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So, leaving you all with this gem for #SolarPunkSunday . I'll be boosted quoted posts and posts from earlier this week, and whatever SolarPunkSunday posts folks post the rest of the day. Thanks to everyone who participated (especially @MaQuest@mastodon.green who posted some great stuff) ! Lots of events to post next week, and I'll also be focusing on #ToyLibraries and other resources folks can use when money is tight, and also #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge ! Remember... #ABetterWorld is possible!!! What Is Solarpunk? The Design Movement That’s Building a Utopian Future By Emma Taggart on September 18, 2026 Excerpt: "With news of wildfires, food shortages, and natural disasters around the world, it’s fair to assume the worst for our future. But, there’s a growing number of artists, designers, architects, and communities that are choosing to redirect their climate anxiety towards radical optimism. Solarpunk is a growing design and social movement that boldly envisions what our future could look like if we live in harmony with nature and use technology for the greater good." Read more: https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-solarpunk/ #WhatIsSolarPunk #ClimateResiliency #LivingInHarmonyWithNature #TechnologyForGood #GiantLeapScenario

Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity. So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine." Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth). Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet. Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future. #Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap