Solarpunk Canon
Back in 2018, I remember the a16z Crypto Canon was a helpful and inspiring resource for anyone curious about crypto. I'd like to gather a similar collection of books, essays, and films for people exploring Solarpunk today.
Many of these I've already shared or written about on the Solarpunk Substack newsletter, but I thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place for easy sharing.
Books
- The Earthseed series (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents) by Octavia Butler
- The Mars trilogy (especially Green Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
- Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
- Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
- Small is Beautiful by Ernst F. Schumacher
- Industries for Small Communities by Arthur Morgan
- The Community of the Future and the Future of Community by Arthur Morgan
- After Geoengineering by Holly Jean Buck
Films
- Black Panther (specifically the city of Wakanda)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (also read the Nausicaä anime that was the precursor to the film)
- Eat today, feed tomorrow (ad for Chobani, made by The LINE studio)
- Backyard Aquaponics Farming Fresh Fish and Vegetables with Charles Collins by PARAGRAPHIC
- Play New: Tomorrow (ad for Nike from Tokyo Olympics 2020)
- The Mondragon Experiment by BBC
Essays
- Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics by Eric Hunting and illustrated by Dustin Jacobus
- The Turnaround by Charlie Jane Anders
- Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
- Solarpunk: Notes towards a manifesto by Adam Flynn
- Off The Grid Guide by Hundred Rabbits
- Low-tech Magazine (especially How to Build a Low-tech Internet and Reinventing the Greenhouse)
- New Alchemy Journals by the New Alchemy Institute
Other
- Countryside, The Future by Rem Koolhaas and AMO (you can also read the catalog from the exhibit)
- Dustin Jacobus (@solarpunkart)