solarpunk

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Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

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Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism,  impact DAO's, public goods and crypto's relationship to the state .  

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On this Episode of Rehash: a web3 podcast, we sat down with Gary Sheng, Co-Founder of Civics Unplugged & Dream DAO. Gary was nominated by Louis, and voted onto the podcast by Julia, triumph, Andrew, tylerinternet, and elliedots. Some of the questions asked in this episode were submitted by Carsten, Zayi, and Louis.

We kickoff the episode by getting to know Gary, his background, and how he fell into web3. He tells us the story of how Civics Unplugged and DreamDAO came to be and lays out for us what the term “regen” means. We get to know more about Gary, his philosophy, and his niche: the intersection of regen and web3. 

Next, we dive into the issue of inclusivity in web3, and processes for onboarding new people into web3 being as inclusive as possible. We break down what the ideas behind solarpunk, and we talk about Gen Z and the future of regen web3.

Gary explains the reasoning behind the choice to make DreamDAO a DAO and tells us the benefits to learning by doing in a DAO setting for Gen Z. We discuss community building and Gary gives his advice for growing a healthy community.

We close out with Gary explaining what he meant by saying “optimism is self-fulfilling if tied to collective action,” and then a game of this or that!

To continue this conversation and stay up to date on all things Rehash, you can follow Diana on Twitter @ddwchen and Rehash @rehashweb3. You can follow our guest, Gary, @garysheng.

⌛ TIMESTAMPS: 

0:00 Intro 

0:51 Gary’s background

7:40 What is the regen concept all about?

9:07 The intersection of regen and web3

13:27 Inclusivity and onboarding into web3

15:41 What is a solarpunk future?

18:37 The future of regen web3

22:17 What makes Gen Z unique?

27:10 Why make DreamDAO a DAO?

30:05 What to look for in leaders and mentors

33:02 Effective community building

37:42 Explaining “optimism is self-fulfilling if tied to collective action”

40:54 This or that

42:20 Follow Gary!

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What are the most effective tools we can engage to create new, different, better futures?  How do we translate our visions of a generative future into action now? What are our bridging tools, that exist now and take us forward to a world that would work for everyone? 

Phoebe Tickell is an imagination activist, renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur.  Originally trained as a biologist (she has a first class degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University), she now works across multiple societal contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and has worked in organisational design, advised government, the education sector and the food and farming sector. Until 2021 she was working in philanthropy at The National Lottery Community Fund to implement systems-thinking approaches to funding and and leading insight and learning in the £12.5 million Digital Fund.

On the way through, she has co-founded a series of organisations dedicated to systems change via innovative approaches, including 225 Academy, which delivered 5-day transformative experiences for young people aged 11-18 globally; Future Farm Lab, which created systemic interventions to the food system and the Our Field Project — an experiment in a group of citizens co-owning and co-governing a field of grain in Hertfordshire.

More recently, she is founder of Moral Imaginations and RenaissanceU, a member of Enspiral, part of the Don't Go Back to Normal Project, on the board of Renaissance U, and an advisor to the Consilience Project.  She's a certified Warm Data Lab host and an advisor to the International Bateson Institute.  She recently led 1,000 people in a Collective Imagination journey in Berlin and then 4,000 in Sweden.

In all of this, she took time out to talk to Accidental Gods about the nature of the present moment, how we can find the learning tools that will bridge to the future we want to envision, and how we translate those visions of the future into values. In a wide ranging, inspiring, edge-walking conversation, she explored the balance of inner and outer worlds, tangible and intangible and how we might connect them; she talks of falling in love with Solar Punk again (her Twitter handle is @solarpunk_girl, so that feels quite huge), having read that 'Solar Punk without the end of capitalism, is just greenwasher CyberPunk'.  So we explore what cyber punk is, too, and Protopian writing, and how it relates to Thrutopian writing, before we move onto the nature of existing Solar Punk communities and how they frame their underlying values.

This was a genuinely sparky conversation: it felt as if we really dug deep into the nuts and bolts of change and how it could happen - come along for the ride!

