SLRPNK
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Basic Rules:
- be constructive: there is no need of another internet space full of competition, negativity, rage etc.;
- no bigotry, including racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia or xenophobia;
- be empathic: empathy is more rebellious than a middle finger;
- no porn and no gore: let's keep this place easy to manage;
- no ads / spamming / flooding, we don't want to buy/consume your commodified ideas;
- occasional self-promotion by active members is fine.
For any community related question or to just test some function: !meta@slrpnk.net
Try our Photon & Alexandrite frontends.
Or try our lightweight UI and Voyager mobile UI.
All accounts also work with XMPP chat automatically incl. our Movim client.
If you need to jointly brainstorm on your next Solarpunk text, try our Etherpad.
And don't miss our Wiki.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
For when you need a laugh!
The definition of a "meme" here is intentionally pretty loose. Images, screenshots, and the like are welcome!
But, keep it lighthearted and/or within our server's ideals.
Posts and comments that are hateful, trolling, inciting, and/or overly negative will be removed at the moderators' discretion.
Please follow all slrpnk.net rules and community guidelines
Have fun!
Everything about energy production and storage.
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Politics without the jerks.
This community is watched over by a ruthless robot moderator to keep out bad actors. I don't know if it will work. Read !santabot@slrpnk.net for a full explanation. The short version is don't be a net negative to the community and you can post here.
Rules
Post political news, your own opinions, or discussion. Anything goes.
All posts must follow the slrpnk sitewide rules.
No personal attacks, no bigotry, no spam. Those will get a manual temporary ban.
Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
Related communities:
The space to discuss Solarpunk itself and Solarpunk related stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere.
Join our chat: Movim or XMPP client.
to discuss news and stuff of the old world dying
!anarchism@slrpnk.net
A community about anarchy. anarchism, social ecology, and communalism for SLRPNK! Solarpunk anarchists unite!
Feel free to ask questions here. We aspire to make this space a safe space. SLRPNK.net's basic rules apply here, but generally don't be a dick and don't be an authoritarian.
Anarchism
Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.
Social Ecology
Social Ecology, developed from green anarchism, is the idea that our ecological problems have their ultimate roots in our social problems. This is because the domination of nature and our ecology by humanity has its ultimate roots in the domination humanity by humans. Therefore, the solutions to our ecological problems are found by addressing our social and ecological problems simultaneously.
Libraries
Audiobooks
- General audiobooks
- LibriVox Public domain book collection where you can find audiobooks from old communist, socialist, and anarchist authors.
- Anarchist audiobooks
- Socialist Audiobooks
- Social Ecology Audiobooks
Quotes
Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.
~ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom
People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.
~Anonymous, but quoted by Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
~Murray Bookchin, "A Politics for the Twenty-First Century"
There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.
~Murray Bookchin, Post Scarcity Anarchism
In modern times humans have become a wolf not only to humans, but to all nature.
The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution...
~Abdullah Öcalan
Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.
~ Murray Bookchin
Network
A place to share practical, durable and quality made products that are made to last, with an emphasis on upcycled and sustainable products!
Guidelines:
Things that are well-made and durable (even if they won't last a lifetime) are A-Okay!
Unlike that other BIFL place, Home-made and DIY items are encouraged here, as long as some form of instruction is included in the body of the post.
Videos links are not allowed as post titles, but you may use them in a text post.
A limited amount of self-promotion is accepted, IF the item you are selling aligns with this criteria:
- The item must be made with sustainable or recycled materials.
- If electronic in some way, the item must be open-source.
- The item must be user-serviceable (if applicable).
- You cannot be a large corporation.
- The post must be clearly marked with a [Self Promotion] tag in your title.
Place to hang out, memes, share experiences or just vent.
Welcome to all not wanting to vote, not able to vote or just annoyed by the US presidential election taking over Lemmy and other social media.
Coming here to argue about voting will result in a ban.
Be kind to each other & follow the server rules.
