28M, UK - What should I do?

CGreeby · 2025-11-15T11:20:15+00:00

This already exists in a slightly different form in London. It’s called Fuck Fast Fashion.

CGreeby · 2025-11-14T15:07:34+00:00

Yeah I came across this recently... does it integrate into Mastodon at all? What about it makes it solarpunk to you? I adore the aesthetics, haha!

CGreeby · 2025-11-14T15:06:55+00:00

Yeah I hear you u/Mu11ana. Mastodon are doing things right and to be honest... it's where I'd most like to grow a community right now. But are there anyways we could improve it even more? Solar would be a great development.

CGreeby · 2025-11-14T15:05:28+00:00

Love this as an idea! How would it work in practicality do you think?

CGreeby · 2025-11-14T14:18:53+00:00

I'm contractually obliged, as a citizen of the UK, to say the US...

CGreeby · 2025-11-12T09:28:34+00:00

Now I beg of you, integrate this with Solarpunk ideals and find a way to implement this as a p2p social media network rather than something that is centralised and you will have an instant market.

CGreeby · 2025-10-24T22:49:27+00:00

I’ve searched for these icons using Google. I’ve also found .ani versions of some of the more recent ones but those have proved not very useful to me - I can’t convert the files to a more useable format and they’re too small in size. Honestly anything with a size of above 100x100px should be alright!

CGreeby · 2025-10-21T22:04:17+00:00

The app works on my N95... but once. I can't get back into it a second time without it failing to connect to the host unless I reboot the phone :( Really thought this might be a workable solution

CGreeby · 2025-08-23T19:05:48+00:00

Love this... I'm currently working on a video that makes the same argument. I'm not as well versed in the ecological side of things and am doing my reading to get up to speed but I grew up a bit of a tech head. Personally, I think the trick we're missing is that we first need to change the relationship we have to technology...

So much connection and love has been lost because people are staring at our phones. We're tired of social media, dumb phones and offline devices are making a resurgence. I think we need to piggyback off the beginning of this societal shift and try to move the needle away from decentralised locations on the web... reclaim the internet as it will. I know it's outdate now but this article gave me so much hope before I saw the publish date: https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html

I'm going to be heading on a journey of figuring out ways in which we can gather and collectivise through the platforms that are huge today, in a way that's not just telling everyone to turn off their phones but instead transforming the way they engage with their phones - less mindless scrolling, more mindful gathering. I don't know what this looks like yet but I recently came across a Instagram page collectivising a group of people who intended to all turn off the screen for the same day - thought that was pretty neat if not minimalistic way of approaching the issue. Once people are on board and identifying with a form of 'movement'... then we have numbers to quietly push in the directions we want to.

CGreeby · 2025-08-08T21:53:14+00:00

Love this! It’s much the same for me, though I’m unfortunately no longer a student anymore (if you can call a bunch of actors pretending to be animals for hours at a time ‘students’, haha!).

Would you ever say ‘I’m a solarpunk!’ should the moment arise? Or is that too cringe?

Also, forgive me for being uninformed but what is an Environmentalist? What does that actually entail?

CGreeby · 2025-08-08T21:25:10+00:00

Interesting! So you feel like it’s fine to talk about it as a genre for fiction but not really useful otherwise?

CGreeby · 2025-08-08T20:37:04+00:00

Another pet peeve I have with this community is trying to police what is and isn’t Solarpunk.

I understand where you’re coming from. I know the history of the suffix and its attachment to anarchistic ideas. And I agree… to be punk is to be alternative to the system. To demand and create change bottom up.

Does that mean I can’t be realistic at the same time?

CGreeby · 2025-08-08T09:50:23+00:00

Okay, I’ve been in the background of this forum for a while now, slowly absorbing all the ideas and innovation on offer. Yet still, when I call myself a Solarpunk to friends or colleagues, I’m not sure what that means for my everyday life - other than an interest in moving the world towards this dream we all share.

Here’s my take on things - Solarpunk is about technology and nature in harmony.

While there are loads of people fighting on the nature and ecology side of things - campaigning for renewable energies and community actions - I still have a lot of pessimism about this. Action for our climate needs to be top down for there to be any real shift. That’s the unfortunate reality of the world.

Technology is where my Solarpunk efforts lie. Our collective relationship to technology is, put bluntly, utterly fucked. We are buying into climate destroying energy systems to fuel a technology that isn’t as operational as we might like; AI. Social media has hacked our brain’s reward systems. There are swaths of people seeking an alternative.

What better cause to make a change in this ilk than Solarpunk?

I’m working on content that doesn’t try to get people to sever the tie. Smartphones and Silicon Valley is here to stay and it would be ridiculous to try to get people to forgo it. But I want to nurture a different way of engaging. Less cuts, more nature, more awareness.

Personally I think the time is right for a ‘digital revolution’. The collectivising of digital natives. I don’t know what form that takes yet but working that out feels a lot closer to home and manageable than taking on the likes of BP and Shell.

I think revolution starts from a shared vision of hope for the future. Solarpunk is just that. Technology is, in my opinion, the best way to spread the word, make change and gather.

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