Is there currently a Solarpunk community for booklovers/Solarpunk reading recommendations, etc? I came to think of it when I was going to ask around if anyone was still using book swapping sites like BookMooch and Paperback Swap, but it would be a nice place for other book discussions, too. I did use search on the communities page, and it didn’t turn up exactly what I was looking for, but there’s always the possibility that I was using the wrong search terms.
Had to look that up… So, it seems to be protopian fiction, typically sci-fi or sci-fantasy, with a cyberpunk type feel?
We need more protopian literature.
Dystopian media tell us what the problems are and shows us why, what their outcomes look like, but there is far less protopian media to tell us what the solutions are or show us how or why they work.
Anyway, good luck on you hunt for a solarpunk community.
Yeah, that’s basically it. It’s fiction that features a future in which people are adapting to climate change and focuses on sustainable living and technologies. A few years back you wouldn’t have found anything searching for solarpunk fiction, but it seems to have been gaining popularity lately. I’ve always enjoyed speculative fiction, and I agree with you that we need more protopians in our collective imagination.