How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!
And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!
➵ ‘oh my gosh we close soon and this person won’t leave’ // ‘oh my gosh they close soon and I don’t know how to ask for their number’
➵ barista making specific latte art for someone
➵ barista making latte art not as good as usual because they’re so nervous because oh my this customer is so attractive
➵ barista dropping a tray and one customer helps pick everything up
➵ it’s really slow so the barista and customer end up talking for hours
➵ the coffee shop is closed, but there’s someone outside in the rain so they’re invited in to keep warm
➵ barista remembering one customer’s name but actually they had it wrong the entire time and the customer doesn’t want to correct them
➵ customer doesn’t like coffee, but they were walking by and the barista was super attractive so they came in anyway
➵ barista writing bad pick up lines on a customer’s cup
➵ the shop is really crowded so a customer asks to share a table with another customer
➵ barista is bored and relentlessly tries to strike up a conversation with a busy customer
➵ new barista flirts with customer without realizing they’re flirting with the shop owner
➵ new barista frequently gives customer a free drink without realizing it’s the shop owner; shop owner should be upset about loss of profit but they’re not; ‘should you be giving me free coffee?’ // ‘oh I’ve actually been paying for it myself, don’t worry about it’ ; shop owner is way more upset at that
➵ new barista accidentally gets locked out of shop, random guy picks the lock with a soft stare that says ‘don’t ask questions’
➵ two customers use wifi and work; one is a writer and the other has looked over their shoulder to read the story; chapter ends on a cliffhanger; when the writer gets up to leave the other person awkwardly asks what happens next
➵ two customers frequent the same coffee shop at the same time every day; one day one of them shows up late and the other had already ordered for them
➵ barista draws heart next to customers name every day; customer is undeniably enamored but barista does it for everyone and doesn’t realize why that customer stares at them so sweetly
➵ customer flirts relentlessly with every barista, but the new employee is completely oblivious/unbothered
➵ customer leaves a huge tip and barista doesn’t know how to accept it
➵ customer leaves something behind and barista chases them down the street to return it
➵ two people frequent the same coffee shop to use the wifi and do their work; little do they know they work for the same company and have been emailing each other the entire time (bonus points if they end up sharing a table and complaining/talking about the other person to them)
so so sooooo sexy when tv shows end when they’re supposed to. so sexy to have a thematically coherent & significant narrative and follow it to its natural conclusion. I’m salivating
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone
