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cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/3868605...

I don’t think Solarpunk has normalised the idea that we could just routinely talk to animals.

Scientists in Belgrade came up with the idea of “planting” large tanks of water and algae in places where trees can’t grow. The tanks are 10-50x more efficient than a normal tree for the space it takes up and is in general highly sustainable, even creating excellent fertilizer in the process. You can skip about halfway...

“There’s more to life than culture, there’s dirt and … Get out ya labourer!”

Jumping from a previous post on education. Feel free to skip the first 7:30 minutes (which mostly defines solarpunk as a concept, I think we’re good on that in this space), but this seems like this Human Restoration Project is a good thing with the wonk behind it to make it functional. (extra linky just in case:...

Surprised to hear Singapore has a law which states that any building must create equal square footage of green space as the footprint it occupies. That’s pretty solarpunk, and probably something lawmakers anywhere could adopt.

I was watching this video, and the first thing that came to mind is how interesting it would be to the solarpunk community. It’s the story of a professor and his efforts to make a “cybertecture” island by getting coral reefs to grow on-demand.

This is a pretty neat DIY project to create a grid-less, solar powered access point.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2153810...

Designers from the Netherlands but they are solving problems in a pretty solarpunk way.

Oil is out, batteries are out....