SolarPunk links:

SOLARPUNK: Life in the future beyond the rusted chrome of yestermorrow

How We Can Build A Solarpunk Future Right Now (ft. @Andrewism)
How We Can Build A Solarpunk Future (ft. @Our Changing Climate)

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Naturewave is a subgenre of vaporwave that explores the unresolvable tension between the development of technology and the impact that development has on nature. In this episode, we dig into this topic and discuss two excellent albums that each deal with these issues in their own unique ways.

Music Discussed

Biosphere 0​.​2 by Cyber Surfer 3D
OVERGROWTH by OSCOB / Digital Sex

Other Links

In “Naturewave,” Forest Sounds Mask Sinister Subtext

Credits

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia, and Ed Finn, the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University, to talk about how solarpunk can shape our understanding of climate change, social issues, and the future. They discuss the immense potential of storytelling in defining an achievable vision for a more sustainable world through a version of science fiction that offers a balance of realism and imagination. In fact, this imagination, Ulibarri and Finn argue, is one of our greatest tools; because issues such as climate change and various sociopolitical concepts have many solutions, applied imagination can help us explore the wide variety of potential solutions as an alternative to fatalism or denial. They also touch upon the unique optimism of solarpunk, particularly in how proposing a better future through the lens of fiction has the ability to excite and invigorate readers towards enacting change. They note that people’s innate desire to feel good means that we must create a new language for debating the immense changes coming our way. This kind of optimism might be niche now, but Solarpunk literature and culture models alternatives and recruits people who actively work to achieve them. 

A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!

Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Some of Ullibarri’s works:
Glass and Gardens
Biketopia
Adventures in Zookeeping

 

Organizations, programs, and foundations mentioned:
World Weaver Press (Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief)

 

Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University (Finn is Director) Projects include:
Future Tense, a collaboration between ASU, New America, and Slate magazine 
Luna City
The Weight of Light
Cities of Light

The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Media mentioned:
Solarpunk Chobani commercial

Authors mentioned:
Jeff VanderMeer
Marian Womack, author of The Swimmers
Neal Stephenson, author of “Innovation Starvation”
Margaret Atwood
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of ”The Coronavirus and Our Future”
Raymond Williams
Francesco Verso

For more on Solarpunk:
Imaginary Worlds Podcast: “Solarpunk the Future”

Trajectory of “Punk” artistic movements:
Punk Rock
Cyberpunk
Steampunk

Check these past episodes we referenced:
Episode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory Doctorow
Episode 64: Japanese Science Fiction with William O. Gardner
Episode 65: Design Fiction and the Pandemic with Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tešanović
Episode 66: The Legacy of Octavia E. Butler with Damian E. Duffy, John Jennings, and Shelley Streeby
Episode 36: Korean Science Fiction: Imagining other worlds

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Music:
Sieudiver: Solarpunk City

“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.

Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
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Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
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Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett

Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more.

Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various cultural contributions, and hope you are all having a wonderful week.  

LINKS

thejaymo.net

Permanentlymoved.online

Comeinternetwith.me

https://www.thejaymo.net/solarpunk-rusted-chrome/

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/solarpunk-grand-dress-rehearsal/

https://www.thejaymo.net/seeing-through-the-debris/

https://stacktivism.com/

(Rediffusion du 30 septembre 2019) Inventer des utopies, de nouvelles manières de fonctionner, plus en harmonie avec la nature. Un avenir plus optimiste pour imaginer un monde  qui n’a pas l’air d’un mur froid et sans vie. C’est un peu ça la motivation du mouvement solarpunk. Avec Charles Trahan

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We know Québec's past and its present... but what about the future? Join host Claire-Marie Brisson as she interviews R. Jean Mathieu, Franco-Californian sci-fi author of a new short story entitled "Glâcehouse." This futuristic tale reconceptualizes the way we perceive Québec and Canada today, and challenges us to think far beyond the limits of the present.

Find R. Jean Mathieu here: https://twitter.com/trueroscoe