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  "content": "<figure>\n  <img src=\"/solarpunk-mood.png\" />\n  <figcaption>\n    Images from\n    <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/solarpunkart/\">\n      @solarpunkart\n    </a>,\n    <a\n      href=\"https://www.thelineanimation.com/work/chobani\"\n    >\n      Chobani/The LINE\n    </a>,\n    <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia\">\n      Dinotopia\n    </a>,\n    <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/\">\n      Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind\n    </a>,\n    <a\n      href=\"https://twitter.com/BloombergQuint/status/1413943607824945154\"\n    >\n      Bloomberg\n    </a>,\n    <a\n      href=\"https://www.casagrandelaboratory.com/\"\n    >\n      Marco Casagrande\n    </a>, and \n    <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1955162/\">\n      All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace\n    </a>\n  </figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n# Solarpunk Canon\n\nBack in 2018, I remember the [a16z Crypto Canon](https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/) was a helpful and inspiring resource for anyone curious about crypto. I'd like to gather a similar collection of books, essays, and films for people exploring Solarpunk today.\n\nMany of these I've already shared or written about on the [Solarpunk Substack newsletter](https://onsolarpunk.substack.com/), but I thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place for easy sharing.\n\n## Books\n\n- The Earthseed series ([Parable of the Sower](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower) and [Parable of the Talents](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents)) by Octavia Butler\n- The Mars trilogy (especially [Green Mars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77505.Green_Mars)) by Kim Stanley Robinson\n- [The Ministry for the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future) by Kim Stanley Robinson\n- [New York 2140](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140) by Kim Stanley Robinson\n- [Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50403472) by Xiaowei Wang\n- [Ecotopia](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550165.Ecotopia) by Ernest Callenbach\n- [The Dispossessed](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed) by Ursula K Le Guin\n- [Always Coming Home](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201901.Always_Coming_Home) by Ursula K Le Guin\n- [Walkaway](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604388-walkaway) by Cory Doctorow\n- [How to Blow Up a Pipeline](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51686708-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline) by Andreas Malm\n- [Small is Beautiful](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117634.Small_Is_Beautiful) by Ernst F. Schumacher\n- [Industries for Small Communities](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30282887-industries-for-small-communities) by Arthur Morgan\n- [The Community of the Future and the Future of Community](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4143001-the-community-of-the-future-and-the-future-of-community) by Arthur Morgan\n- [After Geoengineering](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50835770) by Holly Jean Buck\n\n## Films\n\n- [Black Panther](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/) (specifically the city of Wakanda)\n- [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/) (also read the [Nausicaä anime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15800525-nausica-of-the-valley-of-the-wind) that was the precursor to the film)\n- [Eat today, feed tomorrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS-sJQkr0H4) (ad for Chobani, made by [The LINE studio](https://www.thelineanimation.com/work/chobani))\n- [Backyard Aquaponics Farming Fresh Fish and Vegetables with Charles Collins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T15gXm6ha_I) by PARAGRAPHIC\n- [Play New: Tomorrow](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Omrh/nike-play-new-tomorrow) (ad for Nike from Tokyo Olympics 2020)\n- [The Mondragon Experiment](https://vimeo.com/161252994) by BBC\n\n## Essays\n\n- [Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics](https://medium.com/@erichunting/solarpunk-post-industrial-design-and-aesthetics-1ecb350c28b6) by Eric Hunting and illustrated by [Dustin Jacobus](https://www.instagram.com/solarpunkart/)\n- [The Turnaround](https://www.altaonline.com/culture/fiction-and-poetry/a7839/charlie-jane-anders-short-story/) by Charlie Jane Anders\n- [Shop Class as Soulcraft](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft) by Matthew Crawford\n- [Solarpunk: Notes towards a manifesto](https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/) by Adam Flynn\n- [Off The Grid Guide](https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html) by Hundred Rabbits\n- [Low-tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) (especially [How to Build a Low-tech Internet](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html) and [Reinventing the Greenhouse](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-greenhouse.html))\n- [New Alchemy Journals](https://newalchemists.net/publications/new-alchemy-1971-1991/) by the New Alchemy Institute\n\n## Other\n\n- [Countryside, The Future](https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/countryside) by Rem Koolhaas and AMO (you can also read the [catalog from the exhibit](https://www.amazon.com/Koolhaas-Countryside-Report-US-AMO/dp/3836583313))\n- [Dustin Jacobus (@solarpunkart)](https://www.instagram.com/solarpunkart/)\n",
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  "date": "2024-02-28T04:34:31.866Z"
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