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Solarpunk/Sustainable futures/Sci-fi in the real world/Combining science and reading and pretty design!
A long time ago, I made a solarpunk RP (http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/158181). This was one of the first RPs I ever made that succeeded, and later I based my Camp NaNo projects off of the RP. I described solarpunk as:
"It's basically a cross between steampunk and sci-fi. In solarpunk, the world is literary, yet sciencey. People work to solve their problems, instead of being totally reliant on tech. It's a future that happens after an apocalypse of some sort, so there are old buildings, but amazing tech and culture growing out of it.
You can imagine homes with architecture like a library from the 1800s with wrought iron balconies and domes that tower above, but with touch screens and solar panels, but the walls are wood, the solar panels look like stained-glass windows, the light is cozy and bright from multicolored paper lanterns, there are books everywhere, and cozy bean bags and rugs crowd a nook from which you can see a huge tree which creates a stairway that you can climb to visit your friends, who live upstairs."
Solarpunk is still cool in my opinion in that 1. It could actually happen: people are making solar glass that can charge your phone! and 2. It's beautiful and combines reading and writing, since everyone here loves those, and science, which will really make the future... futuristic.
I have wanted to redo the Solarpunk RP for a long time but am pretty busy right now, so this thread is kind of just a discussion: what would you put in the most ideal futuristic (solarpunk) world? Let's build a real-life CB city for the future!
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~Paper lanterns in lots of rainbow colors instead of streetlights. People can decorate the lanterns! Or the lanterns could be sky lanterns with fire in them that fly on a string like a kite! Wouldn't that be cool?
~Libraries that are basically the best and busiest thing in the city. With cozy reading corners and beanbags and floor cushions and library cats who live there (oh my gosh, libraries and animal shelters should be combined! Imagine cute little puppies and kittens and songbirds in a library, with house training, of course.) and hot chocolate and every book imaginable.
~Solarpunk clothing, oh my. Big patchwork skirts that anyone can make on their own, cargo vests or combat boots, wearing flowers or leaves in your hair...
~Gardens. Everywhere. Random cherry blossom trees on rooftops so that you can walk all around with petals raining down. Fruit trees along the sidewalks so you can grab free snack!
submitted by Air
(October 11, 2015 - 4:45 pm)
(October 11, 2015 - 4:45 pm)
Yeess that sounds awwwesome!!
~One thing that is, to some extent, happening, is that nationalities are mixing. National Geographic did an article about it.
I think that in the future the rest of the world will become more like the US in the sort of melting pot ness.
~Oh my that sounds absolutely amazing!! Please build one of those around here!! I would absolutely go to a library like that...
This is off topic for Solarpunk but now I am thinking futuristic...
Did you know that agriculture is worse for the enviorment than cars? It takes lots of land to grow the food for the cow/chicken/ect. So actually being a vegitarian would be a good thing to do not just because of the animals well being but because it would help humans.
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Hey this is our world, you know, and adults and everybody made it kinda trashy, and I sure hope this generation can just be like, "You of the generation before us were idiots, and we of THIS generation were awesome, stopped poverty and starvation, we made world peace happen, stopped global warming, yea ya know we're kinda AWESOME."
Air, I have yet to stop believing you'll go and invent something really awesome, change the world, and then go and win the Nobel Prize for it.
(October 11, 2015 - 5:56 pm)
EXACTLY! Optimism and also actually doing stuff would make our generation awesome!
Did you know that the cat shelter/public place thing is actually a thing? They're called cat cafes and I would LOVE to see one.
Also, have you heard of the Global Goals? They're goals for the next 50 years and super optimistic and hopefully will help the world! There are things like no poverty and no hunger but also sustainable cities and life on land. :-)
I hope to someday do something that will help the world... but Nobel Prize... I'm flattered! :-)
(October 11, 2015 - 11:11 pm)
Yes!!! The Global Goals are awesome. Kudos to the vlogbrothers for introducing me to them. I love how we succeeded at almost everything... and the one we REALLY failed at was reducing glabal warming. We have such a long way to go;)
As for SolarPunk (I like writing it thaat way(its an awesome idea)):
~Cars!!! Vintage electric cars (look 'em up, they're GORGEOUS. I mean, velvet seats???) Add some stained glass sun roofs just because, and all the charging stations are like like old train stations that have been converted and are powered of course by solar.
~Schools are made primarily out of glass and have plenty of outdoor classrooms, an hour everyday for exercise breaks and all the art courses that seem to get dropped.
Cappy says norm. Yes, this is the new norm;)
(October 12, 2015 - 6:57 am)
Oh my gosh! I love the vlogbrothers! DFTBA and nerdfighters forever!
(October 12, 2015 - 8:38 pm)
I looked it up and it seems like cat cafes might spread. I WANT ONE LIKE RIGHT NEXT DOOR I WOULD LIVE IN THERE. I mean, if I can't have a cat, spending time with a cat is the next best thing, right?
(October 13, 2015 - 8:38 am)
Air, as soon as I saw the "combined animal shelters and libraries" idea, I practically choked.
Let's make a ton of ideas and anyone who contributed a great idea can join a rp!
Library finders- Each book has a tracking chip in it that a sliding device with a slit in the middle on the wall can find. Just input the book's name, and the device finds the book, pulls it from the shelf and into a basket on its lower half, and brings it down to you.
Or you can fill out a quick survey on it and it finds a book it thinks you will like!
(October 12, 2015 - 8:19 am)
Ohmygosh YES!! I have SO much trouble finding books I havent read before that are good... and then the library I go to always rearranges the books and then people leave them places... trackers in the book would solve all of that!
(October 13, 2015 - 8:40 am)
~Rooftop gardens, rooftop gardens, rooftop gardens. Imagine going upstairs to be able to see butterflies and wildflowers! (I guess this kind of relates to the gardens I talked about earlier. Ehhh never hurts to talk more about gardens!)
~Embroidery and knitting and sculpture and patchwork and sewing are all super popular, and not just for girls (you know all those cowboys and pirates in history had to do their own mending, otherwise their clothes would be falling apart!). There was this idea I saw on a SolarPunk website where this man owned an old foot-treadle sewing machine and he set it up in this city and every day people would take old clothes to him and he would mend them for free. Wouldn't that be amazing? He must be an awesome person. Also, treadle sweing machines are just cool and vintagey, don't you think?
(October 12, 2015 - 8:45 pm)
Air, you won't believe it but my mom has one of those... for some reason it ends up being used more like a desk than a sewing machine.
(October 13, 2015 - 8:42 am)
Indigo that is so cool!
(October 14, 2015 - 11:26 pm)
-dirigibles
-hot air balloons
-large public spaces where people can just hang out.
-wireless electricity (its possible)
-hovercrafts
-lots of job opportunities
-greenhouses
-students choose what they learn in school, and participate in activities throughout their community from a very early age.
(October 13, 2015 - 5:03 pm)
This is all so amazing! We must live responsibly, and ideas like this reveal a bright future!
(October 13, 2015 - 10:21 pm)
Hey! We have one of those sewing machines, so does my Grandma!
(October 14, 2015 - 1:34 am)
Let's make a RP on this thread!
(October 14, 2015 - 8:11 am)
I'd be up for that.
(October 14, 2015 - 2:42 pm)