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writing:solarpunk_work [2026/05/09 12:34] – [Where to look for examples of solarpunk callings IRL] JacobCoffinWriteswriting:solarpunk_work [2026/05/09 12:44] (current) – [What Work Will Get Done?] JacobCoffinWrites
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 There's also a tremendous amount of work which should be done today, -- especially in environmentalism -- that just //isn't// done because it's not profitable or else it relies mainly on students, or other volunteers. Detecting industrial contamination, tracking and removing invasive species, work like this could easily qualify as a full-time solarpunk calling. There's also a tremendous amount of work which should be done today, -- especially in environmentalism -- that just //isn't// done because it's not profitable or else it relies mainly on students, or other volunteers. Detecting industrial contamination, tracking and removing invasive species, work like this could easily qualify as a full-time solarpunk calling.
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 +|  | Compensation as I'm using it here can be a pretty broad category. Money or the luxuries it would buy are perhaps the default to our way of thinking today. Commerce, indepent of capitalism is fine for many settings and can make for an easier understanding by the audience. If your setting is thoroughly post-scarcity, tokens of community acclaim are an interesting option. The book Murder in the Tool Library had a sort of augmented reality cyberspace overlay which most characters saw - and which was used to provide creative modifications/decorations to award people who made important contributions to their communities through their work. |
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 This could be taking a turn scrubbing down a communal kitchen or weeding a rooftop garden, shoveling snow off a sidewalk, or doing other maintenance tasks. Older folks who can't do the more physical tasks often help with childcare, food prep, fix things, or provide advice/supervision. This could be taking a turn scrubbing down a communal kitchen or weeding a rooftop garden, shoveling snow off a sidewalk, or doing other maintenance tasks. Older folks who can't do the more physical tasks often help with childcare, food prep, fix things, or provide advice/supervision.
  
-And again the boundaries with the other work listed above are fuzzy. In real life, picking up litter could be part of a job (for example, with a US state Department of Transportation, or a city Parks and Rec department), a community volunteer event (such as an earth day cleanup), a personal volunteer project, or even a chore (if, say, trash keeps blowing into your yard from the freeway). It's very likely you'd see a similar overlap in a solarpunk world. +And again the boundaries with the other work listed above are fuzzy. In real life, picking up litter could be part of a job (for example, with a US state Department of Transportation, or a city Parks and Rec department), a community volunteer event (such as an Earth Day cleanup), a personal volunteer project, or even a chore (if, say, trash keeps blowing into your yard from the freeway). It's very likely you'd see a similar overlap in a solarpunk world.
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-Money or the luxuries it would buy are perhaps the default to our way of thinking today. Commerce, indepent of capitalism is fine for many settings and can make for an easier understanding by the audience.  +
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-If your setting is thoroughly post-scarcity, tokens of community acclaim are an interesting option. The book Murder in the Tool Library had a sort of augmented reality cyberspace overlay which most characters saw - and which was used to provide creative modifications/decorations to award people who made important contributions to their communities through their work.  +