A Solarpunk Manifesto

A Solarpunk Manifesto

William Joseph Gillam A Solarpunk Manifesto Turning Imaginary into Reality 10 August 2023

Solarpunk Futures

The social ecological storytelling game where you and your friends build a better world.

Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant – @the-lemonaut on Tumblr

💬 81  🔁 6317  ❤️ 9266 · Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant · Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there 🌸 You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out…

Solarpunk Futures

Players remember the stories of how their Ancestors built a Utopia.

Sunbeam City 🌻

Sunbeam City is a anticapitalist, antifascist solarpunk instance that is run collectively.

Elphinstone Farm (and regenerative solarpunk lab)

An aspiring small-scale agritech solarpunk venture on the Sunshine Coast, BC — building syntropic agroforestry labs, a native plant nursery, and a collaborative workspace.

Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I'm only a few chapters into Bill McKibben's stupendous new book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization and I already know it's going to change my outlook forever:

Palantir’s manifesto: Technofascism in plain sight

Because I get asked a lot.

solar meditation

The video contains imagery from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in five wavelengths of ultraviolet light. Scrubbing up and down reveals new layers, from sunspots on the solar surface to prominences extending outward in the corona.

The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown

Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state’s inherent properties and their environmental implications. Less attention has been paid to how the state’s green capacities are conditioned by contemporary evolutions in the form and pace of capital accumulation. Capitalism’s directional pattern of historical development poses unique challenges for green state projects. Its drive to raise labour productivity metabolises nature on a growing scale, while generating conditions of overproduction and rendering a progressively larger portion of the population superfluous to the production process.Thus, the question is not simply whether the state can rise to the challenge of climate change, but rather how states are scrambling to govern the intersecting crises of climate catastrophe, economic stagnation, and surplus humanity. This ‘wicked trinity’ compounds the tensions at the heart of the capitalist state, resulting in an increasing inability to perform its role while sustaining its liberal form. This governance trilemma is illustrated by the case of the solar photovoltaic boom, where the spectacular increase in the productivity and scale of solar panel manufacturing have generated oversupply and falling profitability. States have reacted by indefinitely providing subsidies, financing automation technologies thatexacerbate labour superfluity, and relocating solar panel manufacturing to places with authoritarian labour regimes. The case of photovoltaics is a microcosm of the general predicament faced by states as they struggle to govern capitalism’s secular developmental tendencies.

China’s Solar Industry Is in Upheaval—The Effects Will Be Global

Rather than opening space for rivals, China’s solar industry shakeout is forging a more resilient core — embedding deeper into global value chains, securing a technological lead, and reshaping the industry’s future trajectory to its own long-term advantage.

i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever, part 2: the punks.

“Cyberpunk 2077,” they said, “isn’t really Punk. It’s a Corporate Product, made out of Corporate Greed. It completely Misses The Point of…