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September 2019

The Higher Values of Love
To fellow solarpunk writers: I deeply hope that our stories are built on a foundation of the higher values of love — kindness, respect, cooperation, the…
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What is Solarpunk?
It’s not easy to imagine positive futures, given the world we live in, and it’s even more difficult to elucidate pragmatic solutions to real-world…
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Melanie
Solar Power on a Cloudy Planet
In 2010, I began building a world — an earth-like planet with a particularly cloudy atmosphere, a planet I named Luratia (lur - ray - sha).
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A New Renaissance
I have an unshakable belief that another Renaissance is in us—a rebirth of cultural values and modes of living that will arise from a bold, new…
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Green vs. Sustainable vs. Regenerative
What is the difference between green design, sustainable design, and regenerative design?
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Community as a Joint Work of Art
Imagine a small community of people who treat each other with dignity and respect and at least a modicum of love. It can be a family, a business, a…
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Can We Geoengineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
Climate change has been on the radar for more than 20 years, but complete solutions remain elusive, and efforts to mitigate against a larger carbon…
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Appropedia
Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that - it is a green wiki, and a wiki for all matters of…
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The Fuller Challenge Archives
Buckminster Fuller Challenge winners are distinguished by their comprehensive, whole-systems approach to design and implementation. In the 1960’s Fuller…
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BBC Future Now
BBC Future Now is a compendium of fascinating articles that delve deep into climate and tech issues and imagine feasible solutions, such as, What to do…
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