JacobCoffinWrites

I just make them available for free - the images with their text writeups are here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-from-a-solarpunk-future/

And the full size versions are available here: https://mega.nz/folder/PA1XGQhQ#eXMPhzAwkv01_PQDINJvfw

If you wanted to own a physical copy feel free to get them printed

Sorry to hear that. I give them away whenever I finish one (these ones are already handed off to a refugee resettlement agency though I also sometimes offer them up on my local Buy Nothing group). If your old laptop still has its original OS working you might be able to do a factory reset, or worst case, as long as the hardware works, you could try to install Linux Mint on it, which is what I'd do. Best of luck!

I think robogromo's /c/pigrow might be able to help with this, though it has so many features it might overshoot what you need.

I just helped my neighbor replace his front lawn with low-growing roman chamomile and lavender. I’m hoping to rig up a little solar powered water feature using secondhand parts soon.

I have getting ready to replace the holes in the solitary bee house I set up at my parents’ place:

I've been cutting 6" sticks from storm damaged tree limbs, and drilling the various-size holes (I've got a set of 8" metric drill bits that get the full-length they need (some folk just use cardboard tubes or reeds, but this works fine for me. It's important to replace the sticks every year after they emerge so we don’t propagate diseases or parasites in the solitary bees.

Once I find a couple 6"x1" oak boards (maybe when someone throws out a bed?) I’ll be able to cut the arching back pieces for a wood and cast iron park bench I'm trying to fix up. I need to take a wire wheel to the rusty metal parts, then paint it and fabricate the wooden parts of the back (I already have the slats for the seat but they do need to be sanded, stained, urethaned, and attached). Then I can put it out near our local bike path.

Need to put a new tire and tube on my front bike wheel.

One of my hobbies is fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them to an organization in my city that rehomes refugees. I actually do ewaste in general, mostly through our local Buy Nothing groups, (everything from HDMI adapters to space heaters) but the modern-ish laptops go to the charity. I was able to get three laptops ready to go recently, and I'll be looking for more to work on for folks in my community next.

The Lenovo and MacBook Air came from a friend at the recycling center - he's allowed to set computers aside for donation if he catches the people dropping them off and gets permission, otherwise they get sent away for secure destruction. He also gets me laptop chargers sometimes too, which saves a ton of money. The one in the middle I found in corporate ewaste (I got permission to dig through on occasion). Everything's been tested and wiped and updated as far as it'll go. This set was easy, they were all intact, so I didn't have to get any replacement parts.

I’m also working on a set of photobashes, styled like postcards from a solarpunk future, that I'm hoping will help push the visual aspect of solarpunk art more towards the rest of the movement. I want people to see solarpunk art and think, "why aren't we doing that?" or “could that work?” I think it should depict a more lived-in, human future and demonstrate possibilities, technologies, and alternative ways of doing things. I'm also trying to cover seasons, locations, and topics like industry that I haven't seen in other solarpunk art to sway people's first impressions from thinking it's an empty aesthetic. I try to advocate for values like reuse I think fit the movement but are underrepresented in the visual artwork.

I just helped my neighbor replace his front lawn with low growing roman chamomile and lavender. I'm hoping to rig up a little solar powered water feature using secondhand parts soon.

I have been cutting 6" sticks from storm damaged tree limbs, and drilling the various-size holes for the the solitary bee house I set up at my parents' place. Need to replace the sticks every year after they emerge so we don't propagate diseases or parasites in the solitary bees.

Once I find a couple 6"x1" oak boards (maybe when someone throws out a bed?) I'll be able to cut the arching back pieces for a wood and cast iron park bench im trying to fix up. I need to take a wire wheel to the rust and paint it, fabricate the back (I already have the slats for the seat but they do need to be sanded, stained, urethaned, and attached). Then I can put it out near our local bike path.

Need to put a new tire and tube on my front bike wheel.

I'm working on some more photobashes too.

I'd never really thought about the fact that museums doing photogrammetry to preserve artifacts could link up with the folks who 3D print their own Warhammer figures, but here we are

Kind of. I'll have to check out their shredder designs. I bought a filistruder for a local makerspace awhile back, because I wanted to be able to reuse my bad 3d prints and supports etc, but wanted it to be available to a wider community since I wouldn't use it enough to justify the cost. Unfortunately, at the time, solutions for shredding/granulating solid prints were few and far between (and expensive to make or buy). And if you can't get the plastic small enough, the extruder on its own isn't terribly useful. I'd very much like to find a decent solution so I can get this going again.

Thanks for suggesting temporary tracks, I definitely wouldn't have thought of that and it's a really cool idea! Ive updated my text on other sites to mention it and link back here.

And definitely agreed on deliberately rebuilding greenways and habitats. I imagine this could happen both automatically (wait and see where people resettle, and what areas are more deserted - probably there's some deconstruction carried out at the local level, the same way the pyramids and roman roads were scavenged for building supplies) and deliberately (assess the abandoned areas, check their structures for occupancy, draw up community plans for rewilding, argue over it a lot, rezone some areas for greenways/conservation, and eventually bring in crews and volunteers to do the actual deconstruction).

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Just wanted to say I really like this idea, especially as mixed with local mesh networks. I agree with the point about storage, and mostly I'm just really looking forward to reading about some of these services, and seeing what this could look like in the future.

Good luck!

This looks great! I think I also like the cover with the text split up, but both look polished to me.

Thanks!! I'll check it out!