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# Solarpunk reading list
- URL: https://www.gabestein.com/9gngcp8l/
- Published: 2021-09-08T02:16:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-02T18:39:59.000Z
- Description: My favorites so far. Extremely incomplete!
- Author: Gabriel Stein
- Tags: solarpunk, #Import 2025-06-24 22:46

An extremely incomplete list of solarpunk things that I’ve personally consumed and find useful/inspiring/fun/good/interesting. May update over time.

## Manifestos

### [*Solarpunk: Notes towards a manifesto*](https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/?ref=gabestein.com)[, Adam Flynn, 2014](https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/?ref=gabestein.com)

The original pseudo-manifesto. Probably best to start here.

### [*Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow*](https://www.thejaymo.net/long-form/solarpunk-rusted-chrome?ref=gabestein.com)[, Jay Springett, 2019](https://www.thejaymo.net/long-form/solarpunk-rusted-chrome?ref=gabestein.com)

A brilliant look at mass media and the need to imagine new futures.

### [On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk, Andrew Dana Hudson, 2015](https://medium.com/solarpunks/on-the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk-c5a7b4bf8df4?ref=gabestein.com)

As advertised, delves into the politics of solarpunk in an extremely compelling way.

## Research

### [Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics, Eric Hunting, 2020](https://medium.com/@erichunting/solarpunk-post-industrial-design-and-aesthetics-1ecb350c28b6?ref=gabestein.com)

Illustrated exploration into infrastructure and industrial design systems, tools, and technologies needed to achieve solarpunk futures at various states of imagined solarpunk societal development.

## Fiction

### [*Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation*](https://bookshop.org/books/sunvault-stories-of-solarpunk-and-eco-speculation/9781937794750?ref=gabestein.com)[, 2017](https://bookshop.org/books/sunvault-stories-of-solarpunk-and-eco-speculation/9781937794750?ref=gabestein.com)

I’m only a few stories in, but so far it’s the most mature and interesting collection of stories I’ve read.

## News & Commentary

### [*Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism*](https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5aym/solarpunk-is-not-about-pretty-aesthetics-its-about-the-end-of-capitalism?ref=gabestein.com)[, Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, 2021](https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5aym/solarpunk-is-not-about-pretty-aesthetics-its-about-the-end-of-capitalism?ref=gabestein.com)

A re-introduction covering some of the latest developments in solarpunk, with quotes from some of its biggest names.

### [*Solarpunk wants to save the world*](http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/life/215749-solarpunk?ref=gabestein.com)[, Ben Valentine, circa 2017](http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/life/215749-solarpunk?ref=gabestein.com)

An optimistic take on the budding genre from a few years ago, including quotes from some of its early proponents.

## Communities

### [solarpunks.net](https://solarpunks.tumblr.com/?ref=gabestein.com)

The original tumblr, curating solarpunk-y things.

### [r/solarpunk](https://reddit.com/r/solarpunk?ref=gabestein.com)

The sub-reddit, where people are mostly discussing whether bits of news are/are not solarpunk.