Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics.
Solarpunk is a literary genre and art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment, climate change, and pollution. It is a subgenre within science fiction, aligned with cyberpunk derivatives, and may borrow elements from utopian and fantasy genres.
Although solarpunk is concerned with technology, it also embraces low-tech ways of living sustainably such as gardening, permaculture, positive psychology, and do-it-yourself ethics. Its themes may reflect on environmental philosophy such as bright green environmentalism, deep ecology, and ecomodernism, as well as punk ideologies such as anarchism, anti-consumerism, anti-authoritarianism, and civil rights.
Related per Wikipedia: Bright green environmentalism, Climate fiction, Deep ecology, Ecocriticism, Ecofiction, Environmental art, Green anarchism, Social ecology, Technogaianism
Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto
Solarpunk" & the Pedagogical Value of Utopia
Solarpunk Is a Tumblr Vibe. It’s Also a Practical Movement.
retro gaming against jevons' paradox by lykso
A personal blog post about retro gaming and lower energy consumption. Hits me hard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/
I make Solarpunk Posts on Dreamwidth every so often, with links, opportunities, podcasts, news, videos, etc.