{"id":608,"date":"2025-11-08T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:45:38","slug":"thoughts-for-myself-solar-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for myself: Solar Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Solar punk is a literary and art movement that envision and work towards actualising a sustainable future connected with nature and <strong>community<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The maker is the hero<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Solar&#8221; for the clean energy and the optimism, opposed to the climate doomerism <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Punk&#8221; for counter cultural, post capitalism and decolonial <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pessimism is a mood, optimism is a will.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same family than Green Punk and Hope Punk, it proposes radical hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the the opposite of Steam Punk, Grimdark and Cyberpunk, but like them talks about art and environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a rebellion against a rebellion. A dystopia fatigue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar Pink sees individuality as progressivism, but with a strong scaffolding of community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word was first mentioned in a 2008 article about wind-powered cargo ship. To this day we are not sure who invented the word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things to look up: Olivia Louise, Adam Flynn, Afrofuturism, Bright green environmentalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Themes of solar punk: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Renewable energy <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refusing pessimism <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainable technology <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Racial and gender equality <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of solar punk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bosco verticale in Milan <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wakanda <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ghibli&#8217;s castle in the sky, Nausicaa <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Games: numeaera, solar punk 2050, fully automated <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar punk is a literary and art movement that envision and work towards actualising a sustainable future connected with nature and community. The maker is the hero &#8220;Solar&#8221; for the clean energy and the optimism, opposed to the climate doomerism &#8220;Punk&#8221; for counter cultural, post capitalism and decolonial &#8220;Pessimism is a mood, optimism is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen-kelp","tag-solar-punk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}