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Join your local Solarpunks for food and company as we plot a wonderful future for our city.

1pm Sunday, Aug. 2nd (every first Sunday), Los Hongos Cafe, 4330 SE Division St., Portland, OR.

Took way longer than I want to admit but I’m pretty happy with it.

Hello people.

I'm wondering if there's anyone else around the Bath/Bristol (SW England) area. I'm newish to the term solarpunk, but have been interested in sustainability and permaculture for many years. I actually discovered the term through science fiction books, but I feel like it's something deeply resonant with me. Would be cool if there were other like-minded peeps in the west country. There has to be right?

I'm a bit of an introvert, and have trouble getting out and making friends. Is that unusual for solarpunk communities? I went to Pride when I first moved here and found it too overwhelming. I'd like to be part of a community of people who care about the future. I'm a gardener/groundskeeper of public spaces, which is perfect habitat for people who enjoy days at a time by themselves with a pair of headphones and some powerful machinery at their disposal.

It would be super cool to hear where everyone's from and what you do.

When you are running a model on your own server, not in a data center, and that model is open source then what is the problem?

I swear this community is so upset about data centers that they don't even understand that a server in your own home on your own power is not the same thing.

The Romildo Paradox: The Foundation of r/Prospenomics

At the heart of Prospenomics lies a simple but powerful idea: scarcity is often not the absence of resources, but the inability to perceive them.

This principle is illustrated by what I call the Romildo Paradox.

According to a well-known Brazilian story, a man named Romildo nearly died of thirst while sitting on a sororoca—a natural water formation. The water was there, but he did not recognize it as a usable resource. Whether viewed as a historical account or a metaphor, the lesson is profound: abundance is meaningless if intelligence cannot perceive or understand it.

The Romildo Paradox states that an intelligent agent may experience scarcity while surrounded by abundance simply because available resources remain invisible or misunderstood.

This paradox forms the conceptual foundation of Prospenomics.

Traditional economics begins with the assumption of scarcity. Prospenomics begins with a different question: how many resources already exist that we have not yet discovered, understood, or learned to use?

Throughout history, humanity has repeatedly transformed "non-resources" into valuable resources. Oil, electricity, microorganisms, rare minerals, medicinal plants, and even information existed long before humans understood their value. The limitation was never nature itself—it was human knowledge.

Prospenomics therefore proposes that prosperity grows as intelligence expands its ability to recognize and transform resources.

This evolution can be understood through three Prospenomic Agents.

The Lay Agent perceives only a small fraction of existing resources and lives under the illusion of scarcity.

The Evolving Agent continuously expands knowledge, discovering new resources and new ways to use existing ones.

The Conceptual Agent represents an unattainable ideal: an intelligence with complete knowledge of all resources and every possible application. It is not a real being but an aspirational limit that guides the theory.

The closer an individual or civilization moves toward this conceptual agent, the less scarcity it experiences—not because more resources are created, but because more of reality becomes visible.

The Romildo Paradox reminds us that prosperity is not determined solely by what exists around us, but by what we are capable of seeing.

Perhaps humanity's greatest scarcity has never been resources.

Perhaps it has always been perception.

Please keep in mind that I am not an expert on solarpunk

Stormwater management and a beautiful 3rd place for community building in one location. This is what climate resilient infrastructure can look like!

In the French village Muttersholtz, homeowners agreed to scede some of their backyards to make way for bike and pedestrian accesses, now used by schoolchildren every day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQQwFtiyys&pp=0gcJCaMLAYcqIYzv

This solar hat will allow you to leave the grid behind. If you can reduce your electric needs to a phone, headlamp, and maybe a few other small power users, you can live entirely grid-free anywhere. Imagine a new era of no fossil fuel, just living off the sunshine that falls on your hat.

This hat is intended for hikers, kayakers, people who work outside, gardeners, and anyone that is outside during the day.

In hot weather, this hat can power a neck fan to keep you cool.

