That is worth mentioning in the wiki.

It is both a technological and a political issue. The technology would need to be designed in such a way as to not collect “sensitive” data about anyone and to anonymise whatever data needs to be collected. This would not be simple to implement in a way that would prevent abuse, but the example of a motion sensor rather than a video camera would be the sort of thing that I imagine. To what extent a “smart city” could be developed using only privacy-respecting technology, I don’t know, but at least some options do exist.

This begs the question, would it be possible in a world without politicians? In an anarchist society, for example, where capitalism and the state have been abolished, could there be a technologically-advanced “smart city” that did not violate anyone’s privacy? I think that that is the more interesting question. In the world as it is today, of course this would not work.

That’s what I thought too, but I wasn’t sure enough to say so.

Riding a goose to work is not compatible with the solarpunk values of anti-speciesism and animal liberation.

Meh. I’ve never even seen such a soil, and I can grow food just fine here. Society has overstayed its welcome anyway.

Banana~ 🙃

Gardening is all fine and good, but food forests are the gateway to true ecological sustainability, as they (can) offer the full spectrum of ecosystem services that a forest provides.

I hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code years ago and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won’t start by learning Rust. Baby steps.

Is Rust really so obscure? I’m not a programmer, but I seem to hear about Rust frequently in any remotely halfway-techy space.

There are already posts with that theme in other communities here (and on other instances), but some people might find it useful to have it all in one place. Because it would be redundant to everyone with a broader interest in off-grid living, farming, etc, you would likely be doing all or nearly all of the posting to a small audience for quite some time, as poVoq said. If you’re willing to maintain it single-handedly, go for it.

As interesting as this is, it does not depict vegan anarchy.

Me parece un buen recurso; compartí el enlace con mi amigo.

Thank you for sharing this! Great to see someone present some real numbers and explain how it would work.

Growing food and addressing deforestation and climate change with like-minded neighbours, while consuming as little as possible from the commercial cesspools of the world, is what I consider a realistic approach to solarpunk, at least for me. I’ve not found long-term neighbours who share the same goals, but I’ve met some cool people, and I continue to plant fruit trees and find ways to use natural materials from the forest rather than buying something. I cannot manufacture electronics or forge steel tools, but otherwise, in the long term, I could pretty much live off of the land with the help of the occasional volunteer who has construction experience.

Living vegan (choosing total liberation for all sentient beings) and refusing to accept the cyberpunk dystopian world of non-free software are also major aspects for me; solarpunk is anti-oppression. Many people seem to miss that part, but to me it is crucial, and it is what makes solarpunk appealing and sets it apart.

I’m not so optimistic about new energy technologies, but old-fashioned water-wheels and such are still just as viable as ever, and in the long term, I foresee a return to (modernised/improved versions of) such technologies being useful.

As other commenters have pointed out, community is an important aspect of solarpunk, and it seems like it needs to be a major aspect of any anarchist movement, as “we” are greatly outnumbered by those who support the status quo, and we will need to support each other in order to achieve a lasting cultural shift on even the local level. There are already some vegan intentional communities and regenerative neighbourhood projects and food forest projects and even explicitly solarpunk communities making an effort to bring about a more ethical and sustainable world, and anyone looking into aligning their lifestyle with solarpunk values might consider joining one or starting their own when life in the city reveals itself to be untenable.

Let’s get out there and take action! People need to get out of their comfort zones and protect what’s left of the natural world before it’s too late. Anarchist projects saving the forest, supporting each other voluntarily… that would be nice.

I will pass along that link!

Does anyone here know of any (other) excellent vegan anarchy books, short videos, documentaries, articles, websites, etc? I know someone who is compiling a list of resources in english and spanish. Preferably the spanish videos/docs are originally in spanish, but english with spanish dub or subtitles can also work.

In theory, I agree with you. Just cross-posting this so that people see this perspective and how much the infrastructure needs to change. Whether those changes will happen is the real question.

EDIT: To clarify a bit more, I rarely observe people talking about the back-end infrastructural changes, the production-side changes, that would need to happen in order to phase out fossil fuels. It’s appealing to think that buying solar panels and an electric car and other shiny new consumer products can solve major environmental problems, and of course there are big business interests that would benefit greatly from people believing that to be the case, but that is not the reality. The consumer end, what we might call “domestic use” of fossil fuels, is only a small fraction of the total, and I share articles like this in order to remind people of the bigger picture and the changes that must happen in addition to any individual consumer choices if humans collectively are to phase out the use of fossil fuels. I don’t mean to discourage people from making those individual changes, and I don’t share all of the author’s pessimism about whether the back-end infrastructural changes are possible, but I think that more people need to be taking this issue very seriously rather than simply promoting electrification or more efficient machines.

Always check terms and privacy policy before signing up, but these seem like they will be here to stay:

• lemmy.cafe
• sopuli.xyz
• slrpnk.net
• lemmy.dbzer0.com
• anarchist.nexus
• scribe.disroot.org

Those are all Lemmy and PieFed, and I’m not so familiar with Mastodon and others. Maybe look at mas.to ?