Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis. Almanac for the Anthropocene collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement's ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more-all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action. Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice, Almanac for the Anthropocene unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.
Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and coeditor of Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. She lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Bronte Christopher Wieland has an MFA in creative writing and environment and is coeditor of Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. He lives in Reno, Nevada.
Introduction: The Situation So Far Phoebe Wagner and BrontE Christopher Wieland Part 1: Generativity Not Just Solar: Creating Our Own Powers, Stories, and Spaces BrontE Christopher Wieland 1.Solarpunk Is a Verb for Rising The Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio 2.In Defense of Hope Margaret Killjoy 3. Feeding Imagination Giulia Lepori and Michal Krawczyk 4. A Collective Gardening Shed of Concepts for Planting Solarpunk Futures Christoph D. D. Rupprecht Part 2: Independence Building toward Autonomy: Ways of Reclaiming the Present and the Future BrontE Christopher Wieland 5. Your Mineral Footprint Gabriel Aliaga 6. Solarpunk Design Guidelines Navarre Bartz 7. How to Build a Solar-Powered Website Kris De Decker 8. Solarpunks See the World: Traversing the World without Destroying It Craig Stevenson Part 3: Community "All Organizing Is Science Fiction": On Dreaming a Solarpunk Community Phoebe Wagner 9. Science Fiction and Disability: Engage! Petra Kuppers 10. The Urban Reef: Breaking Down Barriers between Green Spaces in Urban Environments Octavia Cade 11. The Commensal Canine Susan Haris 12. Solarpunk: The Fruitful Revolution Connor D. Louiselle Part 4: Ingenuity Solarpunk Ingenuity and DIY Projects Phoebe Wagner 13. Visible Mending: A Recipe for Beautiful and Sustainable Clothing Sari Fordham 14. Appalachian Solarpunk: Growing Trees from Seed for the Plant Revolution Vance Mullis and Joy Lew 15. Anthrocene Strategy: Foraging Michael J. DeLuca 16. Multispecies Community Garden: A More-Than-Human Design Concept Proposal 00 for Well-Being in Shrinking Cities Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Aoi Yoshida, and Lihua Cui Conclusion: Looking Forward Phoebe Wagner and BrontE Christopher Wieland Contributors
"With their new anthology, Almanac for the Anthropocene, Wagner and Wieland continue to break new ground in the solarpunk genre. And like Sunvault, this new collection of work is sure to be a core component of solarpunk's standard reading curriculum." -- Justine Norton-Kertson, Solarpunk Magazine "I'm thankful for all that Wagner and Wieland have done to gather and champion those working in the solarpunk movement, and I believe this book will help bring new solarpunks into the fold, ready to join them in further thought and action." Matt Bell, author of Appleseed "Wagner and Wieland demonstrate the breadth of the solarpunk movement through the collection's ferocious expression of many possible futures, giving us tools and strategies for bringing those about, but reminding us that the conversation is not, and perhaps not ever, over." Sean Guynes, coeditor of Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction
