What might the future look like if humanity could figure out how to solve our problems by making sustainability a primary criteria?
Images from @solarpunkart, Chobani/The LINE, Dinotopia, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Bloomberg,Marco Casagrande, and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
My friend and client Jamie Wolf first turned me on to the concept of Solarpunk many months ago. He had me at hello. According to Wiki it "is a genre and art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, climate change and pollution. It is a subgenre within science fiction, aligned with cyberpunk derivatives, and may borrow elements from utopian and fantasy genres. Contrasted to cyberpunk's use of a dark aesthetic with characters marginalized or subsumed by technology in settings that illustrate artificial and domineering built environments, solarpunk uses settings where technology enables humanity to sustainably co-exist with its environment with Art Nouveau-influenced aesthetics that convey feelings of cleanliness, abundance and equability."
It's a field big enough to merit a cannon. Fortunately Paul Fletcher-Hill has gathered such a collection of books, essays, and films for people exploring Solarpunk today.
He says that "many of these I've already shared or written about on the Solarpunk Substack newsletter, but I thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place for easy sharing."
Article: Solarpunk Cannon