Maybe a dumb question but how does funding from fossil fuel companies influence the research? Does it not just get sent to the college to use as they see fit?

I have family that will be moving to Maine shortly, hopefully I’ll get to see the positive impacts this has for the state.

I agree that remote work isn’t the end and that it helps to allow time and energy to be used for community-driven interaction. We won’t truly be at “an end” for solarpunk since we always want to keep making life better for everyone, so any opportunity we have to reduce our impact on the climate and work with the people around us is cause to celebrate if only a little.

I currently work at a place where I could do 90% of my job remotely, but because one department has to be in the building our director requires everyone to work on-site. I lose a lot of time that could be used for self improvement or forging social bonds just sitting at a desk waiting for a phone call. If I could work remotely, I feel like I’d have the time and energy to bike to a community garden and help grow food for people at the very least.

There is a solarpunk festival happening soon near me and there will be some job fair stuff as well. I’ll go and see if there’s something I can do that helps our planet as well as myself if I can. Any improvement is nice.

What other solarpunk technologies could this work well with? I’d imagine solar panels and greenhouses.

My spirit animal for today, hell maybe even the week

Bummer. There’s plenty of shops and restaurants and other services around me but a five lane stroad and a steep-ish hill in both directions is very intimidating.

Just read the article on making bikes more eco-friendly and there were some very good points being brought up. I wish I lived in a place that allowed for safe and reasonable bike commuting.

I have not, though I’m not expecting to need any serious amounts of data storage. I’d rather focus on availability and redundancy over raw storage so smaller and cheaper SAS drives would be ideal for my plans. Thanks for linking though!

I like that it has 2.5GB Ethernet ports but I dom’t have anything that goes faster that 1GB currently. Would love to fix that when I get some hardware for my supermicro chassis.

I’ve been looking at setting up OpnSense to replace my TP-Link router at some point but running it in a container. This looks like a decent alternative.