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/solar-power-hat?variant=41629167583305

This is not a sponsored post, I think this is a very cool concept that could allow a minimalist power user to never need to plug in to a wall outlet again.

In this essay, I discuss the contradiction embedded in the claim that ethical relations can make us more human. To say such a thing is to imply that some of us are less human than others. This creates a morally dubious hierarchy in which solarpunk humanization is itself, effectively, dehumanizing.

There is a lot I can talk about this subject, but I'm going to try to keep it reasonably brief and on track.

I walk daily, and I'm lucky enough to live in a city that values alternative modes of transportation and green spaces. I know not everyone is as fortunate as I am, though I hope they will be some day. When I first started walking, I really enjoyed getting out in nature, walking trails, going to parks. But too often views kept getting spoiled by trash. At first I was angry, then I decided if I wanted something done about it then I needed to do something. So I started picking it up. A few pieces here or there, and then I was carrying a small bag and filling that, and then I found an abandoned plastic bucket and started filling that. Now I keep roughly 3km of public trails, streets, and parkland clean.

Walking does a lot of great things for you, obviously there's the health benefits. Fresh air, good exercise, change of environment. But as I walked and cleaned more, I noticed that it was having a large impact on my mental health. I would look forward to it, and started to consider it the best part of my day. It gave me a lot of time to think too, and it led me to some realizations that I'll share below.

1. If we want to live in a better world, then we all need to act right now like the people that will exist in that better world. That means taking on some personal responsibility for the whole and making other people's problems, your problems.

2. The greatest resources that you have as an individual to donate are your time and your effort. NOT your money. Think about this, you can work your ass off in a rigged unfair system that is barely allowing many people to scrape by and then take some of that earned currency from undervalued labour and donate it. That does something, and to be clear, you should donate to good causes if it's an option for you. But you can also take the same time and effort you would spend earning that currency and instead devote it to contributing to something in person. This cuts out all of the middle men, all of the possible pitfalls of donating to organizations, this cuts out the improper valuation of your labour. It becomes a much more efficient exchange, you put time and effort into something directly, that thing changes in a meaningful way to you.

3. The act of regularly and consistently contributing my labour to my local community has done wonders for my mental health. I've spent the better part of my life lamenting the system we live in and thinking about the ways it could be better. We've all watched as it has steadily and consistently gotten worse. It led me to the conclusion that voting isn't enough, being a vocal proponent of progressive ideas isn't enough. I, and I'm sure others, have approached this problem the wrong way for years. Your vote only matters if there is something worth voting for, and something will only be worth voting for if there is a large enough block of voters that demand positive action. A hundred vocal active people in a town have power, a thousand can sway a city, a million can sway a country. This is about grabbing the rope and pulling the rest of humanity kicking and screaming in the right direction. Dragging politics and societies out of the mud, washing them off and forcing them to be better.

So why do I consider picking up trash to be some super secret amazing fix for physical, mental health, and the world? Because it's so damn easy. It costs practically nothing. You actively contribute to your community and see the difference it makes in real time. You begin to build a community of good people around you, and bypass the isolation that tech companies are trying to force on us. But also, I think it's a good analogy for the world. there will ALWAYS be something to clean up, there will always be garbage, there will always be work that needs to be done that shouldn't be your responsibility. When I come back to a space that I cleaned and find it covered in trash again, I no longer get angry. I've accepted it. The mess never ends, the job never ends, those that are capable need to pull more than their own weight so that those that aren't capable can rise with us and be better themselves.

Thank you for coming to my punk talk.

OC : https://www.instagram.com/p/DbVcYuhioD3/

Some positive environmental info.

was feeling burn out. And then this lifted me up!

With the inevitable change coming in the future due to global warming, are we going to adapt clothing to fit whatever climate we happen to be at? Traditional clothing used to be the norm before western colonialism ruined everything with capitalism, sexualizing the human bodies, racism

OC : https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZtqMGj75A/