👁 Do you know what interbeing means?
The Solarpunk vision of the future
👁 Dear inter-beings,
We inter-are with every other living organism in the world. We are a living organism, not individual beings. Just think that if we didn’t inter-be with bacteria we wouldn’t be able to digest!
Once you fully acknowledge humans’ interbeing, your mindset changes. We are one, we can thrive once we open our eyes to our interconnectivity with the universe.
In the words of Thich Nhat Hanh: “Before me, there is the sun, the clouds and the rain, the single cell and the life-giving ecosystem”
This Week in Climate News:
🔌 Extreme temperatures in Tokyo are putting the Japanese power grid under strain.
🏞️ Scary drone footage reveals impact of the climate crisis on Europe’s rivers.
🦍 DRC to auction oil and gas permits in endangered gorilla habitat: Virunga National Park.
📈 Cool Trends:
🌞 The Solarpunk Movement
What if we collectively reimagined a wonderful future? Where technology improves social, economic and environmental sustianability? Welcome to the Solarpunk future.
Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a better future, building frameworks and strategies that can implemented right now to make that future a reality. It is constantly asking the question "what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?"
It began in the early 2000s as a literary and visual response to the dark dystopic world of cyberpunk. Instead, it puts forward images of renewable-powered futures that challenge us to alter our social habits.
“Solarpunk is a literary movement, a hashtag, a flag, and a statement of intent about the future we hope to create.”—Elvia Wilk, e-flux journal.
📰 International Intrigue
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“It’s like The Economist and Morning Brew had a baby. A real good-looking baby.” - Intrigue reader Helene
🔥The Mann Gulch Fire
Back in 1949, sixteen firefighters were sent to the Helena National Forest in Montana to fight a wildfire. Initially they approached it convinced that they had a river between them and the fire. Unfortunately, once they arrived to the location the fire had made it to the other side of the bank, this fire was extremely fast and the firefighters had about 1 minute to react.
13 out of the 16 firefighters perished, the Captain didn't. Why? He started an escape fire, burning the grass in front of him. The fire stopped right where he was, two firemen further uphill from him also survived.
Native Americans used to manage wildfires and steward the land with a similar tactic. They would intentionally ignite fires so that wildfires would reach the burnt areas and stop. The story of Mann Gulch has greatly influenced forest rangers understanding of wildfires, incentivizing the reemergence of Native American land stewardship.
💩 WTF? news
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching: Summer of Soul, documentary
🎧 What we’’re listening to: Cultivating Justice by Farmerama
👁 Profile of the week: @plumvillagefrance
🤯 Crazy fact we learnt this week: corals spawn once a year at the same time, following the moon cycle.