Love that. Thanks for sharing. I can also say they sometimes light up this Ferry Building in Christmas colors, which happen to be the colors of the Palestinian flag. When I project Free Palestine then, it is color coordinated and makes it seem the city is in on it.

Also trying to speak to homelessness here.

Thank you! Will get to work on the next story soon.

Thanks for beta reading. That is essential to the writing process.

Illustrator Bochica uses knowledge to make the world a better place, to help people express the utopia inside them. He is a social muralist, who supports war-victims communities in Colombia. Concerning the cover art, he wrote the following:

*The technique used was mixed, acrylic and ink on canvas. Painting this piece was a real challenge—synthesizing and imagining a culture made of many ancestral cultures. The arch was inspired by art nouveau but also by Hindu art, while the figures reference both southern and northern Native American cultures. The pillars are like “totems” of Native American origin, but the figures are inspired by Indigenous peoples of South America and the South Pacific, from Easter Island, the Maori, through the Incas to the Mayans and Aztecs. These columns also reference the legend of “Huitaca” from the muysca people, which speaks of a demon who ascended and became the owl—a symbol of wisdom and knowledge in many cultures. In this case, I wanted to refer to the novel’s great library. The circles are inspired by the sun but are also inspired by speakers, referencing the “voice of the people” and social organization within solarpunk.

At the top, there’s a kind of staircase inspired by the “chakana,” an Incan symbol representing the connection between the human world and higher realms.

The mermaid is inspired by “Yemaya,” who is an Orisha or goddess in the Yoruba culture from Haiti.*

I appreciate you being clear this isn’t solarpunk. It is contorting economics to try to make it humane.

Please be clear in your post these are by the Lemonaut.

dragon wings solar Generators 💚💚💚 I will point out that even here, people are not deploying those blimp wind turbines, which are supposed to be good for emergency power.

We had a fun discussion last weekend. Feel free to join us anytime. This is an anthology, so you can jump in, read that week’s stories, and hop on the call. Here is a new link in case the last timed out. https://discord.gg/x25VrwFC

Also, it has good examples of nonviolent bravery.

As much as I love bioluminescence, it is too dim to do more than mark paths.

I take it LED’s have trouble producing a single wavelength?

Thanks! Feels like they recommend something closest to option two. https://darksky.org/resources/guides-and-how-tos/lighting-principles/

I do not have much faith in motion sensors differentiating between animals and humans. Also, if they only turn on when your close, that might not help with perceived danger.

I only read the solarpunk specific posts, and it is very positive. (I get more negative news when I’m ready for it on Bluesky.)

Not very topical, but hilarious nonetheless.

Well, it is a legit question for solarpunks whether or not they should engage in a dead-end system, so I wanted to talk about it.

If you can’t be bothered to spend half a day voting when it could save the lives of people in your community, you are too far gone to reason with. Or just a fascist shill.

You can burn down the system any day. Voting comes only once every few years.

And if you read the post or watch the video instead of trying to discourage people from voting, you will see I have considered this and speak to it.

Clearly I don’t have the right setup (or aptitude) for this kind of video. I’m only speaking at the camera because this is life-and-death important.

Would you recommend compost toilets as a way to not waste human waste? I’m trying to imagine how that would work at city scale. Would communities cart the waste to their rooftop and nextdoor food forests? Would garage-truck style vehicles help in moving it?

As I suspected, the majority (59%) believe that skyscrapers with green stuff on them were solarpunk. This isn’t largely true, but I think the main entry point is people enjoy imagining better cities.

I am trying to create solarpunk art with more practical options for verdant urban spaces.