Description
Book SynopsisOriginal voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.
Almanac for the Anthropocene collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more—all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action.
Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice, Almanac for the Anthropocene unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Situation So Far
- Phoebe Wagner and BrontË Christopher Wieland
- Part 1: Generativity
- Not Just Solar: Creating Our Own Powers, Stories, and Spaces
- BrontË Christopher Wieland
- 1.Solarpunk Is a Verb for Rising
- The Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio
- 2.In Defense of Hope
- Margaret Killjoy
- 3. Feeding Imagination
- Giulia Lepori and Michał Krawczyk
- 4. A Collective Gardening Shed of Concepts for Planting Solarpunk Futures
- Christoph D. D. Rupprecht
- Part 2: Independence
- Building toward Autonomy: Ways of Reclaiming the Present and the Future
- BrontË Christopher Wieland
- 5. Your Mineral Footprint
- Gabriel Aliaga
- 6. Solarpunk Design Guidelines
- Navarre Bartz
- 7. How to Build a Solar-Powered Website
- Kris De Decker
- 8. Solarpunks See the World: Traversing the World without Destroying It
- Craig Stevenson
- Part 3: Community
- “All Organizing Is Science Fiction”: On Dreaming a Solarpunk Community
- Phoebe Wagner
- 9. Science Fiction and Disability: Engage!
- Petra Kuppers
- 10. The Urban Reef: Breaking Down Barriers between Green Spaces in Urban Environments
- Octavia Cade
- 11. The Commensal Canine
- Susan Haris
- 12. Solarpunk: The Fruitful Revolution
- Connor D. Louiselle
- Part 4: Ingenuity
- Solarpunk Ingenuity and DIY Projects
- Phoebe Wagner
- 13. Visible Mending: A Recipe for Beautiful and Sustainable Clothing
- Sari Fordham
- 14. Appalachian Solarpunk: Growing Trees from Seed for the Plant Revolution
- Vance Mullis and Joy Lew
- 15. Anthrocene Strategy: Foraging
- Michael J. DeLuca
- 16. Multispecies Community Garden: A More-Than-Human Design Concept Proposal 00
- for Well-Being in Shrinking Cities
- Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Aoi Yoshida, and Lihua Cui
- Conclusion: Looking Forward
- Phoebe Wagner and BrontË Christopher Wieland
- Contributors
