Humble request: do you know of any real life experience of post-capitalist economies, even partial ones? Local currencies? Cooperative models? Community land trusts? Priority given to resilience over efficiency? #solarpunk economies? There are a few usual suspects (Mondragon, Cooperativa Integral Catalana, Transition Network...), but I struggle to find long lists of cases. Boost appreciated @g_kallis@jks@jasonhickel#postcapitalism#economics#degrowth#postgrowth
🇬🇧 Since the #cccamp23 's secret motto seems to be #solarpunk (and I'm all for it), we need a hashtag for the German #gardening (as in "grow your own food") community to find each other and exchange ideas here on Mastodon.
Why German? Well, it makes a difference whether you grow food in America or Africa or, well, Germany. The weather, climate and soil conditions and the native plants and bio diversity are quite different.
I'd like to connect to other people, who grow their own food in Germany.
Speaking of #SolarPunk, some Polish "internet celebrity art critic" type did a truly galaxy-brained "takedown" of that genre and… let's just say that I stopped reading after:
> The first obvious problem with Solarpunk is what are the characters supposed to do at night?
I like doing economic analysis of #sciencefiction work (man needs a hobby, I guess). Looking for advice: what do I read next? Preference for recent work depicting #solarpunk economic systems.
Huh. It's really easy to start a cult. I have customers joining, without asking for ANY details.
Me: "You wanna join my cult?"
People who barely know me: "Yes."
I have people in charge of snacks, the library, the cat sanctuary, the maker space, and I'm negotiating with a local heavy metal band for our worship music program.
When there's a new RPG on the block claiming to do #Solarpunk, I'm obviously interested. Recently, @FullyAutomatedRPG made its way to me via @fiction so I'm giving it a look. What does it want to do? It wants to be a kind of D&D for Solarpunk – a big kitchen sink game that becomes a cornerstone for the genre. That's… Hm, I like my RPGs written with a lightning focus on telling specific stories, so I feel like I'll be biased against #FullyAutomated, but let's see. 1/8
For the past week, I've been serializing the prologue of The Lost Cause, my #solarpunk novel of a post-#GreenNewDeal backlash that comes out on November 14:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
When writing my #solarpunk essay to the Polish ZNAK magazine I was asked to write a section outlining the differences between the movement and #longtermism (together with #effectiveAltruism, #transhumanism and more).
I think it's important to understand what #TESCREAL (a term coined by Timnit Gebru) is and how it might be one of the dominating narratives on our future in the coming years.
Putting in a sample order via Alibaba for some grow lights.
If it works out, will be putting in a bulk order for local friends and community. We all pitch in an get only what we need. But because we buy in bulk together, we don't have to pay for someone else's middleman profits.
These grow lights go for $10 per unit on Amazon. I'm getting them for $3 per unit wholesale (that's total costs with shipping, credit card fee, tax, etc). I think they're the exact same thing. Like... I'm buying directly from the manufacturer and not through a drop shipper / middleman.
Himmel, ich habe in der Mittagspause mal Leonardo.AI ein paar Solarpunk-Städte entwerfen lassen - und das Programm gebeten, dabei das sonst gerne vernachlässigte Thema Wasser zu berücksichtigen. Ich staune immer noch, hier ein Beispiel! #Leonardo#KI#Kunst#Solarpunk#Stadt#Wasser#Wasserkrise#Arche
Okay, #solarpunk nerds, I got a question about surplus energy:
We don't yet have this thing where you can sell your surplus energy back to the grid. I want to know when that will change.
Specifically: Is this a national thing? Municipal? Are there already places in South Africa that have it, and if so, do they erode your earnings with bullshit fees and tariffs or are they pretty cool about it? Is the purchase price the same as the selling price?
FWIW, this isn't about making money, so much as offsetting the equipment (cooking and heating) that is still directly on grid power. My panels harvest more energy than my typical daily consumption, but I can only store some of that in my battery. It would be nice to be able to bank the rest of it with the grid provider, and then withdraw it as needed.
After three long years of struggling with the book and analyzing it I finally put my thoughts into a coherent blogpost. I never expected the Ministry to be #solarpunk , but I hoped that it will paint a future to look forward to.