====== Solarpunk Writing Resources ======

Writing aspirational fiction is hard. If you're trying to write a better world, you need to build actual, workable, solutions into your setting and that requires so much knowledge to do well. Descriptions in a single solarpunk scene on a pedestrianized city street could involve a mix of civil engineering, history, cultural knowledge, plant knowledge, city planning, accessibility outreach, mass transit vehicle design/infrastructure, and more. A whole story might add in permaculture practices, modern airship design and operation, phytoremediation, or all kinds of other stuff! Compare that to cyberpunk where there's both a sort of cultural familiarity to lean on, and a pass on bad ideas because you're writing in a dystopian setting, and the differences are pretty clear.

It's a lot for any one writer to try and take on. Luckily we don't have to work alone. Any future worth building is going to be pretty collaborative and consensus-driven, so it makes sense to build our depictions of it the same way. 

==== Writing Research ====

Writers often need a level of detail that's hard to find in publications - news articles and pop science stuff tends to be too broad and lacking in specific detail (or incorrect) while industry publications tend to go in-depth on a narrow slice of a topic, assuming the reader has the baseline knowledge to put it into context. Our goal here is to start a culture of packaging up and sharing writer-level research to make writing solarpunk easier. If you've recently researched something for your own projects, or you're just someone who's passionate about a solarpunk subject and wants to see it represented correctly in fiction, this wiki is intended to provide a centralized place where you can share it! 

If you have something you'd like to add, message the mods or post in the /c/writing community!

=== Library Economics ===
== Salvage ==

[[using_every_part_of_the_car|Using Every Part of the Car
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[[deconstruction|Deconstruction - salvaging entire buildings]]

=== Changing Transportation ===

[[nautical_solarpunk|Nautical Solarpunk]]

[[ropeways|Ropeways]]

=== Solarpunk Cities ===

[[how_cities_might_change|The Big List of Things to Include in Solarpunk Cities]]

[[reducing_light_pollution|Reducing light pollution]]

=== Rural Areas in the Solarpunk Transition ===

=== Winter Solarpunk ===

[[winter_greenhouses|Greenhouses in Cold Regions]]

[[road_salt|Road Salt]]

[[seasonal_roads|Seasonal Roads]]

=== Environmental Restoration ===

[[beaver_dam_analogs|Beaver Dam Analogs]]

=== Cool Technology ===

[[solar_concentrators|Solar Concentrators]]

=== Miscellaneous === 

[[solarpunk_in_fantasy_settings|Low Tech Solarpunk Ideas for a Fantasy Setting]]