Would you recommend compost toilets as a way to not waste human waste? I’m trying to imagine how that would work at city scale. Would communities cart the waste to their rooftop and nextdoor food forests? Would garage-truck style vehicles help in moving it?
As I suspected, the majority (59%) believe that skyscrapers with green stuff on them were solarpunk. This isn’t largely true, but I think the main entry point is people enjoy imagining better cities.
I am trying to create solarpunk art with more practical options for verdant urban spaces.
I think I’m a registered organ donor. Would prefer to donate my whole body to science and sidestep the whole funeral business.
Anything is better than fire cremation. The article says it takes more energy than driving five hundred miles.
I’m outlining my next solarpunk novel. Wish me luck (and endurance).
I uploaded my own solarpunk novel to a solarpunk “Library.” Mostly care about spreading the ideas anyway.
Congratulations! Roleplay immersion is a great way to have a mental solarpunk vacation.
The good news for Zionist punks is they can do the right thing and stop being Zionists at any point, like that Jewish woman I saw at the encampment wearing a Kippah patterned like a slice of watermelon.
On their Patreon, the “Solarpunk Presents” hosts admitted they interviewed crypto-and-web3 bro Stephen Reid because listeners asked for him. The hosts should have known better. They should have ignored those requests, as probably those listeners/Patreon donors are invested in crypto and are trying to shoehorn it into the conversation. The hosts should have known crypto is unnecessary for a solarpunk present or future. Instead we could be talking about real solutions like mutual aid, free stores, and library economies. The hosts failed to do the right thing.
Barring that, they should have refunded the money of Patreon donors asking for this speaker, saying that ethically they cannot platform crypto. The hosts failed to do the right thing.
They should have challenged Stephen Reid when he made fallacious arguments in favor of crypto. The hosts failed to do the right thing. After recording, the hosts should have realized their conversation wasn’t substantive and valuable. They could have refrained from uploading it or edited out the unopposed statements in favor of crypto. The hosts failed to do the right thing.
At the least they should have interjected context about those arguments, adding counterpoints and why crypto may not be the only solution or not a solution at all to any of solarpunk’s goals. The hosts failed to do the right thing.
They should have added a prelude or epilogue to the episode talking about any reservations about crypto or how the general conversation did not represent their solarpunk values. The hosts failed to do the right thing.
I have no confidence they will do the right thing in the future.
My first solarpunk novel releases today. You can discover Murder in the Tool Library at eBook retailers. For a paperback like I’m holding, you’ll have to wait until next week. (Barnes and Noble did me dirty.)
Systems that profit off the death of children must be dismantled. Governments complicit in genocide are illegitimate.
Original Photo: Belal Khaled
Children of the Al-Ghalban family were killed while playing in front of their house Saturday in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Systems that profit off the death of children must be dismantled. Governments complicit in genocide are illegitimate.
Photo: Belal Khaled Children of the Al-Ghalban family were killed while playing in front of their house Saturday in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Capitalism pays people top dollar to put on a badge and oppress their neighbors. What if instead of safeguarding inequality we prioritized protecting people from the ClimateCrisis. That’s what the American Climate Corps aims to do. What if instead of coercing citizens to become slave catchers to fill the prison-industrial complex we funded opportunity, paid teachers more, and started an #UBI to reduce the inequality and desperation that leads to crime. What if we put more money into prevention, rather than punishment, into mental health and fighting fires, into healthcare rather than driving people into bankruptcy. What if we guaranteed housing, took the speculation market out of living, so we didn’t have to force people onto the streets.
I’m dancing-on-photons happy to reveal the cover by Rita Fei for my upcoming solarpunk novel, Murder in the Tool Library. You can pre-order it on this site as well as on some more mainstream ones. The paperbook will be available on Barnes and Noble closer to the release date on Dec 8th.
See for local and remote actions: https://ilpsusinfo.wordpress.com/no2apec/
A government without the moral clarity to condemn genocide is not fit to govern.
Clearly I don’t have the right setup (or aptitude) for this kind of video. I’m only speaking at the camera because this is life-and-death important.