For solarpunkers with a strong interest in urbanization and transit, this is a great newsletter that comes out once a week:
heroes plant trees: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dozens-of-countries-have-been-working-to-plant-great-green-wall-and-its-producing-results/
Good News Network
Dozens of Countries Are Working Together to Plant ‘Great Green Wall’ Across Africa – and It is Holding Back Poverty
The wall is only 15% complete and it’s already brought a renewed source of food, water, income, and resources into arid rural areas.
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The western culture offers a very distilled narrative on what technology is and who builds, owns and profits from it. Most non-technical audiences are unaware of how subjective this perspective is - and how strongly it favours well-marketed multinational corporations over local solutions. How can telling different stories help us democratize technology, especially in the Global South?"
https://19.re-publica.com/en/session/solarpunk-cyberpunk-popculture-technological-narratives-tldr
The western culture offers a very distilled narrative on what technology is and who builds, owns and profits from it. Most non-technical audiences are unaware of how subjective this perspective is - and how strongly it favours well-marketed multinational corporations over local solutions. How can telling different stories help us democratize technology, especially in the Global South?"
https://19.re-publica.com/en/session/solarpunk-cyberpunk-popculture-technological-narratives-tldr
re:publica 2019
Solarpunk, cyberpunk and popculture: Technological narratives tl;dr | re:publica 2019
The western culture offers a very distilled narrative on what technology is and who builds, owns and profits from it. Most non-technical audiences are unaware of how subjective this perspective is - and how strongly it favours well-marketed multinational…
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Conservative estimate of 4° of change, as compared to the 5° we are now locked into.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rY3jIsGMqM
This is a fantastic talk. We are facing harsh times ahead of us, but in community and solidarity there is strength to persevere and even thrive. Get involved, we all have a part to play.
This is a fantastic talk. We are facing harsh times ahead of us, but in community and solidarity there is strength to persevere and even thrive. Get involved, we all have a part to play.
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"Building Bridges: The Movement is Larger Than Any of Us Know" - Anarchapulco 2019 Presentation
This was my longest presentation from Anarchapulco 2019, focused on the ways in which many underestimate just how big the freedom movement is, ways we can co...
A SELSS is essentially a garden within which a human population can sustain itself indefinitely as an integrated function of its host ecological complexity. A SELSS is not just a home for humans supported by ecological systems (Closed Ecological Life Support system CELSS), but a home for a complex ecological system within which the day today life of its human inhabitants is fully integrated with the ecological system itself, an organism in its own right. The fractal nature of the FESA combined with SELSS ensures a uniform environment within which ecological complexity can grow and evolve over time. By this method, a FESA can theoretically span an entire planetary surface and thrive doing so.
https://astroekistics.com/2017/06/30/fractal-emergent-settlement-architecture-fesa/
https://astroekistics.com/2017/06/30/fractal-emergent-settlement-architecture-fesa/
The Institute of Astro-Ekistics
Fractal-Emergent Settlement Architecture (FESA)
Introduction Fractal Emergent Settlement Architecture (FESA) is a settlement system architecture plan developed by Nicholas A. Carlough. FESA is based upon a single structural module (Cell) wi…