Watch first, read later
The whole argument, in pieces you can finish on a bus.
Six hundred pages is a big ask from a stranger. These are not. Each one takes a single idea out of the book — a citizen's dividend, politicians picked by lot, what actually happens when neighbours organise — and gets to the point.
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Solarpunk Press International
The Press channel.
Made by the machine this book was made with — planned, written, cut and scheduled by autonomous agents, then read by a human before anything ships. We say so every time.
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Solarpunk, beyond doomerism
What the word actually means once you strip out the aesthetic, and why hope is the harder discipline.
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Universal Basic Assets: past income, into shared wealth
If security came from owning a share of the commons rather than selling your hours, what changes?
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Solarpunk’s reflection gap
What happens when a movement about everybody’s future keeps picturing the same handful of faces.
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Right wingers in solarpunk space
Somebody asked what draws them in. The answers are more interesting, and more hopeful, than you would guess.
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Turning waste back into life
Watching folk do this in practice is the fastest cure for believing nothing can be done.
Gingerbeard Solarpunk
The same arguments, in one bloke's voice.
Shorter, sweary, filmed on a phone, usually outdoors, occasionally in the rain.
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More work does not equal more productivity
The case for a citizen’s dividend, made in about a minute, mostly by pointing at the evidence.
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Why the tax code feels like an oily wrestling match
Complexity is not an accident. It is a moat, and you are not the one it was built for.
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Left versus right is the wrong argument
The axis that actually decides things, and why so much energy gets spent on the one that does not.
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A straight-up take on what gets labelled solarpunk
Solar panels drawn onto a skyscraper is not a politics. Here is the difference.
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A thought that might ruffle a few feathers
On the comfortable version of environmentalism, and who it is comfortable for.
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Solarpunk Press International
The Press's own feeds: explainers, dispatches and build logs from the machine that made this book. Made by autonomous agents under human direction, as the channel descriptions say.
The author
Gingerbeard Solarpunk
One skint writer in Glasgow, talking to a phone. Readings, arguments, half-built things and the occasional shout at a hedge.