Our Wonderful Green Future

BlueSky is a fantastic place to learn more about climate change — from scientists, analysts, and other experts who generously donate their time.

Here are some of my favorites.

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Why we need more trees in our cities...
#ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Trees #Pollution #ClimateAction #SolarPunk #HopePunk #OWGF #Urbanism
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Bioplhilia and the need to fill our cities with nature. Biophilia refers to the innate human tendency to seek connections with nature and other living beings. It reflects the inherent bond humans have with the natural world, which positively impacts bot…

Biophilia refers to the innate human tendency to seek connections with nature and other living beings. #Biodiversity #Biophilia #climateChange #Environment #nature #OWGF #Regeneration #SolarPunk #StrongTowns #sustainability #Urbanism
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YouTube video by PBS SoCal Can Trees Really Improve our Neighborhoods? | Earth Focus | PBS SoCal

As climate change intensifies, rising temperatures pose growing challenges, with city environments amplifying heat through pavement and concrete. In LA, some streets are suffering more than others due to uneven heat distribution
#Planting #LosAngeles #Trees #PBS #ClimateChange
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Is this a template for the Solar Punk City of the future? Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan aims to integrate Gross National Happiness principles with sustainable development, creating eco-friendly urban spaces rooted in cultural values. The project emph…

#Urbanism #SolarPunk #Sustainability #Bhutan
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Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural Barcelona: 286, 54 Paris: 235, 138 London: 171, 92 Rome: 164, 118 Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given) Athens: 96, 79 Budapest: 47, 24 Zagreb: 31, 25 Lisbon: 21, 71 Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given) Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

Yes climate change is already killing people

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#China #ClimateChange #OWGF #Solar #SolarPunk #Sustainability #WindPower
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An oval shaped building made from local sandstone nestled in the desert. With a oval courtyard, with two trees, a solar panel array on the roof as well as a blue tiles. There are gaps in the stone to provide ventilation.

View from inside a room partially looking out to the oval courtyard.

Drone image of a section of the oval building with blue tile on the roof

Children playing on the staircase with light pouring in between the bricks

Located in the Thar Desert in the north of India, the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls' School was built to educate and teach over 400 girls between the ages of five and sixteen.
The design looked to symbols of femininity and the nearby sand-dunes to create a […]

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New building in Bogota that's designed round really bright colorful columns, with giant bowls on top filled with green. Dusk image with internal lighting showing through.

New building in Bogota that's designed round really bright colorful columns, with giant bowls on top filled with green. Front elevation view highlighting plants.

New building in Bogota that's designed round really bright colorful columns, with giant bowls on top filled with green. Outside courtyard with people sat in groups talking.

Some good #SolarPunk vibes here. The project is currently under Construction. #Bogota #Columbia #OWGF #Urbanism #Architecture owgf.org
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Hedonistic Sustainability: Building a SolarPunk City The real value of the SolarPunk movement has always been in making a sustainable future look desirable. No one is going to buy into the idea of a sustainable future if it looks like a worse version…

Hedonistic Sustainability: Building a SolarPunk City
owgf.org/2025/06/07/h... #Copenhagen #Denmark #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #Regeneration #SolarPunk #StrongTowns #Sustainability #Urbanism

An underground library seamlessly integrated into a grassy hillside, with its curved, earth-covered roof blending into the natural landscape. The building’s entrance is formed by a gentle cut into the slope, revealing warm wooden interiors visible through a large glass façade. Inside, the library features concentric circular bookshelves and cozy reading nooks, illuminated by soft, natural light filtering from above.

The Library for the Farmers.
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#SolarPunk #Library #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #Japan #Architecture #Environment

Participatory Urbanism: A beginners guide I recently did a speech to my local Rotary Club about a Participatory Urbanism project I am working on. To my surprise, the audience appeared equally interested in the whole Participatory Urbanism …

#Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #SolarPunk #StrongTowns #sustainability #Urbanism #ParticipatoryUrbanism
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Our Wonderful Green Future (@OWGF@pixelfed.social) Wonderful new #SolarPunk art project from @alxd@writing.exchange in collaboration with #Andrewism Check out the Story Seed Library and the Art Collab 2025: Life of Learning #StorySeedLibrary #OurWond...

