Part 5

Solarpunk

5 lessons · about 125 minutes of reading, plus the fieldwork.

  1. 01What Solarpunk IsSolarpunk is a design position about power and energy, not a drawing style. Here is what it commits to, and where the label overreaches.24 min
  2. 02Appropriate Technology and Energy DescentA tool is appropriate when you own it, understand it, and can repair it. This is how to choose technology for a smaller energy budget.25 min
  3. 03Mutual Aid and the Community You Already HaveBuild with the neighbors you have, not the ones a brochure promised. Mutual aid is horizontal, and it starts with ten people who know your name.26 min
  4. 04The Local Food SystemA local food system is measured in stored calories, not in markets. What a county and a household actually need to eat through a winter.26 min
  5. 05Design for Repair and the Long HaulA design that cannot be repaired is a design that will be replaced. Repair is the maintenance a household owes the future, one tool at a time.24 min