SOLARPUNK 101
Solarpunk is a literary genre and art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment, climate change, and pollution. It is a subgenre within science fiction, aligned with cyberpunk derivatives, and may borrow elements from utopian and fantasy genres.
- From Wikipedia's Solarpunk Article
Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics.
- From missolivialouise on tumblr
Related items per Wikipedia: Bright green environmentalism, Climate fiction, Deep ecology, Ecocriticism, Ecofiction, Environmental art, Green anarchism, Social ecology, Technogaianism
- Solarpunk - Wikipedia
- missolivialouise's Solarpunk post on tumblr
- SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE. The below was compiled by… | by Jay Springett | Solarpunks | Medium
- SOLARPUNKS
- Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto | Project Hieroglyph (asu.edu)
- A Solarpunk Manifesto (English) – ReDes – Regenerative Design (re-des.org)
- What is Solarpunk? on Vimeo
- What is Solarpunk? - YouTube
- We WILL Fix Climate Change! - YouTube
- Why This Gives Me Hope for the Future (ft. @Saint Andrewism) - YouTube
Articles
- What Is Solarpunk? It's a Practical Movement. | Built In
- “Solarpunk” & the Pedagogical Value of Utopia « Journal of Sustainability Education (susted.com)
MEDIA
- Solar Punk - TV Tropes
- Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction - Blowing your mind with wild words and worlds
- solarpunk_bot, Twitter/Nitter - a bot that retweets all mentions of Solarpunk on Twitter
Books/Reading:
- Book Reviews - Ecofictology wth Lovis Geier - YouTube
- Solarpunk Magazine – Demand Utopia
- Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
- Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragons Anthology
- Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
- Sunshine Superhighway
- Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures
- Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot series
- World Weaver Press
- Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
- Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
- Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastic Stories in a Sustainable World
- Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
- A lot of works are listed here: Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (psu.edu)
- Daughters of the Apocalypse - PenUltimate Productions (weebly.com)
Podcasts:
Youtube:
- Solarpunk Press - Audiofiction, there was once a website but it is no longer active
- Utopia Science Fiction Magazine - Discussions regarding utopia fiction
- Happen Films
- Our Changing Climate
- Andrewism
- Regenerative Films
- EdibleAcres
- KOUR — Resistor of Sorcery, Naturally
- The Solarpunk Farmer
- The Solarpunk Scene
- Earthship Biotecture
Artists to Check Out
MISC:
- Introducing Left Wondering (levernews.com) - Welcome to our new advice column on how to live your values during late capitalism. You can submit your own questions too!
- Solarpunk - hope for the future (reddit.com)