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Also known as solar punk

thumb|241x241px|Solarpunk may take practical inspiration from Earthships, which are an example of [[sustainable architecture.]] Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating su

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Commons category
Solarpunk
inception
2008-00-00
Mastodon instance URL
sunbeam.city
hashtag
solarpunk
Lemmy instance URL
slrpnk.net
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  • Background
  • Themes and philosophy
  • Renewable energy
  • Refusing pessimism
  • Sustainable technology
  • Do-it-yourself ethos
  • Social equity
  • Art movement and aesthetics
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Film
  • Criticism
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
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thumb|241x241px|Solarpunk may take practical inspiration from Earthships, which are an example of [[sustainable architecture.]] Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.

As a science fiction literary subgenre and art movement, solarpunk works to address how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment, and addressing climate change and pollution. Especially as a subgenre, it is aligned with cyberpunk derivatives, and may borrow elements from utopian and fantasy genres.

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