Solarpunk
Imagining and building sustainable futures.
Solarpunk is both an idea and a practice: a movement that imagines futures where technology and nature coexist and collaborate, instead of standing in opposition.
We started with a panel at Fértil Fest on what solarpunk really means, why it matters now, and the concrete shapes it already takes, from projects and tools to communities turning these principles into action. This list is where we keep what we find.
How you can help
- Share a book, tool or project we should add to the list
- Bring a solarpunk idea you want to prototype in the Algarve
Resource list
Read
Solarpunk — an overview
Where the movement comes from and what it stands for
Read
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland (eds.), 2017
Read
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers, 2021 — a gentle place to start
Read
Solarpunk Magazine
Fiction, essays and art, published bimonthly
Watch
What is Solarpunk?
Andrewism — the genre, the praxis and the art movement in one video essay
Grow
Biggest Mini Forest
Portuguese project making food forests simple: agroforestry, syntropic farming and the Miyawaki method
Build
H2tALENT
Portuguese project building the country's first green hydrogen valley, in the Alentejo — with the University of Algarve among its partners
Grow
Hagra — Hydroponics
Portuguese agro experts designing sustainable hydroponic systems
Grow
Plantalgarve
Vegetable, herb and ornamental plant nursery in Faro since 1985
Grow
Crop-net colour and pesticide use
University of Tokyo finding that the colour of a crop net can cut pesticide use
Build
Low-tech Magazine
Forgotten and low-energy technologies, served from a solar-powered site
Build
Open Source Ecology
Open blueprints for the machines a small community needs
Build
Precious Plastic
Open-source machines and know-how for recycling plastic locally
Join
r/solarpunk
The largest solarpunk community online
