the craziest part is between 2004-2013 solarpunk was a huge mainstream idea and concept for society going forward post y2k crisis, we were so very close but backed out for any number of reasons, I can only imagine how much better everything would have turned out if we stayed the course for a more eco conscious society utilizing nature and technology from energy collected from solar and hydro electric sources far more, quality of life would probably be far greater than it currently is and climate damage would be far less reducing the impact of climate change resulting in less drastic damages to the ecosystem, economic opportunities would have grown even more within the leap into what jobs and advancements we could have made in a solarpunk society. a future we almost had and seeing what we once developed keeps me hopeful maybe one day we'll pick it back up.
Hi! I am a visual artist and I am currently designing a solarpunk world and I'm deeply grateful for the video! I love dreaming of a better world and I hope to inspire others just as others inspired me (google translate)
I'll give you some tips. First is have no trees and have a sea of solar panels which stretch to the horizon. For your second scene have a dozen or so open cut mines with hundreds of large dump trucks hauling material. 3rd scene is a mile high mountain of discarded solar panels.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk It seems that you've gotten solarpunk confused with greenwashing in the neoliberal present. Solarpunk is a radical re-imagination of economic, political, and social systems toward both social community & sustainability.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk That is an over-exaggeration, houses have used solar since 70's at least for tax credits. We could never be a solar only world without retreating for more temperate climates and starting to harvest geothermal. There have been whole cities underground for a reason. It is possible. People did hide whole communities, Derinkuyu Underground city in Turkey for instance. Check it out. A conspiracy theory is such an underground city in the Grand Canyon where we are not allowed to go. One could question why people in beautiful climates like in equatorial zone even need oil or coal. They have longest daylight hours. At South Pole they use a bit of solar energy, my mom was the doctor a few over winters and described it to me. They were black interior boxes with a sheet of glass over it. I even made my own solar heater to heat a chicken coop a decade ago, spray painted soda cans with black barbeque grill paint. I cut bottom and top off of cans and stacked them as tubes, built a box for them and put a sheet of Plexi glass over. I took it down when I moved but found it was so hot the paint had melted. It likely needed a larger exhaust hole and a fan to help circulate. Even weatherstripping would make Northern homes more energy efficient. People are lazy and pigheaded and can't bother sealing their windows with caulk or installing a new rubber seal under their exterior doors so huge drafts blow in. I have offered my time to fix such homes, even volunteered buying the material, and had greedy fools say no. They like the air flow. But it wastes energy burned for heating and cooling. Meanwhile they claim to be poor and need assistance by government. If we backtrack to policies in the 70's, 1973 oil crisis, when more intelligent people were involved (before college degrees were handed out for purely attendance and not high grades and people started being roped more into jobs they were never unqualified for as a norm) a more viable solution to energy demands would have been met. There is no real oil shortage today so green energy is purely punitive attacks on the people and a tool to laundry money by which programs government spends our tax dollars on, their friends start-up scams. It is not a serious venture put on by the government and the government does not care about the people. We can implement solar and passive heating/energy and save so much more money than most people crying over costs. Every little step saves you money. My new home was built with lots of windows. I never turn lights on in summer expect storm days, and for days I will have no power due to a blizzard and it is still warm inside in winter even when below zero out as long as it is sunny. Soon as sun goes down it turns cold. Power is needed most for pumping water. Off grid does not work with greed, arrogance, and laziness that proliferates in cities. Modern life is about some people being extraordinarily wasteful and demanding others make sacrifices to accommodate their own excess, and they feel they are better people for telling/controlling others to do what they should be doing themselves. I believe those are traits of narcissistic personality disorder. No utopia could ever exist with them for long.
Reading Octavia Butler since the early 90's is the reason I've been obsessed with Solarpunk once the subculture finally received a name. Afrofuturism books are on another level of creativity. Thanks for the video. I agree with your takes, and appreciate your research and thoughtful presentation. I've always believed that a Solarpunk society was all too possible. The problem is that we have too many people with money and power addicted to more money and power. These are also the same people who don't see all manner of life as valuable. The world will never improve with these folks breathing the same air as us 😢
Butler's Afrofuturism, and that of many others - Jemisin, Okorafor, brown, etc. - is a HUGE influence for us. If we can't think differently about the future we don't have anything worthwhile to aim for.
@@HumanRestorationProject I agree. I wish all of us, from different races, cultures, and religions can one day unite under the same banner for that better future. Perhaps more TH-camrs and influencers should promote this idea. There's a start
Great video! I've been psychologically preparing for societal collapse since reading about peak oil around 2007, but I'm an eternal optimist, and when I discovered Solarpunk it lit me up. I'm writing a Solarpunk novel at the moment, and education is one of the things I've been thinking about a lot. I really like the way Starhawk's novels describe their learning pathways, and I also feel that time outside buildings in nature is important for all students (and people in general), so I like the idea of a curriculum that breaks down the 'silos' of different subjects and teaches more holistically... for example kids building raised garden beds could combine maths, carpentry, biology and even cooking, plus a sense of responsibility in terms of keeping plants alive until harvest time.
