The Solarpunk Society Mission
Tools for radical change, told as a story you can carry home.
The Solarpunk Society is a cultural project, a book, a growing commons of open tools, and an invitation to take practical imagination seriously again.
What we are building
Not a shiny escape hatch. A shared field guide for getting more human in public.
Bear witness. The book reports from Solar Time: a Scotland that chose public abundance over managed decline.
Make it usable. The fleet turns values into local-first tools for writers, neighbours, co-ops, and communities.
Keep it open. Share knowledge, distribute access fairly, and refuse to make hope another luxury product.
The world behind the story
The ideas reinforce each other.
Start with one thread. Follow it into the wider map when it catches.
Solar Citizen's Dividend A public floor under every life so survival stops eating imagination.
Community Infrastructure Bank A local money engine for repairs, renewables, food systems, halls, tools, and cooperative ownership.
Whistleblower's Bounty A civic reward system for exposing corruption, wage theft, ecological harm, and institutional abuse.
Sortition Citizen assemblies chosen like jury duty, supported by evidence, rotating before power curdles.
Consensus Democracy Decision-making that treats disagreement as material to work with, not noise to crush.
Food Sovereignty Local food systems that feed people before markets, landlords, or logistics shocks get a vote.
Rewilded Cities Car parks, dead verges, rooftops, and vacant lots turned into living civic infrastructure.
Local-first Software Tools that work close to people: offline-capable, private, repairable, and not held hostage by platforms.
Make it social
Bring your question, your local problem, or your half-built beautiful thing.
Reader exercises and the future community noticeboard are the place where the book becomes a conversation, not a monument.
Visit the noticeboard