Archive - Sunshine and Seedlings: A Newsletter by HydroponicTrash

Fighting For Liberation in the Face of Fascism

They tried to bury us, but little did they know - we were seeds.

Nov 15 •

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January 2024

Building Autonomous, Off-Grid, Encrypted, and Solar Powered Communications Infrastructure

A guide on building autonomous communication networks with LoRa that work without wider communications infrastructure. Combining techniques for…

Jan 10 •

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August 2023

Federated Ecovillages & Steps Towards a Modern Cybersyn

Thoughts on how we can create federated and interconnected ecovillages, create networks of semi nomadic housing, and use technology to help us make it…

Aug 4, 2023 •

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May 2023

The Future Looks Green: Hemp, Algae, and Ideas for Ecovillages and Cooperative Life

How plants can make medicine, food, bricks, clothes, fuel, compost and more all while sequestering carbon and how we can collectively work towards…

May 30, 2023 •

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Appropriate Technology, Permacomputing, Post Growth, and Ecomodernism.

To adapt to the changing climate, we need to radically rethink how and why we do the things we do. From technology, to social movements, to economics…

May 25, 2023 •

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Design Fiction: Hapticore VR

An exercise in design fiction, creating fictional products and objects for a speculative world. A mega-corporation creates a VR headset, and an…

May 2, 2023 •

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April 2023

The Good Life: Buen Vivir, Hygge, Solarpunk & Degrowth.

How the intersections of these ideas might show us how a good life might feel in a postcapitalist, ecological, and equal future.

Apr 6, 2023 •

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March 2023

Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing

A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in…

Mar 24, 2023 •

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February 2023

Social Ecology & Solarpunk: The aesthetics of radical change

Part of a series of responses while taking a course by the Institute for Social Ecology: "Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics".

Feb 4, 2023 •

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January 2023

Tiny Free Stores & Libraries of Everything: Steps Towards a Post-Capitalist Future

We want to build the world we want to see. How building free stores and open libraries of books, tools, resources, and things can bring us closer to a…

Jan 28, 2023 •

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November 2022

Open Source Societies

An exploration of ideas that cross between computer science & tech, Solarpunk, and radical forms of political organizing.

Nov 7, 2022 •

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September 2022

Tiny Banned Book Library

Broadcast a digital library of challenged or banned books with a portable anti-censorship e-book server.

Sep 16, 2022 •

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