Present: During the City Beautiful Movement at the turn of the 20th century, city planners used classical architecture to romanticize the imperialistic military ambitions of San Francisco’s wealthiest 1%, all of whom were heavily invested in the arms industry. San Francisco's City Hall and Civic Center were focal points for this architectural movement.
Today, the suffering caused by wealth disparity is evident everywhere in San Francisco, and not least in Civic Center, where many people make their lives on the streets. This painting highlights elements of hostile architecture and policy observed in the area: surveillance cameras (foreground), speakers that play Disney music at all hours (mounted on the light post on the right), the lack of benches, and security guards tasked with preventing people from lying down.
Observed and painted en plein air. Inspired by Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin.
Future: City Hall has been repurposed as a co-created community space. Its formerly bare walls and columns are decorated by artists who tell a people’s history of the city and extol the sacred values that inform the city’s future. During the Uprising, activists removed and repurposed the dome, viewing it as symbolic of hierarchy. Miraculously, a madrone took root at the base of the stairs in the central hall and grew up to burst out of the space of the former dome. The roof now serves as a transfer station for the gondola lines that criss-cross the city. The building is still a beloved space for weddings and rites of passage.
Open and welcoming public spaces have returned to the city. In the foreground is a public hammock space, alebrije statues, a native plant garden, an adventure playground centered around a live oak tree, and a preserved piece of the City Hall’s facade, which kids have painted on.
This vision is inspired by The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk and dreamed in collaboration with local resident, writer, and activist Beverly Litkin. #solarpunk
@joan_de_art makes great solarpunk art. You've likely seen one of these floating around, but I found the source if one wanted to know. Anyways, these do a good job of introducing solarpunk ideals and capturing the spirit of solarpunk design.
A detailed artwork of a solarpunk city recreational/third space. There's a skatepark, sensory garden, LARPing arena with tree houses, wheelchair inclusive playground with aquatic aspects, community food pantry, a daycare, a soccer/multi use field, a bonfire area, public restrooms with changing stations, a teen cafe, a public pool. above/around the open area are related businesses: youth art center, library, snack stand, vegan food cart, health clinic, showers, toy and clothing swap, lactation support, children's museum, and many bike/walking friendly paths. In the far background, the apartments are sound proof. Renewable energy such as wind turbines and shading nets are emphasized for ethical energy/saving energy.
Politically Reactive is a #ttrpg political thriller set in a post-capitalist future! Investigate a conspiracy amidst a turf war between #demsoc and #ancap leaders in the SF Bay! And as a post-capitalist product, it's free and open-license! Check it out now!
Aliens in transit ( Iloo & Yoyo ) here. We live on a retired #IOR racer turned #solarpunk 'ish cruiser named Oiysh.
We are scavengers and makers by nature so if #upcycling broken jerrycans into electric motor covers, hacking electric outboards and all kinds of weird #diy sprinkled with a dash of #slow#boatlife is your thing you're welcomed to waste some of your time with us.
We sometimes document our alienness in video format [email protected]
The picture shows where our diesel engine used to be, Now the space is proudly occupied by an electric motor with cover made out of a broken jerrycan. On top of it there is a shelf with aloe and spinach plants. Behind a kitchen island .
Welp, submitted my claims to the class action lawsuit against a single AI company (even though they all stole the books) for 40 books stolen (even though 97 were actually stolen but many got excluded for reasons that still make me 😡).
So many authors had books stolen and yet can't file claims. So many companies are profiting from the theft and stealing more every day. Even this settlement is just a slap on the wrist.
Fuck AI corps forever.
AI must be destroyed. 🔨
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The stories themselves fight the exploitation and extraction by continuing to show that human art matters, that they can't stop me, and especially my #solarpunk storytelling says FUCK AI.
Passing this link on from the fractal anarchism community on slrpnk.net. It's probably just a reminder or reinforcement for a lot of folks on here but it makes a good case for building community wherever possible, as a foundation for other action:
This one shows more of the game’s main story, with dust storms on the surface of the moon threatening to block the town’s precious sunlight.
That means we need to diversify the town's energy tech (solar field and geothermal battery), adding wind turbines, biodigesters, compressed air and buoyancy storage, etc.
🍾 Franziska Trautmann started a recycling facility in a backyard 5 years ago. Now she's Louisiana's biggest glass recycler.
✋ She has fought against the many obstacles that keep glass recycling in the U.S. to only around 30%.
🦉 The facility operates 3 days a week. Her team uses the other days, with some of their glass, to build coastal wetland islands. And wildlife is returning: Birds, gators, crabs, otters.
✨ Need some positive environmental news? Watch this 13-minute video.
Geothermal heat pumps are feasible for residential heating and cooling - it will make a difference as long as we organize and make it happen. If we leave it up to the people "in charge" we'll never see it, because it's not profitable to them.
Building the technology is hard. Scaling the technology is a LOT harder.
Windows fitted on three sides of a shed. One window has a white frame with no glass. The end window is a recycled shower screen and the third window has a green painted frame with white window panels. The windows will be painted when the weather has warmed up enough. Inside the shed are five wooden core sample boxes stacked on a table and a bench respectively. Some bottles of various home made amendments for the garden are stacked inside two blue wooden crates. Some reclaimed blue chipboard is fixed underneath the windows.
Mwamba nie wynalazł tarcz z myślą o ludziach. Stworzył je by ocalić drzewa z Zielonego Muru. Kiedy po nalocie bombowców wyszedł cało ze zgliszczy i podarował światu tę technikę, został okrzyknięty bohaterem, choć on sam wstydził się swojej decyzji. Kiedy dostrzegł samoloty było już zbyt późno by dobiec do choćby jednego z drzew. Nie zdążył. "W przypływie tchórzostwa sam założyłem pas tarczy" pisał potem we wspomnieniach.
Winter veg in the raised bed. I’m grateful for our temperate climate here and the variety of veg we can grow, however slowly.
The bed gets residual heat from the house wall which helps but we’ve only had one week of frosts and a couple of days of snow so far this winter. No nights colder than -5°C. #GrowYourOwn#HomeGrown#NoDig#Solarpunk
A raised bed along the side of a house. It’s a rectangular box that’s netted with three doorways at regular intervals down the side. The door panels are also all netted. The net keeps out the pigeons and butterflies.
Each doorway opens onto a kneeling space where the entire bed in front and to the sides can be reached and worked without compacting the soil. The design is influenced by keyhole beds in permaculture.
It also means the beds can be worked without ever blocking the access pathway alongside the bed.
There are a lot of veg plants growing in the beds: kale, cabbage, bulls blood beetroot leaves, mooli, komatsuna, garlic chives, spring onions, pak choi, winter spinach, green wave mustard, land cress, Chinese cabbage, ischikrona bunching onions, golden frills mustard, cavolo nero kale, root parsley, Sicilian giant radish, green in snow mustard, Osaka purple mustard, mizuna, mibuna, purslane, winter radish, Japanese wintering onions and chicory. A brindle boxer dog is walking on the path alongside the raised bed with his head down.
The same slipper now has a sweet little woven pink heart outlined in purple chai stitch covering the tear. There’s also a wad of felt inside the shoe but I’m not gonna show you that because it looks messy af.
Here's another desperate request. A 20 year old here alone and living with his dad who is being deported to Honduras.
Please help. Boost and donate if you can. This is what we have, what they are furious we are doing. Yes, the brutality in Minnesota is terrifying. But this is the first time that the US government has deported people based on skin color where white people have said fuck you.
Shit is changing. We are going to have to take this standing together, this solidarity, this love, and abolish ICE with it. 💜