Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Andrew Sage and is an introduction to Solarpunk: Everything you need to know about Solarpunk, how it connects to climate justice and how to get involved with the movement.

Andrew is a writer, artist, organiser, and YouTuber born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. As an ardent anarchist and firm believer in power to the people, Andrew aims to invigorate imaginations and encourage people to create a better world in the shell of the old.

What can you do?

• Andrewism is a YouTube channel that focuses on the intersections between anarchism, anthropology, history, ecology, economy, Blackness, and more, with a particular emphasis on real world solutions and the practical potential of solarpunk.
• Our Changing Climate is a YouTube channel that investigates humanity’s relationship to the natural world and all that entails.
• Think That Through is a YouTube channel that explores various aspects of climate change, the capitalocene, greenwashing, and more.
• Andrew Millison is a YouTube channel that provides excellent resources on ecosystem restoration, permaculture, and ongoing projects in the field.
• Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach is an excellent utopia novel written in 1975 that explores one potential, though flawed, manifestation of solarpunk principles in an alternative Cascadia. The author has noted that, “It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go.”

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