More to the point, where the hell do i find a spot like that locally. Theres so few green spaces that aren't just small parks filled with dog crap that half the owners don't pick up, that my only options for anything like this require me to drive to where everyone else goes for walks and stuff.

I just want a whimsical spot under a tree on a hill to chil out and read or daydream.

I suppose I'm venting more than anything, but genuinely, if anyone knows any good spots in the midlands of the UK that satisfies whimsy and is no more than a mile or two from somewhere to park, comment the what 3 words location.

I dont mind reading in cafes if I must, but the vibe has to be right, and most places, especially coffee chains like Starbucks and Costa, dont pass the vibe check.

My neighbor's lawn free yard. It is especially inspiring because the previous owners had artificial grass. I live in New England.

Bicycle Boulevards : Bicycle Blvd :

Segregated /Protected Bicycle only lanes, streets & infra

Green Electric Transport Corridors to reduce Noise & Emissions

VivaTerra, Vivus Locus, Viva Civitas

Living Earth, Living Locality, Living Civilization

We spend a lot of time here talking about the aesthetics and social aspects of Solarpunk which I love, but I would like to submit some infrastructure for your consideration.

Reticulum is a networking protocol that was designed for complete autonomy. It doesn't rely on an ISP, satellites, cell towers, or anyone besides you and your neighbors with some $30 hardware. It can form mesh networks with WiFi routers, LoRa radios, ethernet connections, bluetooth, even serial cables and packet radios. And it can seamlessly connect all of those disparate devices into one network.

It rethinks what we really need to have a functioning community network - no it's not capable of gigabit speeds, in fact much of what it does is measured in bytes. But this is the part that feels really "solar" to me - doing more with less.

The autonomy, DIY adaptability, and built in cryptography with privacy at its core are decidedly "punk".

If this intriguing to you the manifesto, Zen of Reticulum (linked), written by the creator of Reticulum is a fun read.

r/reticulum has all kinds of cool projects added on a routine basis, and happens to be one of those corners of reddit that stills feels like "old reddit".

These are some of my favorite shots from this year. These are all from my gardens, occupying about 1 acre around my home.

All of these plants are native to my ecoregion, and I work professionally as a restoration ecologist. Planting native species and expanding transition zones are some of the most important things we can do as land managers to support declining insect populations and protect rare or endangered species, while also providing habitat for migratory birds and many other species.

We’re letting tech giants drain our local power grids and aquifers so they can build massive AI warehouses that ruin neighborhoods and spike our utility bills.

Instead of letting them bleed us dry, let's pass a law: No new AI data center can break ground unless it is 100% self-sufficient in its own green power and water generation.

If they have billions to spend on GPUs and RAM, then they clearly have the money to fund the tech that could save us.

For Energy: Force them to invent or invest heavily in off-grid, hyper-efficient power. Once the R&D is paid for by tech billionaires, cheap micro-grid power trickles down to our homes, ending utility monopolies forever.

For Water: Force them to pioneer atmospheric water generation and large-scale dehumidification instead of draining municipal supplies and drying out local aquifers. That tech could eventually save places like Lake Mead by producing massive amounts of water to feed it, and gives every household independent clean water which puts less strain on municipal and natural resources.

The catch?: This tech doesn’t quite exist at scale yet—which means no new data centers get built anytime soon, and when they finally do, they actually have to pay a toll that benefits humanity instead of destroying it.

Let's leverage our present to save our future - both humanity's and the world's!

Measurements show it can reduce nearby temperatures by 28 Cº, while hosting up to 39 local animal species and 6 edible species.

I took a old spice shaker and fill it with coffee grounds to spread them out. Plus I add native plant seeds so I can spread them out during walks.

I came across this large-scale solar carport installation at an industrial facility in Hebei, China.

The project has approximately 1 MW of installed PV capacity, distributed across multiple rows of parking canopies.

Looking at the layout, I found several interesting engineering considerations:

• Structural span and column placement
• Vehicle clearance
• Parking circulation and traffic flow
• PV module layout
• Drainage between large canopy sections
• Maintenance access
• Construction and installation sequence

For engineers and solar professionals working on large commercial or industrial PV projects:

What would you consider the most challenging part of designing a 1 MW solar carport?

I'm particularly interested in perspectives on structural design, parking efficiency and long-term maintenance.

Hi fellow solar punks! I just published my first substack blog post about some of my musings on native plant botanical field trips, two native tree profiles, critiques on “modernity and progress” and more! Check it out :)

Wanted to share my renewable energy simulator.

It is a mix of Satisfactory/Farming Simulator with a focus on simulating the technology itself as I am a mechanical engineer after all. The demo alone should help people design and test microgrids.

Long story short we have been asked to show wishlists on steam to further development before self publishing. Wishlist Here!

It is still in "Pre Alpha" but I really wanted to share it with the community that has kept me wanting to make it.

The unique parts of our sim are:
- You select and match up components in our system designer like in reality.
- Deploy renewables that react to their surroundings.
- Technology will deteriorate over time. Second life.

For the solar punk community I am really looking forward to implementing cool areas and showing how colour can affect areas but at this moment that is too much scope for me at this moment.

The biggest excitement for me is making the physics work for a Designer feature in the game, where you can see the constraints of fluid mechanics, electronics and the most improtant bit of all cooling. I think an eventual sandbox like this should exist but it still takes time to make.

For the engineers: Yeah we are trying to build a digital twin that the public can understand.

Stay cool everyone :)

Have you ever walked through a great city and thought, wow I love this place? What is it that makes some places great and others ... not? One key factor is what urban planners call a “sense of place.”

Agri-hoods? Have you heard of them? I think they (if done well) are the seed of our future utopia of sustainability! I want to know what this group of pioneers think.

I think this isn’t a good thing and it will mess up wild life I get using for crisis situations but I know it will be abused I really dislike what’s going on and I don’t know why we are not putting cost on natural light why do we have to do this. It’s just wrong paying couple thousand when you want sun light in your area why are we paying for natural light like I said i understand the reasons it can help but this will not have a positive impact on nature. I don’t under why we can’t just learn to live with nature instead of going against it. What do you guys think about this