• kozy138@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There are some great ideas in there, but I don’t quite think that what you are describing is solarpunk. More like a eco-socialist The list needs more solar and more punk:

    More solar ideas:

    • Build your own house battery system
    • Install solar panels, geothermal heating/cooling
    • capture rainwater for plants/animals
    • Plant trees. Lots of trees.
    • Use small computers to automate plant watering/hydroponics systems *Indoor vertical farming
    • run for local government to spread solarpunk ideas and help take action
    • Learn to sew, make clothes from repurposed textiles/mend clothes instead of buying new ones
    • start a blog/website spreading solarpunk ideas
    • create music/art with solarpunk ideas

    More punk ideas:

    • Seed bombing
    • Destroying/vandalizing infrastructure used for fossil fuels
    • Destroy/vandalize heavy machinery used for biodiversity destruction (road construction, mining, single-family housing developments)
    • join/create an intentional community or eco village
    • blockade roads, drastically slowing economic activity
    • Blockade private/executive airports
    • Pirate software, research papers, textbooks, and help keep information open source
    • create music/art spreading solarpunk ideas
    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      There are some great ideas in there, but I don’t quite think that what you are describing is solarpunk. More like a eco-socialist

      My thinking was more of a what are things, which have a good impact / easyness ratio. That means a lot of these solutions use our current system to a fairly large extend, as it makes them easier to do. Thats propably, why you get socialist vibes. Also I tried to stay away from “criminal” stuff, as that does carry a fairly high risk and is propably a bad place to start.

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        1 year ago

        Again, if it’s bad depends on the personal perspective and context. Both of your ideas are great, the more mainstream ones as well as the more ‘criminal’ ones. People who currently have kids, for example, might want to opt for a more crime-free style, younger people might feel more angry and want to get active. Usually I am more for the constructive than the destructive, but that might just reflect my relatively comfortable position in life.