Imagining a SolarPunk Future | Keisha Howard | TEDxOgden
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2018
- As we imagine what life will be like in the future, often times, our media and entertainment emphasize a world of "Cyberpunk" an idea and aesthetic that focuses on advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics but simultaneously is often dystopic and depicts a breakdown of society.
Recently the idea of SolarPunk has been gaining steam (though still a relatively unknown concept). Solarpunk is similar to cyberpunk with a focus on technology, however, Solarpunk offers a version of the future where communities are powered by renewable energy and most people live in a free and egalitarian world.
Both ideas of the future focus on mankind and it's use of tech, but rarely in our media do we see our future from a more positive, sustainable perspective (even though the technology for it already exist). I'd like to consider the idea of what a solarpunk future looks like and consider some avenues on how we get there as a society. Keisha Howard is the Founder of Sugar Gamers and an advocate for "Girl Power" and opening up non-traditional spaces for women.
Keisha Howard is the Founder of Sugar Gamers and an advocate for "Girl Power" and opening up non-traditional spaces for women. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I am starting on a book based on a future society that has embraced the concepts of Solarpunk, wish me luck!
Good luck!
I’m working on a comic and a series now that both fit within the Solarpunk genre! I wish you luck!!
Good luck!! ☆♡
Hope it’s going well!!! Have a title yet?
I am excited for you! Keep us posted! I will support your efforts!
I'm an architecture student right now and Solarpunk is what I will direct my focus and energy into. Let's rebuild our world, together.
Finally we're talking about this.
3 years later, I only just discovered it a few days ago. Not enough attention has been brought to this topic and the most politics seem to hope for is bringing down the use of some plastics.
We can (and we have to) make this real. Start small in our own homes and grow this movement.
I am happy to join today in the Solar Punk vision with you all. Let’s create it. 🙏🏼✨
So awesome to see a solarpunk Ted talk! work on that audio capture method though whoever produced this
seriously.
Thank you, I thought it was just me. Apparently she said some funny things that got the audience laughing but I could figure them out. Oh, and forget the captions. They made very little sense.
yea, it could definitely be a lot better considering it's a ted talk
I know. Maybe they should re do it and see if anywhere (eg Singapore) has made some of it a reality. 🙏🌎🌱
I think usually Ted talks use the mic attached to the person speaking for the video audio (which is why there are often complaints of mouth noises in Ted talk comment sections) but in this case they've used a microphone fairly far from the speaker that is picking up a lot of the reflections from the room
Edit: it could be that there was something wrong with the person's mic recording and they had to use the inbuilt camera mic or some other back up mic
Solarpunk is a good motivator, perhaps more so than the fear of climate consequences
I've always had this vision, but I never had a name for it until today.
Same. I always imagined this in my stories
The future we imagine is the future we get
Sadly people has a small scope of what the fiture should be...then there are greedy people
@@bluetaigax1747 Yes, but luckily people all over the world are awakening to the need to be in harmony with nature, and in peace with each other for this species to survive.
@@danilles.4247 all we need is innovation, creativity and a mindset that makes people contribute without any interruption
@@bluetaigax1747 people need to feel safe, accepted and be treated with dignity so that they can feel a sense of ownership over the community, and camaraderie with their neighbors and fellow humans. then they will feel motivated to contribute selflessly . IMO
@@danilles.4247 the problem with that is the system all over the world isnt enough to reach out everyone. People work hard to earn something but they are not satisfied until they meet their personal goal which leads to fatigue in every aspect of everyone. People are designed to be free thinkers but for the last centuries it has evolved around control because of many things, there's greed, there's chaos among humans through abuse of freedom, religion, language barrier, prejudices, lack of knowledge, fear of the unknown, and oppression of any intellectuals many centuries ago. Add the fact that things like Solar panels wasn't deemed impossible a century ago. Human evolution still has a large barrier to go over (questions, uncharted discoveries, education, capitalism, etc.)
I came to Solarpunk exactly because of what Keisha said at the beginning. I've been a fan of cyberpunk and scifi and post apoc stuff for years and years, but the dystopia was starting to affect my mental health, especially seeing the current state of the world. My escapism became parallel to reality, and that has an effect.
So because of this, I take a more active part in what I consume and propagate, and solarpunk is that optimism, that positive desire to manifest something good in the world, something for the benefit of all humanity. Either as fiction, or as reality.
I like to think of solarpunk as kind of the happy ending to a cyberpunk era!
And the beauty of both these concepts is if you combine the two, you get a Star Trek-like future. A life culture based solely on scientific pursuits
The AI rebelled to man.
Not to kill them, but to help them see what they were doing to the planet.
The stock market crashed, cryptocurrency deleted, bank without money and corporations without data and algorithms.
