Scientists [in the U.S.] are currently just testing the waters with one tidal-powered generator, but if all goes swimmingly, then it might not be long until America finds more and more of its power being supplied by the ocean.
My insomnia makes me reflect on how a sustainable future needs to honor rest, leisure, darkness, and safe nocturnal movement for people and for animals. Here’s a couple of ideas:
-reducing light pollution so we can enjoy the stars and so migrating animals can navigate
- moon gardens for native nighttime pollinators
- reducing urban noise so that bugs and frogs can hear each other
- walkable communities and better public transportation to reduce traffic
- changing the color/temperature of street lights to be less blue/cool so human and animal circadian rhythms are less disrupted
- workers gaining more leisure time and shorter working hours
- paid sick, parental, and bereavement leave
- accommodating a wider range of sleep patterns, including biphasic sleep and daytime napping
- public spaces with plenty of places to sit and lay down
- and of course, the decriminalization of drugs, sex work, and being unhoused
Lunarpunk is the sister aesthetic to solarpunk, but darker, I was actually surprised to see it has it’s own flag presented below. The basis is people moving to the moon and waiting for the earth to heal while in colonies, there would be tons of difficulties with low gravitational pull, constant unfiltered radiation from the sun, and probably even keeping warm, very compelling in my opinion.
It looks much like the solarpunk flag, but unlike the solarpunk flag, lunarpunk doesn’t have a political movement attached
Tidalpunk
Tidalpunk is basically humans moving to the sea because the land has been left unhealed for so long, it’s almost uninhabitable, so people are living on or under the sea until the land is able to start healing again/ Expansion in population has led to housing out at or under water that’s Eco-friendly and doesn’t harm wildlife, sadly this one doesn’t have a flag. Luckily it has an aesthetic though.
Sustainable, ocean-based living? Yes please, makes me wish I knew how to swim though. To be perfectly honest I’m out of ideas on this post, so if you have any more ideas, please feel free to re-blog with what sub-genres relating to solarpunk you could find. I’m certain there are niche ones that I haven’t found yet.
As always, this has been @punkofsunshine, see ya’ll soon.
just curious on why you say that the lunarpunk flag has no political movement attached? since any sort of -punk movement is inherently political as an opposition to capitalism, and the above flag has pretty obvious ties to anarchism
How I’d like to describe lunarpunk is as a narrative device and aesthetic, it’s an offshoot of the solarpunk genre, yes, but it has no movement of its own. Lunarpunk is solarpunk, but with aesthetic and attitude changes. Lunarpunk is more gritty and dark than solarpunk, but shares the same message in the way that we must treat the earth better if we want to live on it and that includes an opposition to capitalism, authoritarianism, etc. However it has no characteristics of a defined political movement as it’s using the solarpunk message solely.
Lunarpunk is the sister aesthetic to solarpunk, but darker, I was actually surprised to see it has it’s own flag presented below. The basis is people moving to the moon and waiting for the earth to heal while in colonies, there would be tons of difficulties with low gravitational pull, constant unfiltered radiation from the sun, and probably even keeping warm, very compelling in my opinion.
It looks much like the solarpunk flag, but unlike the solarpunk flag, lunarpunk doesn’t have a political movement attached
Tidalpunk
Tidalpunk is basically humans moving to the sea because the land has been left unhealed for so long, it’s almost uninhabitable, so people are living on or under the sea until the land is able to start healing again/ Expansion in population has led to housing out at or under water that’s Eco-friendly and doesn’t harm wildlife, sadly this one doesn’t have a flag. Luckily it has an aesthetic though.
Sustainable, ocean-based living? Yes please, makes me wish I knew how to swim though. To be perfectly honest I’m out of ideas on this post, so if you have any more ideas, please feel free to re-blog with what sub-genres relating to solarpunk you could find. I’m certain there are niche ones that I haven’t found yet.
As always, this has been @punkofsunshine, see ya’ll soon.
Hey! My friend @adescagram on Instagram invited me to try @feefal ’s #funguary drawing challenge! For the first week I chose: Coprinopsis comatus (Inky Cap)
Instead of something “scary” though I went for some ominous death positivity
![Scientists [in the U.S.] are currently just testing the waters with one tidal-powered generator, bu](https://64.media.tumblr.com/6af8ca5150f9238abcaa910f2cca8467/tumblr_nradkn4YPH1ua3t28o1_640.jpg "Scientists [in the U.S.] are currently just testing the waters with one tidal-powered generator, bu")
