Almanac for the Anthropocene
A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
Published on 30. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-1-952271-50-2 (ISBN)
Description
Original 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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Morganstown
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
14 b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-952271-50-2 (9781952271502)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and coeditor of Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. She lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Brontë Christopher Wieland has an MFA in creative writing and environment and is coeditor of Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. He lives in Reno, Nevada.
Content
Introduction: The Situation So Far
Phoebe Wagner and BrontE Christopher Wieland
Part 1: Generativity
Not Just Solar: Creating Our Own Powers, Stories, and Spaces
BrontE 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 Michal 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
BrontE 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 BrontE Christopher Wieland
Contributors
Phoebe Wagner and BrontE Christopher Wieland
Part 1: Generativity
Not Just Solar: Creating Our Own Powers, Stories, and Spaces
BrontE 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 Michal 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
BrontE 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 BrontE Christopher Wieland
Contributors