"ESA Announces Accessible Games Initiative to Provide Product Accessibility Feature Information" 
"With this initiative, participating video game companies will label their games with relevant "tags" from an approved set of 24, with the information appearing near the game's project information on digital storefronts and product pages."
Tractor Beam is about optimistic visions for life on this planet – we’re looking down at the soil not up at the stars for our hope for the future.
My story "What Really Happened in Nightshade" is available now in their first issue!
#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SciFiSaturday
https://www.tractorbeam.earth/story/what-really-happened-in-nightshade
Hey Leute,
im Einsatz für die #Energiewende gibt es eine #Petition beim Bundestag, die die Netzdienlichkeit der Kleinspeicher in den Blick nimmt. Das ist wirklich wichtig, wenn wir das mit der Energiewende hinbekommen wollen. Ich habe bereits unterschrieben!
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2025/_02/_13/Petition_177835.html
Für diejenigen, die mehr Hintergründe erfahren wollen empfehle ich dieses Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUId8JzRoZQ
@rycuda - Yeah indeed. SP at its heart is about hope, thinking about a better future and working towards that better future.
That's it. Simple.
Extrapolated out, you get to "use technology towards a specific goal and within sustainable and ethical constraints to address the needs of humanity" and "social justice for all".
Attempting to address both of those and how is where we're at right now.
So many have looked towards already established means, methods, and systems to see what we can use as is or slightly tweaked and many look towards new systems (or upgrated and updated systems).
One thing that I love, is it specifically DOES NOT attempt to create a "one size fits all" sort of monoculture. In fact, the opposite - decentralized and tailored to different populations, cultures, and environments is really important and core.
Heck even in farming monoculture is decried whereas guerilla gardening, decentralized home gardening, and food forests / permaculture reign as the desired methodology instead of massive corporate single crops, etc.
A wide diversity in approach and practice is the way.
So with that you'll have many different, sometimes competing, approaches and it still fits under the umbrella of #solarpunk.
#Solarpunk.
Hablemos del "trabajo"
Trabajar, HACIENDO QUÉ. Trabajar contribuyendo A QUÉ. Trabajar produciendo QUÉ. https://veedeo.org/videos/watch/cmuKiBnZAcVLgvo4SECTZH
People often think of #Solarpunk in terms of nature and degrowth (which isn't bad!), but data scientists rebuilding a public tool that was dismantled by the authorities? Punk af.
But the inevitable question arises: why is it harder to tell a story about this?
(I'll try to give my answer in the comment so I can let you think about it)
Need a hopeful story? 22 students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, 4 years ago, set out to "really inspire people and the market and society to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable future. What we’re trying to do is to show people and show companies what’s already possible.”
So they made a #solarpunk campervan fully equipped with living essentials including a double bed, sofa, kitchen area and a bathroom with a shower, sink and toilet. It can fit two people, who can drive, cook breakfast and watch television using just the vehicle’s solar-charged battery.
Then they took it on a tour of Europe driving 1,200 miles without stopping for fuel or plugging in to charge. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stella-vita-solar-campervan-netherlands-spc-intl/index.html
One thing fiction can do is show the fight isn't always (or even primarily) in the streets...
https://reckoning.press/its-in-the-blood/
#bookstadon #solarpunk #climatefiction #microplastics #revolution #shortstories @bookstodon @ReckoningMag
Is having solar panels #solarpunk on its own?
Is a community element a requirement? Does there have to be anticapitalist elements? Non exploitation/extractive?
The visual vibe is pretty strong and defined, there's colour, light, plants and life merged in with diverse communities, centered around common spaces.
I (personally) haven't seen as much work on defining the core ethos. (links to reading for me to do to correct that greatly appreciated)
Someone just gave me a heads-up about this site… Free heirloom seeds for starting your garden? 
https://freeheirloomseeds.org/
This seems like a really cool organization
0: "Do you have a grant writing person or a formal donation campaign?"
1: What would we use money for?
People pick up food and drop it off. They volunteer their time and gas/electricity/feet-movement and get some food out of it.
Do you... do you wanna pitch over a fiver for gas? That'd help! Or I just bought some bags to store some bread in from the bakery... I guess I could use 2 dollars to that end...
Wait... what are YOU using money for?
0: "Well.. we have to pay the guy who writes grants and organizes donation campaigns."
1: Huh...
Lol at talking to non-profits from a anarchist mutual aid standpoint.
0: "So... we're just not used to how you are doing things. It's very new and exciting! But I'm not sure if it's aligned with what we do."
1: "We're... we're doing the exact same thing.... and we're doing it in a normal way.... and an old way... what do you mean?"
0: "It's just... well... we're used to a top down non-profit approach where people write grant requests and get a lot of money and then... well I'm not sure what they do with the money... but you all are just, well, going out there and doing it. Without any money. Or formal organization."
1: "Yeah... alright... umm... So you wanna work together or not?"
0: "Frankly you scare us."
1: "Yeah, I get that a lot."
(Side note, we have a person who works in corporate consulting and can speak non-profit language really well... she has volunteered to have us shut up and only let her speak. We all think that's the best idea going forward."
ok y'all I'm TRYING... I publish my ebooks/print/audiobooks widely and I'm putting little notes to tell people that bookshop supports local bookstores, same with Libro.fm for audiobooks, that you can request your library carry my books on Libby... you can even walk into your local bookstore and order them.
BUT LORDT... look at all these links!
Now I have 50+ novels across 2 pennames... y'all... this will take a minute
but I'm TRYING
#solarpunk
https://susankayequinn.com/books/when-you-had-power
I have a new #solarpunk short story in the brand new magazine TRACTOR BEAM, and it's accompanied by some absolutely incredible artwork by Nina Muro!
"What Really Happened in Nightshade" is the story of a man who goes to visit a friend and ends up tangled in the political tensions between two very different styles of farms.
#ClimateFiction #ScienceFiction
https://www.tractorbeam.earth/story/what-really-happened-in-nightshade
This is so catastrophically bad.
I wrote a #solarpunk story warning about deep sea mining:
"A trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible."
FREE: https://susankayequinn.com/books/slimy-things-did-crawl
Happy Equinox! 
At the equinox, the sun rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west for everyone on Earth. The term “equinox” comes from the Latin words “aequus” (equal) and “nox” (night), reflecting the nearly equal length of daylight and darkness on this day.
If you are in the northern hemisphere, this equinox marks the beginning of spring.
https://www.britannica.com/science/equinox-astronomy https://bouqs.com/blog/spring-equinox/
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox.html