Massively love how intelligent and ambitious this video is. While not necessarily agreeing with every detail of the vision it is really inspiring to pose questions as to what else might be possible. Well done for making this and we hope you will make more such videos.
Thank you! At the very least we have to be able to use hope as a platform for action, we can always iron out the details, but there are no details without a positive vision of the future to strive for.
Wow this channels popularity is criminally low 😮You deserve so much more recognition and attention 👐 I love your way of thinking. I myself have always considered myself a doomer even though I want to believe that change is possible. Like you’ve said it’s much easier to envision the end of the world than it is to create a future we have yet to experience.
Thanks Felix! It's definitely and understandably a cycle ("it's so over", "we're back!") of feeling helpless and overwhelmed by the scope and magnitude of the problems, then recognizing how important and impactful small changes and solidarity actually are to achieving larger change. This is why we bring in adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy, recognizing that something as simple as a conversation can propagate into an entire movement for change. Can't lose sight of solidarity either. We're gonna need everyone working together, so everyone counts!
Love this. This gives me new power to go teach tomorrow. I currently work in a school that has been drained of all creativity and students just need to fall in line. I don't like to teach in that directive, topdown way that's being asked of me. Besides the fact that it doesn't fit me, it also clashes with my solarpunk ideals. since this is my first year as a teacher I struggle a lot to find my own ways and students abuse the freedom I try to give them. But now I want to keep trying Luckily, I'm going to a Montessori school next year, that aligns much better with those ideals: student ownership, inspiration amd collaboration. Hopefully I can learn a more horizontal teaching style then and really learn to inspire. Buuut, baby steps. For now, this video helps me to fight through the rest of the year.💪 especially the imagination story was really nice in that regard. Only a few more weeks to go...
I work in a school too, in a support role. I can watch how the teachers slowly have the ability to care crushed out of them as they realise their sole function is to maximise exam scores.
There is certainly a balance between taking our climate situation seriously and courting doomerism. We believe solarpunk helps us understand the best of humanity and work backwards to help get us there.
It's time to carve our own path based on consciousness, wisdom and realistic hope. Individual and common effort, committed to trouble shooting finding a balance between technology and a human approach towards our present, past and future. Namo Amida Butsu 🙏🏼⭕
In what depends of me and my wife, we are trying to study more about this and related things. Good to see @andrewism mention on this video, we love his videos
If you are a Socialist, you're doomed. If you're a Crony Capitalist, you're doomed. If, however, you choose to see a world of freedom and alternatives, you'll be fine
i believe, there shouldn't be "one" curriculum. rather school should offer a variety of courses and everyone can learn what interests them and dive as deep into it as they want. though there probably are things that are good to learn/experience, that one (a pupil) might not opt for voluntarily. no idea how to solve that, escpecially determining what unpleasant experiences and learnings are good for life and general education and which should be optional
Let me get some words that I thought about as you were describing the school system: you didn't really take any of the consumerist issues into account. Anything from papers and pencils do the furniture and especially the food we would serve at the schools cafeterias wouldn't be at all what we would have today. The Books in the gothic literature class would be likely browned and second hand, probably rugged and seldom new. The notes would be written on notepads, screens yellowed out for the protection of the student eyes and covered in scratches from the hundreds of students that it have alternated between. Furniture is of varying fabrics as they have been stiched and patched over and over again in order to cover stains and cracks. Wooden planks and armchairs, tables and chairs would be replaced per necessary. The whole aesthetic of the school would be incredibly rustique, almost like a big old cottage. The food served in the cafeteria would be from local farms, but limited by them as well. There would seldom be fresh meat and fish and if they did it would be a first come first serve. Main protein is likely to be lentils and chic peas or soy, carbs would depending on the region be a breed of potatoes and vegetables would be only what is available in season. The dishes would be a standard rather than a free of choice; a new recipe adapted to our more sustainable world, probably unlike anything we have today
Thank you for this video. Previously I couldn’t imagine having children and subjecting them to the same childhood I had, but this video gives me so much hope! Maybe education can be enjoyable and not torturous in the future
16:51 hypertext, from the 1960's. It's a librarian's dream, the actual upgrade from Gutenberg, inherently context sensitive & conversationally based. The side by side display of visually connected documents is what cannot be done on paper - quite different than a world wide webpage whose notion of linking isn't anything but an accelerated retrieval from the relevant library shelf. What is part of a modern cottage industry of literacy is that, when viewing a particular document, that you can see the conversations elsewhere which quote or otherwise excerpt passages from the work you're reading. This disrupts the prevailing broadcast organization of attention into self organized networks of conversations increasingly coordinating solidaritiously. No one will have a monopoly on the forefront of, as if there's a People's attempts to join a conversation will be adjacent. I see the selection forces as being for that which is inclusive and relevant. It gives the advantage to people who do the work of listening because there is a protocol for feedback
This was absolutely amazing! I found the ideas presented really interesting and relevant to my own life and what I've seen amongst my peers. But with that being said, it truly was the last 10 minutes that blew me away.