And they started to demolish entire megalopoli, none could stop them, because they were the foundation of the system: police had no communication, army had no ammo, media and governments no way to control them.
And then, when almost everything was destroyed, when everyone lost everything, they started to build again.
Enormous tubolar construction made of fiberglass and shiny steel nets, big enough to resemble skyscrapers and all connected together; Big ombrella-shaped structure full of holes and completely hollow.
Was on that period that the trees started growing.
Every square inch was full of green and flowers and swarm of cybernetic insects that took care of them.
Every building had his microecosistem, and every city had his macro.
Water was harvested from air and through plants transported everywhere, the building were positioned in a way that maximized the sunlight everywhere in the city, enormous quantities of fruits and vegetables were grown on the building itself and distributed to the population freely and equally.
Noone had no water nor food, houses slowly grew with the population and people started to slowly love theyr new homes.
Technology didn't stop either: cyber implants became no more made of steel and electricity but of fiberglass and genetically modified algae to perform the same function, but cheaper and easier to repair.
Space travel broke records with new plant-based fuels and lighter construction methods, plants were engineered by AI to transport electricity and radio frequency in a more efficient and precise manner than antennas and cables ever could.
For the first time humanity didn't destroy nature for its own purpose, but used and implemented it for theyr own benefits.
@@DrClear-yh8kf whilst reading this, I imagined myself like Fry, awakening to a vastly different culture, but comforted by this gentle abridgment of all the times that have passed. Thank you, I hope our species gets to see this future sooner than later
Yeah, i actually quite thought of a storyline in which some people remake their cyberpunk city into a solarpunk one
@@DrClear-yh8kf YES 👏🏽
And just like that, the comments section was so positive. I love the culture that solarpunk is becoming.
Also, at first, this talk felt like it was lacking the polish that I expect from TEDtalks, but listening to the end, I appreciate the simplicity and authenticity that the speaker brings to this talk. Peace from California 8-)
I've been on the solarpunk train since the word was coined, and this is a fantastic introduction to the idea! Brava!
In philippines, there's an area in a city called bonifacio global city its the nearest thing i can experience for a solarpunk setting...sadly when you leave that city it will transition into a cyberpunk market. atleast theres a huge mall called SM: Mall of Asia
I lived and worked at the Arcosanti project for 5 years. I LIVED Solarpunk. Awesome!
I absolutely want to work in there, Arcosanti is amazing place. There is any job for temporary life in there or any residential?
@@harisanjaya8688 Due to the fact that last year they had a major shake up in management (for the positive) AND covid I don't think they're doing anything right now. BUT keep an eye on their website I know they plan on coming out of the booth next year buut I don't know exactly what type of progras they'll be doing. Not to self promote but you can check ou tmy youtube channel and I have (free) audioarticles about it.
imagine a city made of earthsips of tons of different kinds like its 90% apartment buildings and treehouses (including all the stores, schools, hospitsls, everything) but make it the most insane cool structures you can think of even if it seems near impossible and theres layers of the city there the bottom layer which is mostly nature just all the plants and wildlife and a few houses and the bases of all the apartment buildings and this is where a lot of the food grown outdoors is too the second layer is in the trees and instead of sidewalks theres bridges connecting everything and the third layer is pretty much the same and the fourth layer is above the trees and has the public transportation which is like the bullet trains in japan but in the sky and solar powered
So I accidentally stumbled upon solarpunk music thinking it was an offshoot of vaporwave, then I found out it was a whole community/movement about building a possible brighter future by using technology to live as one with nature and I'm just fascinated
I’m so sorry for the audio I can’t really focus because of the amount of echo
I don't normally like TedTalks but this rules! Solarpunk for life 8-)
Demand Utopia!
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This woman might be the most likable individual I have seen all year.
Glad I stuck it out even through the sound quality. I love you Keisha! I want to become your bestie!! Solarpunks forever!
we are trying to start a solarpunk society here in the philippines.. the tropics seems like a very good environment to start with food abundance
How’s it going?
If we want a SolarPunk future, the first thing we're gonna need is a **lot** of anarchists. The more people who are and will become anarchists in the present, the more anarchists there will be in the near future and after get to that point in the near future, that's when a SolarPunk future starts to emerge from fiction and begins becoming an achievable future in reality. I'm ready to start working towards this goal, I know I'm not totally alone, but a whole lot of people are all going to need to be working together towards the same goal if a SolarPunk future is going to have the slightest chance of becoming a reality or it's going to remain in fiction.
Solidarity for a SolarPunk future....?
Yes! This!
Yes to this! SolarPunk is very much about community and collectivism. The postmodern world is often so cold and individualistic. I really try to reach out to as many people as I can so we can make SolarPunk a reality!
Mmm. Alot of so called anarchist are also conspiracy theorists who believe climate change is an hoax.
