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[freackthejester]

I Reading a Novel

New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson (The name is a link) I love world-building, and NY2140 delivered. It built a future New York that felt very believable. Capitalism is essentially the antagonist of the story, and it shows what markets could look like if allowed to continue existing, with people still refusing to notice bubbles before they happen, everything being gambling, that sort of thing. Being such a believable extrapolation of current trends, I would love to have more people read it and be aware of the story lines and characters so I can reference it. For example, I am totally a Charlotte. 

The copy I read was from the library, and the book was popular enough that I generally only had it for a week or so at a time because someone else had it on hold, so I read the book in chunks over a couple of months. But the characters were distinct enough that I did not have a hard time picking up where I left off and remembering what was up. Considering my memory, that is impressive. This was managed in part by having the chapters being from different character's point’s of view. The voices for the chapters were all pretty distinct, especially at the beginning, before everyone meets up. 

Characters: I do not have things to say on all of them, and none of this will make sense if you did not read the book because I am not going to summarize anything. My blog, my rules

Mutt&Jeff: Jef made me even more of a communist. I ship them. 

Amelia: Sweet soul, must protecct

Officer Gen: I love her, but see below

Franklin: Head-cannoned as autistic. Starts annoying, gets better, kind of. 

Charlotte: Goals

Downsides: 

Too Straight: for a world with such interesting things to think about how next SUnday AD is going to be, Mr. Robinson is very off the pulse of the future on gender and sexuality. There are nods to things improving; the president of the united states and the Mayor of New York are both women. The female characters in the book are all fleshed out and cool, but outside of nods to one of them being in a former relationship with a woman, no one is openly gay? Everyone is not in drag all the time from our point of view because fashion has been strongly de-gendered? It is not a huge subject that comes up in life every fucking day? In your rather liberalized future? Come on now

Also, Officer Gen. Officer Gen is a black female NYPD Officer who is tall. This is mentioned every time she comes up, which leads me to assume everyone else in the cast is white, because it does not come up with anyone else. 

What else am I supposed to think?

Despite these glaring omissions, I think that the story itself is good and most of all, worthy of emulation. The New York it presents is a reasonable half-step to a solarpunk utopia, and I think we could have fun with it. 

[alexardov-blog]

Solarpunk Manifesto

I am a permaculturalist and a writer and since I discovered solarpunk I fell in love with it.

I read everything I could about solarpunk and I decided to reorganize in a Solarpunk Manifesto some of the material that was collected in the Solarpunk Reference Guide by @solarpunks.

I would like to publish it as "The Solarpunk Collective" without any specific autor, since I just reorganized it, but it was actually written by many different people. What do you think? I would love some feedback and comments and I would love if it was published in many different places. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSeD18lop83qVoMJSzcQVo_8wtTInaFLOo0qXrX41dM/edit?usp=sharing

We need to have the solarpunk wikipedia page back up and a solarpunk manifesto could lead to that.

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Also, I am about to publish a novel (in Spanish) about permaculture in a solarpunk fashion and I would like to publish the Manifesto in it as well.