About us
Bay Area Solarpunks is eco-futurist, optimistic, and rebellious.
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We envision a future where people live in harmony with nature in autonomous communities organized as participatory democracies.
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We oppose all forms of exploitation of nature and people.
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We are part of the global Solarpunk Movement.
Our immediate goal is to build a Solarpunk community in the Bay Area, discussing, researching, and critiquing environmental, social, political, and cultural issues. We have monthly discussions, a blog with essays, fiction, and art, a book club, and movie nights.
Our midrange goal is to create an alternative community with our own beliefs, culture, permaculture gardens, third spaces, and governance.
The global Solarpunk Movement’s long term goal is to save civilization from itself by replacing capitalism and colonialism with a new world of democratically run communities living symbiotically with the natural world.
Upcoming events
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Community based economic democracy or capitalism
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for an open discussion on a future world based on economically autonomous communities run as participatory democracies, in contrast to our current capitalist and colonialist system.
Questions. In a solarpunk community democracy in harmony with nature:
What is the purpose of production of goods, services, and culture? Of economic growth? Of technology?
Why do we work?
Who makes decisions and organizes workplaces and society?
What unites each community?
How do people across the globe relate?
Suggested videos:
What Does It Mean To Live A Good Life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIvuwetnSZk
What the Economy of the Future Looks Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y5OHasFwAQ
A Democratic Society Should Have Democratic Workplaces - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUr1sSh-ED4
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! (Graeber, 2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2dqwXrtAFE
What Anarchy Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkN_nQPpeSU18 attendees
Past events
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