of produce marked Free with the words, "Gardening is a revolutionary act."

HopePunk FTW

We definitely need a future that involves more than just parking lots and heat islands. It's awesome to see successes like in Düsseldorf

#SolarPunk #EcoPunk #HopePunk
https://www.ubm-development.com/magazin/en/the-new-green-heart-of-dusseldorf/

Above, Düsseldorf 1990, a typical car-dominated landscape. Below, 2019, heavily regreenedand more human friendly

Billy Smith

This is very solarpunk :D

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

#solarpunk

HopePunk FTW

America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit.
"The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."

https://thegardenmagazine.com/this-area-in-detroit-is-now-americas-first-self-sustainable-agrihood/

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/first-sustainable-urban-agrihood/

#HopePunk #EcoPunk #SolarPunk

Picture from article - this is America's first urban "agrihood" in Detroit.
The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more.

Sally Strange

We need to

-eat less meat
-eat more meat substitutes
-reduce our agricultural footprint
-increase the amount of land given over to wild animals and nature preserves

It's time for humans to embrace Garden Earth. Lots of ancient peoples exploited their environments unsustainabl yand hunted species to extinction. But some of their descendents learned from their mistakes and developed cultural pathways, aka social technologies, to keep their usage of Earth's bounty in balance.

#ecology #SolarPunk #ClimateCrisis #vegan #vegetarian #indigenous

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline