Hello #booktodon and #publiclibrary friends. How do you imagine the library of the future? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
- What kind of place will it be/how will it look like?
- Who will you meet there?
- What will be offered (media, activities, etc.)?
Dream Builders is out in the world!
20 blueprints for futures built with kindness, courage, and creativity. If you believe tomorrow can be better — this is your book. 🚀🌍Grab your copy today! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6XXPS8Y
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Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.
It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?
*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.
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https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-
Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.
https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk
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Are you ready for Season Three? Our first episode goes out to our Patrons on June 19!
If you're not already a Patron, consider supporting the show for as little as $5 USD / month here: https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkpresents
Solarpunk Presents is a two-person volunteer operation, and while we're passionate about bringing the world solarpunk content to enjoy, our combined enthusiasm doesn't pay our hosting fees - or compensate us in any way for all the research, writing, recording, and editing that we do ;) Not to mention providing edited transcripts! We're hoping to make this a self-sustaining enterprise without resorting to ads, but we need help.
Non-monetary support means a lot to us also: we love feedback, so please do take a moment to write us a review on iTunes or your podcatcher of choice. If you have a favourite episode, please share it! Word of mouth recommendations to colleagues, friends and family is not only helpful to podcasts, but helps the solarpunk movement as a whole.
-Ariel
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‘If we fail to support our #LGBTQ+ #youth now, they will face #devastating #consequences’.
#Growingup #LGBTQ+ is still #unacceptably #tough, finds #JustLikeUs’ new #report, #positivefutures
SEASON TWO FINALE IS HERE!
In episode 2.10 of Solarpunk Presents, join @xtinadlr and @arielkroon for a conversation that revisits episode one of season two and discusses (among other things), #rewilding and #ecofascism - we promise it's not super doom-laden, though!
Getting urgently-needed #environmental protection and rewilding right requires facing the evils that have been historically committed in the name of #conservation, so that we don’t repeat those grave mistakes, even with the best of intentions. As #solarpunks, we need to learn from the past in order to shape #futures that are intentionally better than our pasts and presents.
Listen to the episode here: https://tinyurl.com/yyr73dew
And that’s a wrap for season 2! Season 3 will be coming along in the last week of June for #Patreon supporters, and to the public in the first week of July. Until then, keep dreaming, and keep up the good work!
-Ariel
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Imagine 2200, Grist.org's climate fiction story contest for positive futures, is open for submissions. I'm a judge and would love to see your ideas and imaginings of where we can go and what we can be.
Complete info here: https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/
Please share, and please submit your stories!
#Climate #ClimateFiction #ClimateChange #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #SolarPunk #Environment #EnvironmentWriting #PositiveFutures
@timaeus Yes *and* I've found that it's almost surprisingly easy to make the shift once a certain tipping point is reached, and that once you've gone over it the new possibilities seem obvious and easy. I got rid of my last car seven years ago and the cascading effect on my life and health has been so absolutely wonderful. (Of course the issue is getting others there; I mostly just try to share how much freer and easier my life has become as a result.)
