Purpose

The purpose of this wiki is to collect practical plans, tools, and technology that can be use to make a Solarpunk future a reality.

The goal is a public domain instruction manual designed to be accessible and relevant to as diverse an audience as possible. It is important to meet readers at their level of understanding, technical abilities, and resources.

Contextualize

It is important to help orient new readers to the content of this wiki with context and narrative. Tell a practical story of how the reader can go from what they know now (current conditions), to a more sustainable, beautiful, and technologically advanced future.

Describe

Practical methods and projects for different numbers of people. Each level comes with more complexity and responsibility.

Individuals

For one person or couple with a focus on finding community.

• Window box gardening
• Small scale Aquaponics
• Suburban backyard commons
• Finding and joining a Community Garden
  • Starting a community garden if none exist in your area
• Finding and joining local activist groups
• Volunteering for community service
  • Soup Kitchens
  • Homeless Shelters

Small Group

A group of 10 or more people looking for larger projects to take on together

• Forming an organization
• Cooperatives
  • Housing
  • Worker
  • Purchasing
• Solar installations
• Urban farming
• Disaster preparedness and mutual aid

Large Group

A large group of people of 100+ approaching the "Enterprise" scale

• Resource self sufficiency
• Manufacturing
• Engineering for longevity
• Land trusts
• Vertical Integration
• Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software
• Inventory management
• Customer Relations Management CRM
• Project planning
• Issue tracking

Town

A community large enough to call itself a town.

• Governance
• Compliance with local laws and regulations
• Waste collection & disposal

City

A town grows into a city and has more substantial requirements

• GIS Mapping to keep track of all of your Infrastructure
• Drinking water purification
• Waste water treatment
• Sewers
• Treatment plants
• Transport Infrastructure
• Paths
• Rails
• Roads
• Social Safety nets
  • As people become strangers they larger organization needs a safety net

Direct

Provide the reader with high quality, actionable documentation. Collect or find contributors with the experience to make detailed project plans.

• Create "lego like" instructions that are heavy on images rather than text, to ease the burden of translation.
• Create or find engineering (assembly) drawings when making physical things
  • Try to reduce parts and materials to those which would be accessible to our target audience
  • Architectural blue prints
  • Find examples like the Opensource Ecology "Seed Home"
    • Prusa assembly instructions

Instruct

Where ever possible capture links to high quality (verified) instructional content Examples for FreeCAD

• MangoJelly Solutions on Youtube
• "4 Axis Printing" on Youtube

Organization as System

Every organism and organization is a system. Systems theory provides a structural framework that helps us think about how our organization interacts with the environment that it exists within. What does the organization take in? What does it output? What are the boundaries that define its character?

Environment

Every organization operates within an environment. This wiki is public and on the internet. The internet is a very diverse and complex environment. There are many voices, and many opinions in this environment.

Feedback

• Deviation-Correcting
• Deviation-Amplifying