Solarpunk

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Sorry if I have accidentally reposted it

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A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

Back side of perovskite panel achieves more than 90 per cent of the efficiency of the front side

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate this group and the ideas being shared. After a long period of being stuck in corporate media this feels like somewhat of an online home. At least it's a place where most are civil and no ads and irrelevant content are being thrown at me. It feels more quiet and I like that very much. Also, thanks to the tech-heaviness of Lemmy, I'm back to tinkering and just started learning about self-hosting. Before arriving here I wasted time scrolling kilometers on several unspeakable big social media portals. Some years back I used to call myself a tech hippie. But solarpunk is fine too.

Advertisements are a scourge upon society, the environment, and ourselves. They are among the worst capitalism has to offer. Why not get rid of them?

Designers from the Netherlands but they are solving problems in a pretty solarpunk way.

I wake up and get dressed in one of the three outfits I own, which is locally crafted with enough quality to last a decade, and only washed when it needs to be
I have a breakfast of fruit from the trees outside and locally made bread
I pull out my phone, which is the only one I've ever owned and will last my whole life, and talk to my friends over a messaging app that works over a distributed network owned by the whole community
There's an alert that the hydro generator at the creek is broken, so I 3D print a part from open designs and go replace it. The old part is put in my plastic-composting bin, which uses genetically engineered bacteria to break down plastic
I hop on my bicycle and ride to the local train station. The tracks have moss between them and trees overhead. The trains are powered by a renewable power grid
I don't lock up my bike at the rack, because everyone already has a bicycle and there's no point in stealing them, they're free
So is the train
The city is dense, to reduce its land footprint, and made from sustainable materials. Housing is free
There are no cars, and the trees grow everywhere with sound dampening leaves, so it's pleasantly quiet
I have some tea at a restaurant, because coffee beans can't be grown locally. It's free
I breathe in clean air, and thank my pagan gods that I live in a sensible society

Hey there! So after taking your advice this is the result. Ended up going with the following setup, nothing too over the top:

• OS: Debian 12 - bookworm
• Color Scheme • Everforest - Good vibes!
• Icons • Papyrus
• Terminal • Alacritty
• Desktop • Gnome
• Gnome tweaks and extension for shell theme and dock
• Showoff stuff • cbonsai, catnip (sound visualizer) and ranger (as suggested), still doing the dynamic wallpaper thing but because it's for KDE Plasma I'll have to find an alternative or code it myself.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6709423

On Monday, July 10, 2023, residents throughout the northeast were flooded by a 1-in-100 year storm, brought on by the climate crisis. A few days later, intense rainfall continued to hit the region, flooding additional towns, washing out roads, and impairing relief efforts that were already underway. Some of the worst flooding took place in Vermont, a state known as one of the best areas to survive climate chaos, demonstrating that no region is safe from the impacts of humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels and ecocidal economics. But as people’s trust in a geographic refuge has weakened, trust in an interwoven, multi-dimensional refuge made up of our love and solidarity for each other is strengthening.

Since Studio Ghibli is listed in the Solarpunk manifesto as an official aspect of our aesthetic, I was shocked to see 0 subscriptions to Studio Ghibli on this instance.

Studio Ghibli

!ghibli@lemmy.world

Grown for centuries by indigenous farmers in rural Mexico, this incredibly rare corn can self-fertilise. In episode three of 'Planet Fix', we explore how thi...

glowing in the east end

Worldwide, researchers are hunting for a kind of `secret sauce’ — a souped-up enzyme capable of breaking down some of the most resilient plastics.

Not fully sold on it, but I do like the aesthetics.

Can an (overly) optimistic science fiction genre help inspire a new generation of Leftists?

Hello everybody!! This is my first post on this instance, glad to be here! So this is a bit of a tangent from most topics I saw here but I wanted to get the opinion of people that's immersed in the aesthetic of solarpunk.

I'm modding debian (linux) to create a sort of solarpunk software aesthetic. For this I take any suggestions you might have, backgrounds, color palettes small placeholders text anything.

Green Shades is the first system in the world that allows the installation of vegetable awnings, that is, tensile sails covered with vegetation, opening a

This is the introductory flavor text to a tabletop RPG I'm working on (which is currently in beta if anyone wants to try it!). For context, the game is meant to provide solarpunk action adventure, and is intended to deliberately subvert the tone of cyberpunk RPG games. Constructive feedback is encouraged.

" Ablation narrowed their feline eyes as they assessed the situation. The Basalt Assault crew had the team pinned down. Ore was barreling towards them at terrifying speed. With all other options gone, Ablation silently prayed to the spirits and took their only shot. It was a desperate fade-away from behind the three, but it landed. The net swished. And the crowd lost their shit.

Just then, an urgent message broke through Ablation’s call block to appear in their HUD. It was from Rez, and read “PRIORITY 1”. Ablation grabbed their comm collar from the courtside bench. The moment its conduction speaker contacted their neck the ringer blared to life in their head.

“Hey Rez. Report?”

“Suppression-extraction. Malibu. I’m enroute to you now. Can you clear Pegasus a space?”

“Yeah. Who’s the target?” Ablation turned to the other players. “Make some room!”

“It’s a commune of fifty sovereigns. They refused assist yesterday. Since then their primary and backup heat absorbers failed.”

Ablation looked toward the virtual indicator in their AR contact lenses. It was quickly replaced by the sight of the actual rotorcycle as it approached in biospace. By now the crowd on the grassy hillside and the neighboring balconies were looking in the same direction.

“What’s the timeline?”

“They say they have enough gel to hold out 30 minutes, so… that.” Dust momentarily gusted around Ablation as Rez decelerated sharply, setting Pegasus down on the half court line as they cut the rotors. Ablation disabled away mode on their HUD and saw the flood of reacts from the crowd, along with an excited greeting emoji from Pegasus. Plus a warning from Ore that Ablation had better get back safe and finish business.

“You still know how to don a firesuit on the back of a bike?”

Ablation popped the cargo trunk, doffed their shoes and skirt, and stepped into the lower half of the firesuit. They threw their things in the trunk and swung a leg over Pegasus’ back seat. “That’s funny, Rez. Spin it.”

“Alright, Peg, you heard ’em: if they fall off they can’t blame us for flying too fast.” Pegasus gave a laugh react and a thumbs up and spun up her rotors. The park and its crowd dropped away fast, and Ablation’s vision filled with briefing text and the real time location of an airship steaming towards the plume of smoke rising from one section of the Santa Monica mountains. The rescue would be dangerous and uncertain. But then again, saving something always is. "___

Hope the day has been treating everyone well!

Over the past few months, I've written several articles that aim to define certain aspects of a fully sustainable world. After writing the last couple of articles, I wanted to really explore those concepts within a story. To really get a sense of how life might actually play out. Below I have a link to a story where I put together elements of an open travel society, a shared community, and food culture together:

[SOL001] - A Kitchen Story

I had fun writing the sections that I explored, and hope that reading through it was equally enjoyable. Would love any feedback or opinions that you may have. What did you think of the narrative? Could you envision yourself in that world? Would you buy a solarpunk cookbook filled with short stories?

Hope the rest of the day goes well and thanks for reading! :)