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Summary: About Solarpunk City. Summary: About Solarpunk City.
Solarpunk City is... Solarpunk City's mission is to build and share resources, knowledge and tools to help all of us build a solarpunk world.
All of our designs, software, hardware and knowledge are open source.
Use them to build resilient and sovereign sources for food, energy, water and shelter.
Please use them and contribute your own improvements.
Try to use zero marginal cost economics as much as you can to lower the barrier-to-entry.
Engage and grow together.
Find your friends, partners and allies.
All humans are valued.
Turn your city into a Solarpunk City.

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Summary: About the Solarpunk genre. Summary: About the Solarpunk genre.
Solarpunk is a genre of speculative fiction that envisions a future in which renewable energy sources and sustainable practices are the norm. It's in contrast to the dystopian visions of cyberpunk and other science fiction genres that portray a bleak and oppressive future. Scientists and engineers don't create world-changing technology alone.
Science fiction writers create ideas, inventions and worlds that scientists and engineers later build.
# Don't Look at the Hazard
When driving or biking in dangerous terrain, the best way to avoid the danger is to not look at the hazards.
We tend to go where we look, so look where you should go.
When driving, look at the open road, not the accident.
When biking, look at the path, not the tree.
In the matter of building our world, hazards dominate our fiction and media.
Dystopian works of fiction (cyberpunk) focus on high-tech and low-life.
Dystopian, outrage porn fill our screens and our feeds.
When the focus of our minds eye is on hazards, it is towards the hazards we will go.
# The Open Road
Solarpunk is the open road.
Solarpunk focuses on high-life and how to get there, whether high-tech or low-tech.
Solarpunk is a genre of fiction that envisions a future in which renewable energy sources and sustainable practices are the norm.
Solarpunk rejects pessimism, cynicism and defeatism in favor of hope, effort and ingenuity.
Solarpunk encourages on pragmatism and do-it-yourself.
![[solarpunk1.jpg]] ![[solarpunk1.jpg]]
Solarpunk stories often feature vibrant, green cities filled with community gardens, solar panels, and other forms of sustainable technology. Characters in solarpunk stories are often activists, artists, and other individuals who are working to create a more just and equitable world. Solarpunk stories often feature vibrant, green cities filled with community gardens, solar panels, and other forms of sustainable technology.
Characters in solarpunk stories are often activists, artists, and other individuals who are working to create a more just and equitable world.
Solarpunk is not just a literary genre, but also a movement that seeks to inspire people to take action towards a more sustainable future. It is a call to imagine a world that is not only livable but also beautiful and inspiring.
Solarpunk is not just a literary genre or artistic movement.
It is a movement that inspires people to take action towards a sustainable future.
It is a call to imagine and build a world that is not only livable but also beautiful, inspiring and vibrant for all.
We're here to make solarpunk a reality.