As I suspected, the majority (59%) believe that skyscrapers with green stuff on them were solarpunk. This isn’t largely true, but I think the main entry point is people enjoy imagining better cities.
I am trying to create solarpunk art with more practical options for verdant urban spaces.
I’m outlining my next solarpunk novel. Wish me luck (and endurance).
None of you caught it, but apparently AI stole art to make this image. My intention was to hire and fairly pay an illustrator. I sourced Nell Fallcard through Art Station, searching for mermaids, filtering out AI art. She met those criteria. However, I do see that recently she has used AI. Her bio's did not mention AI art, and on her recent pieces I saw that she had used blender, photoshop, and I was less familiar with AI apps and did not spot those. Reddit users voiced concerns that the art was stolen by AI. I hired an independent artist to look the piece over. She determined it was likely AI. To see her analysis, follow this link.
Even given her explanation, I find it unlikely I would be detect similar AI thefts. I will have to be more careful in hiring illustrators in future. My graphic designer also used AI art to make a back cover. I caught that and had him redo it. The front cover was not obvious to me. There are few things less solarpunk that stealing work from artists. I will not be publishing my novel with AI art, which means the release date for Missing Mermaid will be postponed. If you know illustrators who would be excited to work on a solarpunk piece featuring mermaids, do tell.
In my solarpunk novels, I wrote about a Climate Force, not knowing something similar already existed. Thanks for sharing.
Taking note for my writings. 💚
The eBook ISBN is 9798215802649. This is exciting. 💚
I used the Indie site Smashwords to publish, but if lulu is better for international orders I definitely will.
My first solarpunk novel releases today. You can discover Murder in the Tool Library at eBook retailers. For a paperback like I’m holding, you’ll have to wait until next week. (Barnes and Noble did me dirty.)
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme that burns the world. Tech bros froth at the idea of greenwashing their scam by saying it is solarpunk. No.
Systems that profit off the death of children must be dismantled. Governments complicit in genocide are illegitimate.
Original Photo: Belal Khaled
Children of the Al-Ghalban family were killed while playing in front of their house Saturday in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Systems that profit off the death of children must be dismantled. Governments complicit in genocide are illegitimate.
Photo: Belal Khaled Children of the Al-Ghalban family were killed while playing in front of their house Saturday in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Capitalism pays people top dollar to put on a badge and oppress their neighbors. What if instead of safeguarding inequality we prioritized protecting people from the ClimateCrisis. That’s what the American Climate Corps aims to do. What if instead of coercing citizens to become slave catchers to fill the prison-industrial complex we funded opportunity, paid teachers more, and started an #UBI to reduce the inequality and desperation that leads to crime. What if we put more money into prevention, rather than punishment, into mental health and fighting fires, into healthcare rather than driving people into bankruptcy. What if we guaranteed housing, took the speculation market out of living, so we didn’t have to force people onto the streets.
This is a year before the next presidential election. It’s important to be critical of lesser evils, to force them to work for you. Specifically, this week at APEC, Biden will likely make economic decisions that could cause decades of damage, exploiting oil and labor reserves in Asian countries. Now is the time to call him out and the system as a whole.
Thanks! 💚 You may recognize Rita Fei’s work from the Multispecies Cities anthology.
I’m dancing-on-photons happy to reveal the cover by Rita Fei for my upcoming solarpunk novel, Murder in the Tool Library. You can pre-order it on this site as well as on some more mainstream ones. The paperbook will be available on Barnes and Noble closer to the release date on Dec 8th.
See for local and remote actions: https://ilpsusinfo.wordpress.com/no2apec/
A government without the moral clarity to condemn genocide is not fit to govern.
I do not have much faith in motion sensors differentiating between animals and humans. Also, if they only turn on when your close, that might not help with perceived danger.