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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Reformism, Revolutionary anarchism, and socialism: May Podcast Club
·OnlineOnlineCome to an online discussion comparing the political beliefs and historical examples of reformism, revolutionary anarchism, and revolutionary socialism. Solarpunk is for a future civilization in harmony with nature, organized as democratically run communities. It is anti-capitalist and rebellious. Solarpunk is visionary, without a strategy for social change, so we will discuss three possibilities. As anarchism, Marxist socialism, and even reforms of capitalism are distorted by the media, we will analyze historical examples.
May 24, 2026, 19:30 Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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While all are welcome to attend as observers, to participate, viewing the podcasts below is required.The first workers revolution, when anarchists and socialists were united. A Marxist analysis. The Paris Commune | Lessons from the First Dictatorship of the Proletariat 16 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noRhBP0x3uY
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, workers ran Barcelona as an anarchist society, allied with a communist led central government. Anarchist Catalonia: Creating a new society 21 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wndc9z2AFzc
Rojava, a territory in Kurdish Syria, is run democratically, defended by a people’s militia, including a women’s brigade. Accidental Anarchist - What is the Rojava Revolution? 20 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0
The British Green Party is rising to become the leading economic and social reform party of the Western capitalist world. The Green Party Manifesto Explained 8 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhFv-UrKy013 attendees
Resistance: Non-violence or revolutionary war
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for an online open discussion on how we can best resist capitalist exploitation of man and nature, through nonviolence or revolutionary war. Solarpunk, as a visionary movement to establish democratic, autonomous communities in harmony with nature, does not include a theory of social change or position on violence or nonviolence. All opinions welcome.
May 19, 2026 at 19:30 Pacific Time (US and Canada)Recommended articles and videos:
US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker
Nonviolence and Peace movements: Crash Course World History 228 13 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-mv5IjFzY
Fighting with non-violence by Scilla Elworthy 16 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3K_Vrve-E
The Algerian War of Independence: A Fight for Freedom 4 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glSkiP-6heU
The Russian Revolution: All Power to the Soviets! 34 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0TBJ381gSo3 attendees
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