Ecology, social politics, and technology. DIY guides, short solarpunk stories, and articles about prefiguring new futures.
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 movement are all connected to our current moment.
After being banned from Mailgun and AWS SES trying to get my Ghost blog to send emails - I just ended up developing my own solution and create a repo that uses Brevo API calls to deliver emails.
The new Sunshine and Seedlings blog is live at blog.hydroponictrash.solar - Thank you for being a subscriber!
Some of the hurdles moving to ghost. Tips on Mailgun, fixing ActivityPub, and bypassing Mailgun with AWS SES.
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.