Be specifically aware that not everyone here is from the so called USA.
A community to discuss, appreciate, and advocate for trees and forests. Please follow the SLRPNK instance rules, found here.
Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.
related communities (decentralized only)
somewhat closely related to individual action:
- !vegan@slrpnk.net - Chatter on reducing GHG by way of reducing consumption of animal products (not necessarily environment-specific)
- !vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !veganism@sopuli.xyz
- !vegan@hexbear.net - Another vegan community, but apparently unreachable from slrpnk.net
- !activist_investing@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
- !nolawns@slrpnk.net - Landscaping in diverse low-waste ways
- !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- !buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- !fixing@slrpnk.net - fix it, don’t replace it
- !fixit@disflux.org
- !righttorepair@midwest.social - exercise your right to fix stuff
- !right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de - exercise your right to fix stuff
- !sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org - sustainable technology
- !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
- !permacomputing@slrpnk.net - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
- !zerowaste@slrpnk.net - To discuss waste avoidance
- !anticonsumption@sopuli.xyz
- !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net - sustainable travel, if you must travel
less closely related to individual action:
- !collapse@slrpnk.net
- !collapse@sopuli.xyz
- !energy@slrpnk.net - For chatter specifically related to green energy
- !degrowth@slrpnk.net - Economics of reducing excessive consumption
- !cdr@slrpnk.net - Discuss CO₂ removal
- !treehuggers@slrpnk.net - Discuss forestation and reforestation
- !reclamation@slrpnk.net - Discuss reclaiming disturbed lands
- ~~!climate@slrpnk.net~~ ← ⚠ moderator locked a civil, on-topic, science-supported post without cause (see “The core of the climate social problem: stubbornness. The mitigating effect of psilocybin is worth a look” in the modlog)
- !climate@lemmy.stad.social
- !climate_lm@slrpnk.net ← climate change discussion without excessive moderation
What is No Lawns?
A community devoted to alternatives to monoculture lawns, with an emphasis on native plants and conservation. Rain gardens, xeriscaping, strolling gardens, native plants, and much more! (from official Reddit r/NoLawns)
Have questions or don't know where to begin?
- You can check our website
- Or our Reddit wiki
- Our FAQ
- Resources by Country
- Resources by US State
- Doug Tallamy AMA
Where can you find the official No Lawns socials?
Rules
- Be Civil
- Don't dox yourself
- Stay on Topic
- Don't break instance or Lemmy rules
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Discussing ways to reduce waste and build community!
Celebrate thrift as a virtue, talk about creative ways to make do, or show off how you reused something!
A community to discuss news about our oceans & seas, marine conservation, sustainable aquatic tech, and anything related to Tidalpunk - the ocean-centric subgenre of Solarpunk.
This is a community for information and discussions on
- Mycorrhizal networks
- Mycoremediation for land restoration, water mycofiltration etc
- Biodegradable mycelium-based materials (building blocks, textiles, alternatives to plastic, to name a few)
- Fungal technology & biotechnology
- Medicinal uses
And so much more.
Some related local communities
Credits
- Icon: Studio Klarenbeek & Dros
- Banner: Pauline Moss
Grasweeti - Portmanteau of sweet and graffiti
A community to share pictures of cute graffiti, stickers, wheatpastes and more. Be careful to not dox yourself and if you can, please provide an image description (here are some tips for doing that).
Share your self-made stuff and half-baked projects here.
Also check out !diy@beehaw.org
There is also a related XMPP chat.
A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.
- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
Checkout these related communities:
Discussions about degrowth and all sorts of related topics. This includes UBI, economic democracy, the economics of green technologies, enviromental legislation and many more intressting economic topics.
"Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." -Tim Snyder
A community for sharing information about ways to get involved with real world activism to make the world a better place.
Spend less time arguing about politics on the internet. The world is in trouble. Get out there and try to help.
Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
Welcome to Enshitification
A community for everyone who didn't realise it was spelled 'enshittification'.
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.