Welcome to the SolarRing!

This is a webring for solarpunks!

What is Solarpunk?

Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement concerned with imagining and creating a sustainable, egalitarian future where humans do not simply view the earth (and nature) as an object to exploit, but rather as something to live in harmony with. Solarpunk rejects doomerism and individualism; instead looking towards a future where we fix and negate the effects of climate change, colonialism with both low-tech and high-tech solutions.

The Solar- of Solarpunk refers to the green energy and sustainability aspects of the genre. The -punk of it refers to the post-capitalist, DIY, countercultural, and communal aspects.

A Brief History of Solarpunk

2008

"From Steampunk to Solarpunk" is posted on the Republic of the Bees blog discussing the MS Beluga skysails, using this as inspiration for a proposed Sci-Fi genre.

2009

The 'Greenpunk Manifesto' is posted to Matt Stagg's blog. Note: The original webpage has since been lost.

2014

Visual artist Olivia Louise creates a post on Tumblr dscribing Solarpunk as such: "But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics." Thus bringing a visual identity to the movement.

The same year, Adam Flynn publishes Solarpunk: Notes Towards a Manifesto on the science fiction forum Project Heiroglyph

2019

Using Adam Flynn's Solarpunk: Notes Towards a Manifesto, A Solarpunk Manifesto was published on Regenerative Design.

2024

Solarpunk is added to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction