Solarpunk Cities and Library Economies

Wasn't quite sure where to post this, saw no topics to these concepts, thought it might be worth sharing the interesting ideas of the day I stumbled across...






https://isabelledrury.substack.com/p/the-library-economy-a-saving-grace

I tripped over this video:



I never agree with everything someone says on a controversial subject, but he makes some good points. The "extreme" or "perfection"  could be the excuse for not aiming for a more realistic version of a renewable world.

The images he showed and the information he covered was still very "big city" focused. I think many of us are of the opinion that most of our cities are broken - too big, too energy dependent, and too fragile if the s--t really hits the rotary impeller. We have to consider who benefits from these concrete jungles, and who are struggling within them, and help the struggling to see ways to help themselves even if that's as basic as learning to cook a little and grow sprouts on their window ledges. Many apartment dwellers already have a houseplant or three. Why can't those houseplants be a mini-tomato plant with some walking onion sharing the pot?

SolarPunk is in the air!

I've previously come across this guy on a (much less nice) social media channel. He's actually living the Solar Punk lifestyle since 2015!
Check out his website here .

A good friend shared this video with me today about SolarPunk!
While I'm not agreeing on the political views, it does have interesting thought seeds to try out.

Google tells me that there are no solarpunk cities in Texas.

Austin is very progressive and that is where solarpunk might be planned in the future.

Being in the boondocks, I never heard of this and probably will never see such a project.

I love the concept of solar punk. Taking the idea that oil gets so high that instead of depending on it, we expand out as a community to modernize our older energy production methods and other needs of a community. Alot of what we see in pictures is very much fantasized. But people instead of a corporation being in charge of energy would create localized diverse methods that would use cheap locally sourced junk, er I mean resources and celebrating our different cultures and life style while doing it is a pretty cool permi idea. Theres also the idea that a city should have everything you need daily within a 15 minuet bike ride and to bring back the god darn trains gosh darn it!

Also I think earth ships fit into the solarpunk genre quite well.