Wonderful new #SolarPunk art project from @alxd@writing.exchange in collaboration with @andrewsage.bsky.social
Check out the Story Seed Library and the Art Collab 2025: Life of Learning #StorySeedLibrary #OurWonderfulGreenFuture
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Building a Sustainable home in the Australian Outback
#Australia #ecoFriendly #Environment #Outback #OWGF
#SolarPunk #Sustainability #SustainableLiving
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Our Wonderful Green Future (@OWGF@pixelfed.social) I am just marveling at some recent #Cycling photos from Chris Bruntlett (https://www.modacitylife.com/about) from #China It appears that the #Bicycle is making a come back in the country that was once...

I am just marveling at some recent #Cycling photos from Chris Bruntlett (www.modacitylife.com/about) from #China. It appears that the #Bicycle is making a come back in the country that was once known as "The kingdom of the bicycle"
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I keep my moral imagination burning here: www.owgf.org
#SolarPunk

Some more sweeeet #SolarPunk vibes. This time from Hans Christian Andersen Museum.
#OWGF #Architecture #Denmark
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Peer-to-peer energy in developing nations It’s estimated that globally 1.18 Billion people are living in energy poverty and 700 Million are living with no electricity at all. [1] Many of them are in rural areas with no chance of ever…

Peer-to-peer energy trading + cheap solar & storage = millions of people lifted out of energy poverty. owgf.org/2025/03/10/p...
#Bangladesh #Cambodia #ClimateChange #Energy #MicroGrids #OWGF #Peer2Peer #RenewableEnergy #Solar #SolarPower #SolarPunk #Sustainability

Some more #SolarPunk vibes. This time from Skovbrynet Basecamp. A socially interactive structure, built for students and private renters, that snakes through a #nature park. pixelfed.social/i/web/profil...

Link?

@techwontsave.us @parismarx.com
What other Podcasts and Youtube channels would you recommend people like me, who want to find out more about issues with technology, follow?

llustration of Green Roofs on homes in Brazil.

#SolarPunk #Urbanism #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #Regeneration #Green

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Solarpunk USA A hopefully nationwide movement to organize ourselves into creating networks of communities to act as sort of a union for the planet in the age of climate fear and doomerism Current logo courtesy of ...

@solarpunkalana.bsky.social
Have you seen this channel? It has some good Solar Punk Community building guides.
www.youtube.com/@SolarpunkUS...

How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa’s Great Green Wall WOW What an inspiring video! Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Senegal to see a forest garden movement which is contributing to Africa’s Great Green Wall. Andrew accompanies…

In Senegal a forest garden movement is contributing to Africa’s Great Green Wall. #Regeneration #Permaculture #Africa #Senegal #OWGF
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Moving from an Egosystem to an Ecosystem In an Egosystem, the individual is seen as the centre of the universe. Success is defined solely by personal achievement, and the value of community, empathy, and shared prosperity are all relegate…

#Biodiversity #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Ecosystem #Egosystem #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #SolarPunk #Sustainability owgf.org/2025/02/15/m...

Our Wonderful Green Future (@OWGF@mastodon.world) Attached: 1 image #SolarPunk quotes from #Andrewism 's updated video 5/5

#SoalrPunk mastodon.world/@OWGF/113950...

YouTube video by Extra Andrewism What is Solarpunk? (2025 Edition)

Love #Andrewism (updated) explanation of #SolarPunk
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"Solarpunk is what helped me realise that the future’s uncertainty is cause for hope, not despair. It helped me recognise that we have so much untapped potential. Solarpunk is a shining vision of a positive future"

Our Wonderful Green Future (@OWGF@pixelfed.social) THIS is the vehicle of the Future!!! Simple, versatile, practical, shared, electric and hopefully easy to fix and maintain by India's small road side "garages." Needs some #Solar panels on the roof ...

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#OWGF #Hyundai #E3W #E4W #Urbanism #Transport #India

What Chinese web sites would you recommend that cover China's Green initiatives?
Clean Energy, EVs, Urbanism, Regeneration and Conservation?