Sunshine and Seedlings: A Newsletter by HydroponicTrash

Sunshine and Seedlings: A Newsletter by HydroponicTrash

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Recipes For An Off-Grid 'Internet'
How to make an off-grid micro 'internet' that can run off solar power (or any power) for emergencies, camping, protests, or building community autonomy…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tiny Banned Book Library
Broadcast a digital library of challenged or banned books with a portable anti-censorship e-book server.
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DIY Off-Grid Solar Primer
Build autonomy, a safety net and community support with your own solar power.
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Fighting For Liberation in the Face of Fascism
They tried to bury us, but little did they know - we were seeds.
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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…
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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".
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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.
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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…
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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…
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