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Solarpunk, Stacktivism and Cold Texas | 2107
The Texas disaster has all the elements of a Solarpunk story.
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Solarpunk Is a Tumblr Vibe | Press
I recently spoke with builtin.com about Solarpunk and technology
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‘In the Storm, A Fire’ Longlisted – BSFA Award for Short Fiction
My Solarpunk short ‘In the Storm, A Fire‘ with Andrew Dana Hudson, has been long listed for the 2020 BSFA Award for Short Fiction.
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This is All Happening Right Now | Interdependence.fm
I was a guest on Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst’s excellent podcast Interdependence.fm this week.
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Proposed Supertask
We certainly do need better futures right now. Thats the supertask.
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SOLARPUNK – Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow
SLIDES AND SPEAKER NOTES FOR A TALK ON SOLARPUNK GIVEN AT UNSOUND FESTIVAL, KRAKOW, POLAND OCT 2019. JAY SPRINGETT IS A SOLARPUNK, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS. HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. JAY WRITES ONLINE UNDER THE HANDLE @THEJAYMO IF YOU’D LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS BLOG AND ITS VARIOUS PROJECTS,…
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105 :: ‘Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures’
When I was at Unsound Festival last week I bumped in to Journalist Jacobo García from Spain based Clot Mag. He told me over the deafening noise of Dreamcrusher that an article based on an interview I did with him at Sonar+D Festival was now online.
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“Dirt Behind Our Ears” : On Solarpunk and the Need for New Futures
Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”.
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Solarpunk
My association with Solarpunk began on the mailing list that organised weirdshitcon 2012. Shortly after, Adam Flynn began posting to solarpunks.net and published the essay: ‘On the Need for New Futures‘. Laying the foundational questions Solarpunk continues to explore. I later joined solarpunks.net as a co-admin in 2014 and have (along side many others) been…
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#Asperity
I completely forgot to blog about this when it went up: I wrote a piece last year for the 5 Viridian Years collection curated by Tim Maly over on Medium. ‘Viridian Design was an avant-garde bright green design movement engineered by Bruce Sterling and intended to address climate change. It ran from 1998-2008. Five years…
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The Coming Asperity
THIS ESSAY WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED NOV 13, 2013 TO MEDIUM.COM AS PART OF THE 5 VIRIDIAN YEARS RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION. AS OF JAN 2020 IT HAD RECEIVED 1.8K VIEWS. JAY SPRINGETT IS A SOLARPUNK, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS. HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING HIS FIRST PUBLIC BOOK: LAND AS PLATFORM.…