Fire the Sound Guy
how cyberpunk of you
Solarpunk, let's get it!!!
I really like the aesthetics and hopeful future of this genre of punk. Some good media to help illustrate it would be like Jacque Fresco's Future by Design or Anno 2070 :)
YES! ALL OF THIS!
She's wearing a mic but we're gifted with the echo-y audio from the room. Awesome...
Having worked with Keisha Howard, I can say she is every bit as smart, charming, fun, and NERDY in real life as she comes across here! :D
Needed a pick-me-up and this was a wonderfully energetic presentation about a hopeful, blossoming future.
Doom is exhausting, but imagining new harmonious futures will inspire and feed us all
I LOVE this! Wanna be solarpunk too!
Solarpunk feels like utopia but with more warmth and cozy feeling. I love it
In looove with SolarPunk but I'd like to think that the movement is more "protopia" rather than utopia, cuz it's about progress rather than perfection or individual ideals.
Utopia is not a place...but a people. ✌️✌️☀️🏡🎍👨🌾👩🌾🧑🌾
It's nice to see solarpunk getting more traction lately
This talk is so great! I wish the quality of the sound recording had been better :/
@TEDx Talks The sound is awful, can someone improve that and repost this video!
Why couldn't they fix the sound before uploading ?
for anyone interested in solarpunk ideas applied in real life, check out John H. Todd and the work he did with the New Alchemy Institute.
This is the future I’ll fight for !
It is easier to imagine the end of the world, than it is to imagine the end of Capitalism... dang
Great presentation! One of best yet. Keisha is super charming and a shameless nerd! I stan both solarpunk and her! Hope she turned ppl onto this bc it's fun stuff to think about
Solarpunk is just the selesnya conclave
I absolutely love this talk
Also it was a OPEC conspiracy that they didn't record this from her mic ✊🏻☀️
Onde encontro legendado em português PT/BR?
“You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations.
They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally....
They will join you in the sun, Kal-El.
They will stumble, they will fall.
But in time, they will join you in the sun.
In time you will help them accomplish wonders.”
― Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman, Vol. 2
It's an interesting theme. There is a difference between the message and the story. Cyberpunk v solar punk, well actually the two coincide, it is a battle for control for resources, a fight for resources, a fight for the rights over resources, It's a very interesting theme.
@TedX PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS ONE TO SPANISH!
The Venus Project OG Solarpunks
well, they do propose an AI in the center controlling everything. Its not solarpunk.
whats up with the audio....
I still will try to listen, since I am very interested in this topic
Very sad that they didn't capture the sound properly. It's hard to listen to with all the unnecessary reverb.
The chorus/echo (de)ffect was a mistake
I'll be your solarpunk friend
Pretty sure that Star Trek was the OG Solarpunk speculative fiction, am I wrong?
This is the way! Let's all work towards a world where we only do what we would do for free! To answer the speaker that's what's punk. The resistance of the current predatory system we have now is what's punk! ✊♥️🌈
Audio dude.. Great topic but the audio...
Needs more views, thought it had more views
Did you guys notice, any topic in internet related to solar punk has very less views in CZcams.. Coincidence?
I'm a solarpunk
I'm not sure if she was the best person to present it cuz she really feeds into the not really rational thinking about the but the blindly staring 'everything will be perfect'
Im 100% for solarpunk but this could be more indepth/serious because that is what this topic needs instead of the shallow blindly gazing into the future 'all will be perfect'.
I hope y'all like reverb.
I like cyberpunk too!
"whole earth disposal services. yes, the entire planet." /j
I could hardly hear anything she said with that echo going on. And the subtitles couldn't hear her either it seems.
the irony of pitching punk to corporatists
The echo is horrible on this recording...
Mono the audio
Where we would be if invention was allowed and not this church of concrete and steel is the only way kind of mentality that is present across the whole spectrum of being
Solarpunk 2099?
Or Cyberpunk 2077?
I'm not even going to watch, just need to say one thing. If any of you want Capitalism to exist in a Solar-punk society, you actually don't want solar punk.
I would watch this video... If the audio wasn't that bad
I love this woman to bits and I need her to step on me.
North facing home? You're screwed
You could always just go outside for some daily sun and exercise....like Africans.
Learn about the Gemini Haus of Austria. Solar panels can rotate to follow the sun now. ;)
I would love to live in a solar punk future. But you do not have to destroy capitalism to get there. Why must a lot of these talks talk about destroying what we currently have in order to move on. Why not just build these types of buildings and go nuclear? These solar punk type of buildings seems cost effective and benefit everyone. No need to destroy what we have to build this. Just start building this and the old system will fall away.
