Under construction: Fanciful spacecraft created by artist Ryder Henry await installation for May 11's Solarpunk Future event. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing ...

“Demand utopia!” That’s the tagline for a new digital magazine based in Eugene, Oregon. Solarpunk Magazine will focus on optimistic ideas about the future. What if humans came together to solve the ...

Environmental activists Nick Schwanz and Spencer Scott’s second-growth forest on their 10-acre Guerneville property is an outdoor laboratory dedicated to the emerging environmental movement known as ...

In the realm of sci-fi subgenres, there’s a little something for everyone. For the nihilists who envision a techno-dystopian future, there’s “cyberpunk.” For the romantics who like to fantasize about ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To distract myself, I picked up The Lost Cause, the latest sci-fi novel from author ...

What will the future look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like? And why on Earth—and other planets—are those questions relevant, especially given the havoc going on in the world, right here and now?

☀ Solarpunk futurism seems optimistic and whimsical. But not really. One element of the “Conservative Futurism” that I reference in the title of my upcoming book is, perhaps ironically, the notion ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Peril and Promise and Rewire. The solarpunk environmental movement is for anyone who’s digitally inclined but unafraid of dirt. Think ...