The intersection of ecology, social politics, and technology. DIY guides, short solarpunk stories, and articles about building dual power and prefiguring a better future during climate collapse.
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People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movemen
Self hosting, why I'm leaving Substack, and where things go from here.
Like fungi, we will decompose the rot around us to create something new. On mycelium, permacomputing, and the fractals of a greater pattern.
They tried to bury us, but little did they know - we were seeds.
A guide on building autonomous communication networks with LoRa that work without wider communications infrastructure. Combining techniques for resistance, resilience, and persistence.
Thoughts on how we can create federated and interconnected ecovillages, create networks of semi nomadic housing, and use technology to help us make it happen.
How plants can make medicine, food, bricks, clothes, fuel, compost and more all while sequestering carbon and how we can collectively work towards autonomy and ecological regeneration.
To adapt to the changing climate, we need to radically rethink how and why we do the things we do. From technology, to social movements, to economics. The world is at stake. And we can change it.
An exercise in design fiction, creating fictional products and objects for a speculative world. A mega-corporation creates a VR headset, and an autonomous collective pushes back.
How the intersections of these ideas might show us how a good life might feel in a postcapitalist, ecological, and equal future.
A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.
Part of a series of responses while taking a course by the Institute for Social Ecology: "Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics".
We want to build the world we want to see. How building free stores and open libraries of books, tools, resources, and things can bring us closer to a post-capitalist future.
An exploration of ideas that cross between computer science & tech, Solarpunk, and radical forms of political organizing.
Broadcast a digital library of challenged or banned books with a portable anti-censorship e-book server.
Expanding the uses of an autonomous network, and offering some ideas on the ways that autonomous and community controlled networking can lead to change.
Solarpunk as a concept has many ideas, some will lead to liberatory egalitarian societies, others will copy the old ideas and create a stratified technofudalist world. What will we choose?
How to make an off-grid micro 'internet' that can run off solar power (or any power) for emergencies, camping, protests, or building community autonomy and dual power.
Showing the influences of the 60s counterculture, learning from the counterculture, and imagining radically new futures in a hauntological time.
A quick introduction and summary of the points of the main piece.
