Not exactly what you asked for, but maybe worth a look anyway… Peaceful Village is interested in promoting vegan anarchist books on their website: https://peacefulvillage.org/free-books/

Prevention. The fewer people coming through the hospital, the less waste generated. If someone comes in with a problem that can be solved permanently (e.g. type 2 diabetes), solve it the first time so that they won’t be back.

Or all of the above.

For those who read this and aren’t sure what to do, living vegan and planting fruit trees are very effective steps toward uprooting the capitalist system that’s wreaking havoc in the world.

For anyone interested, the folks at Amazon Restore seem very much aligned with the ideas of ecological sustainability and personal freedom and how these two things support each other. (I am too, of course.)

I am NOT Jim West.

Grass is a pestilence that should be eradicated worldwide, but legumes can be excellent support species, and some even make tasty fruits. Dialium guineense is one that most people don’t seem to know, but apparently bonobos like it!

food forests

I would argue that growing your own food and NOT cooking it is even more revolutionary.

I found this to be an intriguing summary: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:whatissolarpunk

I am a furry woodland creature, and I approve this meme.

EDIT: I am using “furry” as a synonym for “mammalian” here.

my bees

my goats and chickens and cows

A solarpunk culture would strive to dissolve every form of social hierarchy and domination – whether based on class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, or species – dispersing the power some individuals or groups wield over others and thus increasing the aggregate freedom of all; empowering the disempowered and including the excluded. It is rooted in the legacy of such liberatory movements as anti-authoritarian socialism, feminism, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, disability struggles, animal liberation, and digital freedom projects.

Owning other beings as property is not solarpunk.

It is both a technological and a political issue. The technology would need to be designed in such a way as to not collect “sensitive” data about anyone and to anonymise whatever data needs to be collected. This would not be simple to implement in a way that would prevent abuse, but the example of a motion sensor rather than a video camera would be the sort of thing that I imagine. To what extent a “smart city” could be developed using only privacy-respecting technology, I don’t know, but at least some options do exist.

This begs the question, would it be possible in a world without politicians? In an anarchist society, for example, where capitalism and the state have been abolished, could there be a technologically-advanced “smart city” that did not violate anyone’s privacy? I think that that is the more interesting question. In the world as it is today, of course this would not work.

Riding a goose to work is not compatible with the solarpunk values of anti-speciesism and animal liberation.

Meh. I’ve never even seen such a soil, and I can grow food just fine here. Society has overstayed its welcome anyway.

Banana~ 🙃

Gardening is all fine and good, but food forests are the gateway to true ecological sustainability, as they (can) offer the full spectrum of ecosystem services that a forest provides.

Growing food and addressing deforestation and climate change with like-minded neighbours, while consuming as little as possible from the commercial cesspools of the world, is what I consider a realistic approach to solarpunk, at least for me. I’ve not found long-term neighbours who share the same goals, but I’ve met some cool people, and I continue to plant fruit trees and find ways to use natural materials from the forest rather than buying something. I cannot manufacture electronics or forge steel tools, but otherwise, in the long term, I could pretty much live off of the land with the help of the occasional volunteer who has construction experience.

Living vegan (choosing total liberation for all sentient beings) and refusing to accept the cyberpunk dystopian world of non-free software are also major aspects for me; solarpunk is anti-oppression. Many people seem to miss that part, but to me it is crucial, and it is what makes solarpunk appealing and sets it apart.

I’m not so optimistic about new energy technologies, but old-fashioned water-wheels and such are still just as viable as ever, and in the long term, I foresee a return to (modernised/improved versions of) such technologies being useful.

As other commenters have pointed out, community is an important aspect of solarpunk, and it seems like it needs to be a major aspect of any anarchist movement, as “we” are greatly outnumbered by those who support the status quo, and we will need to support each other in order to achieve a lasting cultural shift on even the local level. There are already some vegan intentional communities and regenerative neighbourhood projects and food forest projects and even explicitly solarpunk communities making an effort to bring about a more ethical and sustainable world, and anyone looking into aligning their lifestyle with solarpunk values might consider joining one or starting their own when life in the city reveals itself to be untenable.

Let’s get out there and take action! People need to get out of their comfort zones and protect what’s left of the natural world before it’s too late. Anarchist projects saving the forest, supporting each other voluntarily… that would be nice.

I live in the rainforest. There is zero grass here except in the places that have been disturbed by humans.