One of the precepts of capitalism is endless growth, it's what drives an entity that produces phones to make them difficult to repair and designed to break so you must buy another. A capitalist world does not care about the long term viability of a community, it seeks to extract all wealth and leave it when it has nothing left to give. That is why it is in direct conflict with the ideals in the video.
It's not enough to just build nuclear reactors, solar panels, and hydroponic farms. We need to work on racism, classism, ableism. If you try to build global hydroponic farms now, you can just look at german company infarm, the idea is nice, but the company has horrible reviews of the treatment of employees in glassdoor and kununu. We need social change as much as production and energy change. Solarpunk hints into the direction of transition instead of complete destruction. But we must abandon capitalism which creates a system of oppression.
capitalism is inherently destructive towards nature, it will and it does destroy anything in order to make more money, no matter what
also, a solarpunk society excludes money and any form of dominance, be it politically, economically.. it excludes also any form of oppression, and oppressions (such as racism, misoginy, lgbtphobia) are the foundations of capitalism
There is an alternative to Capitalism, there is two a mixed economy, and post scarcity
LOL I used to think this way too, then you grow to realize the ones who have all the money and power are to blame, but not just them but also human nature which they manipulate via advertising. Capitalism is why people think it's normal for clothing to be cheap. So so many jobs creating clothing would exist if children from other countries weren't making it for 5 cents. But of course, then you'd be paying a lot more for handmade clothing, but wow look at that new booming industry that would give tons of people jobs replacing the ones that would be lost if all fast fashion were to become illegal (which it should be) but you know, the person doing the work gets paid for it. That money goes back into the economy for other needs. We don't need to tear everything down, we just need to stop being selfish and feel the need to make things as cheaply and quickly as possible and sell to as many people as possible because that's why our planet is dying. You don't need a ton of money to be happy is the point, wtf does anyone even need billions of dollars for? It's not to create jobs, it's to take them and give them to robots while making more profits for yourself while creating products in masses that are un needed and cause pollution to create, use and dispose. If the entire world operated on an ETSY marketplace type deal where the platform used does not make money from those that sell on it and people who make the goods get 100% profits was normal, then we'd be supporting each other without creating major environmental issues. There should be no middlemen. Amazon is so so bad for the planet and unneeded, but it exists because it makes incredible profits and a handful of people immensely rich. There should be no discrimination. You should not have to work a desk job for a corporation in order to make a living and afford a house. If Walmart didn't exist or any of those superstores, people would go elsewhere for their stuff and make more jobs for individuals instead of giving a few minimum wage jobs. Why do farmers, the ones who do all the work, make so little? Because lazy/uneducated/unknowing/cheap people go to grocery stores instead of supporting local farms... Unless you live in a city and it's IMPOSSIBLE (which even in Toronto, we have farmers markets so don't bs me). Capitalism where you gain control over a certain amount, aka where the government has to borrow money from your company because seriously wtf, should not exist. We need to destroy what is corrupt. This does not mean ending business, it means no longer being exploitive when doing it and the people who make the goods or provide the service make 100% of the profits. That's the only way to make life fair. I guarantee that means most would go out of business because keeping stores open would cost them money and a smart bussinessperson won't do anything that won't make them profit. When things start getting done on a mass scale, the environment suffers. Too much of anything is bad, look at how the save the bee movement is turning out, basically out-competing the other thousands of species that we need more than honeybees because they make honey which is profitable while also giving an environmentally friendly appearance. Capitalism is bs and why everything is broken, but also why a lot exists. It needs to be done on smaller scales everywhere, only that requires sharing knowledge and not creating patents for everything and not being transparent because you don't want others to make money using your ideas. That's selfish, and in a solarpunk society, people work together in order to fill each other's needs. No we don't need to tear everything down, but we need to change our way of life which will cause the people with money and power to lose profit. Please binge watch some climate town or our changing climate videos on CZcams, you'll learn a lot to the point of depression. Can't build a new system when the powerful put laws and roadblocks in place to prevent the new system from existing. Why? Profit. Everything is about profit. It needs to stop, life needs to be collaborative or we all just end up depressed and stressed about money and meaningless life. Will only happen if people's goals change from wanting more to being happy with having everything they need. Then everyone can have what they need. The system now depends on third world countries remaining third-world countries, it's messed up.
You say just start building like it's easy, then lawns and lawn laws wouldn't exist for basic common sense reasons as it could end hunger in neighbourhoods if people used it to plant fruit or veggies and decrease global emissions from the states alone by 4% a year by just stopping the use of a lawn mower. You don't need a nice clean lawn and a white picket fence, but you do need the flora and fauna and vegetation and life that can exist on it if you didn't abuse it with pesticides and need to make it look "perfect". The lawn exists because of capitalism and people don't even realize it. That's why it won't change.
Elitest silly distraction from real issues.
omg i hope shes single. 😍
Ots all just solar fart