Educational Resources

People


General Solarpunk

Youtube

The Solarpunk Scene - So often we see visions of a grim future, Solarpunk is a movement and sci-fi genre that pictures what the world would be like with a sustainable society built upon 100% renewable energy. I'm Lindsay Jane, and the Solarpunk Scene is my exploration of the expanding positive force that is changing the world. Check out my videos and the website to see what's going on, and I hope that you can join me on this journey of trying to save the future.

Podcasts

Solarpunk Now! - Solarpunk Now! is a podcast at the intersection of art, science, and politics. An alternative to the pessimistic futurism of cyberpunk or other dystopias, solarpunk is a vision of a brighter tomorrow. Solarpunk Now! is about radical ideas, projects and theories working to make the future kinder, healthier, and more sustainable. Let’s demand a brighter future together!


SolarPunk Permaculture - The SolarPunk Permaculture Podcast seeks to forge the powerful narrative force of the SolarPunk movement w/ the ethics and design principles that underpin Permaculture.


Nature/Environmentalism/Biology/Gardening/Farming

Sites

Reserva Minnehaha - Por iniciativa de seus proprietários, a criação da Reserva Minnehaha deu origem aos primeiros projetos de conservação ambiental na história do município de Almas. Ao longo de mais de 10 anos, esses projetos tiveram o suporte técnico da EMBRAPA Cerrados, do IBAMA, do Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza - ISPN e da Fundação Pró-Natureza - Funatura. Com o suporte financeiro do Programa de Desenvolvimento das Nações Unidas e do Fundo Nacional do Meio Ambiente, os moradores do entorno da Reserva foram pela primeira vez treinados para enfrentar os enormes desafios da conservação dos recursos naturais. Desde 2006, com a entrada em vigor da legislação estadual que regulamenta os repasses para os municípios de 13% do ICMS arrecadado pelo governo do estado - a lei do ICMS Ecológico -, a Reserva Minnehaha tem sido também instrumental para a implementação de políticas públicas em Almas.

Youtube

Happen Films - Documentary films about sustainability, tiny houses, permaculture, natural building, and more. We chose film because we believe it’s the most powerful way to share these ideas. We also love making films, and love that the process – the people we meet, the research we do, the conversations we have, the stories we get to share – brings us so much hope to offset the grief we feel about what’s been happening to our world. Through film we can share that hope, with the aim of inspiring change in people’s lives and creating a better world.


Our Changing Climate - Video essays on a burning planet.


The Solarpunk Farmer - Hi everyone, my name is Andreas. I am a lover of plants, music, green gadgets, and our beautiful Earth. This channel chronicles my explorations into the realm of ecological farming practices, the marvels of sustainable technology, and the rabbit hole of environmental thought and philosophy.

Radio/Podcasts

Ecoshock - Latest science, authors, issues – from climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, solar storms, the economy, and peace. Ready for re-broadcast, computer, iPod, or mp3 player. As heard on over 104 non-profit radio stations in 5 countries.


News/Articles

Website/Online Reading

Science Daily: Top Environmental Stories - Your source for the latest research news


Mongabay - Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese by leveraging over 800 correspondents in some 70 countries. We are dedicated to evidence-driven objective journalism.
Our main beats are forests, wildlife, oceans, and the conservation sector. We also undertake special reporting projects, which are deep dives on specific topics and geographies.


Science News - For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the atomic age in 1945, the space race, and the revolution of genetic engineering from the discovery of DNA to today’s gene-editing technology.


Environmental News Network


Yes! Magazine - YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism.


Low Tech Magazine - Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.


No Tech Magazine - We refuse to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution.


Earth.Org - Environmental News, Data Analysis, Research & Policy Solutions.


Lever News - The Lever, formerly known as The Daily Poster, is a reader-supported investigative news outlet that holds accountable the people and corporations manipulating the levers of power. The organization was founded by owner David Sirota, an award-winning journalist and Oscar-nominated writer who served as the presidential campaign speechwriter for Bernie Sanders.


Resilience - Resilience.org aims to support building community resilience in a world of multiple emerging challenges: the decline of cheap energy, the depletion of critical resources like water, complex environmental crises like climate change and biodiversity loss, and the social and economic issues which are linked to these. We like to think of the site as a community library with space to read and think, but also as a vibrant café in which to meet people, discuss ideas and projects, and pick up and share tips on how to build the resilience of your community, your household, or yourself.


Jacobin - Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.

Youtube

Positive Leftist News - Together, we will win!


Academic

Small/Indie Press

Haymarket Books - YouTube | Site - Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.

Website/Online Reading

The Journal of Sustainability Education (JSE) - The Journal of Sustainability Education (JSE) serves as a forum for academics and practitioners to share, critique, and promote research, practices, and initiatives that foster the integration of economic, ecological, and social-cultural dimensions of sustainability within formal and non-formal educational contexts.


Utopian Studies - Utopian Studies publishes scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to utopias, utopianism, utopian literature, utopian theory, and intentional communities. Contributing authors come from a diverse range of fields, including American studies, architecture, the arts, classics, cultural studies, economics, engineering, environmental studies, gender studies, history, languages and literatures, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology and urban planning. Each issue also includes dozens of reviews of recent books.


Political History, Thought and Theory - Marxism/Socialism/Communism/Anarchism/Communalism

Website/Online Reading

Marxist Internet Archive - An incredible, multilingual resource of Marxist primary documents.


Communalism - a liberatory alternative - The ideas discussed in this pamphlet are based, by and large, on the work of Murray Bookchin.

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Marxism in a Minute - Hadas Thier, author of A People's Guide to Capitalism, breaks down important Marxist ideas in these digestible one-minute shorts...that sometimes longer than a minute.


Second Thought - Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Socialist perspective.


F.D. Signifier - Come here to watch my video essays on black movies and media


Andrewisms - Hi, I'm Andrew Sage and I'm tryna learn and explore as much as possible.


The Deprogram - What do an Iraqi, a Balkan Slav and a Southerner from the US have in common? A burning hatred for the system. Oh, and a podcast.
Say no to eating out of the trash can of ideology. Join us on a journey exploring and critically assessing the perceived “normalcy” of late-stage capitalism. The only truly international, global, and anti-capitalist Podcast you’ll find.


the fire these times - Each week, Joey Ayoub brings you conversations at the intersection of politics, culture and the environment. Named after the James Baldwin book 'The Fire Next Time', this is a podcast about tackling the 21st century.


Doomer Optimism - A podcast about localized, actionable solutions to the climate crisis, and the wider crucible of our time.

Podcast

Srsly Wrong - is a comedy podcast about: utopian possibilities, universal human, emancipation, unironic attempts at world peace, metamodernism and social ecology

Personal

Ecosophia - blog. John Michael Greer is a widely read author, blogger, and astrologer whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.