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What are some simple ways to live a solarpunk life? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are some great ideas in there, but I don't quite think that what you are describing is solarpunk. More like a eco-socialist The list needs more solar and more punk:

More solar ideas:

Build your own house battery system
Install solar panels, geothermal heating/cooling
capture rainwater for plants/animals
Plant trees. Lots of trees.
Use small computers to automate plant watering/hydroponics systems *Indoor vertical farming
run for local government to spread solarpunk ideas and help take action
Learn to sew, make clothes from repurposed textiles/mend clothes instead of buying new ones
start a blog/website spreading solarpunk ideas
create music/art with solarpunk ideas

More punk ideas:

Seed bombing
Destroying/vandalizing infrastructure used for fossil fuels
Destroy/vandalize heavy machinery used for biodiversity destruction (road construction, mining, single-family housing developments)
join/create an intentional community or eco village
blockade roads, drastically slowing economic activity
Blockade private/executive airports
Pirate software, research papers, textbooks, and help keep information open source
create music/art spreading solarpunk ideas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some great ideas in there, but I don’t quite think that what you are describing is solarpunk. More like a eco-socialist

My thinking was more of a what are things, which have a good impact / easyness ratio. That means a lot of these solutions use our current system to a fairly large extend, as it makes them easier to do. Thats propably, why you get socialist vibes. Also I tried to stay away from "criminal" stuff, as that does carry a fairly high risk and is propably a bad place to start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Again, if it's bad depends on the personal perspective and context. Both of your ideas are great, the more mainstream ones as well as the more 'criminal' ones. People who currently have kids, for example, might want to opt for a more crime-free style, younger people might feel more angry and want to get active. Usually I am more for the constructive than the destructive, but that might just reflect my relatively comfortable position in life.