Solarpunk is, in its simplest definition, the polar opposite of dystopian science fiction. I could try explaining it more in-depth with my own words (I have way too many on the topic), but that would take way longer than any story you can find on this page. Instead, I will point you to Andrew Sage's short video (🇮🇹 con sottotitoli in italiano!) that really captures the core of the artistic and political movement that wants a better world. Here's the English audio version:
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How does the average Tuesday look like in a Solarpunk Piemonte?
Archaeologists strive to preserve the past. Oblificators seek to erase it.
While empires argue at the Congress of Vienna, citizens of would-be Europe dream of a better continent.
The police is going to hunt the activists down, unless I can show them who the real culprit was.
How do we convince people to build an alternative to capitalism?
Even without humans, the Greenhouse keeps nursing the flora inside it.
A desperate travel across the desert to find something more than a recipient.
Collective action brings a ray of hope among dreadful future scenarios.
[Arcane fanfiction] Ekko & Heimerdinger protect the Firelights Hideout against the rising threats of Piltover and Zaun. No time/dimension travel; branches from S2E2.
An insular community faces a harrowing dilemma: drought, or interacting with capitalism once again?
The voyage continues! The Meteorina crew confronts a power-hungry mafia that denies electricity to the whole Reggio-Messina-Villa metropolis.
The voyage continues! Aboard the Meteorina, VZ's clutches are tight around Furlan's life, but the crew always has a solution, however risky.
A megafreighter shipwrecks next to the Aeolian Islands. The crew abandons the ship and its cargo to its destiny, ecological disaster is inevitable. Unless the pirates of the Meteorina can salvage the situation, against all odds.
A heavy snowfall engulfs the Mediterranean town of Gorgoglione in the middle of spring. Chicco, Imma and Saija know how to help the townspeople.
The quest of a young rebel to shine the lights of her city once again.
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