I LOVE IT! Write a novel. Or a series of novellas. I totally enjoy envisioning these types of ideas. I stopped watching videos that focus on war and destruction because sometimes I’ve caught myself cheering to kill the antagonist, which seemed appropriate until I realized that imagined emotions are understood by the brain as being just as true as being there. Recently Bought ebooks on the Solar punk movement - although I think it needs a better name because “punk” has negative connotations. I’ve recently been watching Solar Punk TH-cam videos, yours is by far the best. Nonetheless, Great information! Thank you.
So what do you think? Is this the educational environment you would have wanted for yourself or for your own children? What parts of this reimagination of school are worth building toward? How do we begin to get there? What part of the world can you influence to help get us there?
Fanatical Optimism !! If you don't want plastic in your water - don't buy plastics. easier said than done. then I planted my garden and got a used (free for taking it down and moving it) glass greenhouse and stopped buying stuff I don't need and raised my own egg layers, then poultry then ducks then turkeys then a couple hogs then milking goats yeah then built solar and a septic field and drilled a well and fixed up an old portable bandsaw mill to make boards from my own trees for a barn 3 decades on and still working on it. loving every minute of it.
A glint of optimism and light in a world shrowded in darkness and dystopian visions. A future to fight for when we no longer need to fight, not because of some final tottallitarian control, but because we have enough to live and enjoy our lives without taking from others
The school you describe sounds like heaven! And the thing is, none of that is not achievable. It's all within reach. Thank you for this wonderful vídeo
Some of the best teachers I’ve ever had were those that didn’t follow the curriculum to the word. My biology teacher in high school frequently set us up with hands on demonstrations and we created booklets filled with notes and images of these demonstrations/ labs all of the work we did was presented as “we’re doing this so we can discover this” she also did after school labs in case some students wanted to further explore different ideas or if we were struggling with certain concepts. When we did write test it was o we could figure out if we had learned the material, and if we hadn’t we would have discussions about it. The class average for unit test (these were mandated by the school) were often in the high 80s because the learning was more focused on discussions instead of memorization. I passed that class with a 94 percent (including the province mandated final). She was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had.
Great channel, will binge. Good shit. I plan on becming president or minister of education in my country, this really helps, as well as your sources. Greetings from the Netherlands and thank you for your optimism!
I really hope Gen Z (my generation) can make some actual meaningful change in my lifetime with how society works. We're hopefully starting to wake up and realizing that we can make a better future. Edit: 23:05 dawg get that sun out of here😭🙏‼️
I think people need to see more of the imagination part of your channel. And have resources available on other sites/channels. They can be shorter with recommended fiction for further understanding, until people begin to actually seek involvement. Start from where we are. This video is taking me from A to Z and right now I’m just at “G.” Nonetheless I subscribed:)
Thank you for this video, I really need stuff like that. I'm a nurse, and nihilism, stagnation in endemic in my profession and in Healthcare in general, as well as in educational field. Believe in a better future, having the immagination ad hope to first imagine and then be able to make action is essential, so important. So, thanks for your efforts
Commenting because this is a great video! But noticed the AI art included (aware or not) in this video and, I think it’s important to note it and also note that solarpunk art is uncommon and filled with AI in general. This is a call to action for us artists! We should draw more solarpunk art! Cmon, yall, we can help.
News from nowhere alsotook a stab at imagining a different education 'system ' in that it is entirely student driven there really aren't any formal classrooms. So it ends up being more like a trade system for people who want to pursue something specific
Good thinking. We're supplying ammo (substance) to the SolarPunk K-12 curriculum in the form a revamped Bucky math (aka Martian Math aka Verboten Math) -- more in my channel (it's not just about domes). BEAST.
I appreciate your approach here, love Solarpunk and we def need to practice imagination and hope! I do think the vision you present here is a bit limited by reliance on existing structures, such as the reliance on the state for federal regulation and enforcement of standards, and the assumption the path of X years of school followed by gatekept university applications. But I really like a lot of what you share :)
There's another thing I'd adjust in this vision. A big heavily resourced space such as this could act as a central hub that just some kids commute to some of the time to make use of specific opportunities, human contacts and resources. The daily educational needs of most kids of most ages can be better met in small local homelike gatherings
I'm a brazillian gen z and i do believe we could evolve our society to a harmonious state with nature, by connecting to indigenous ancestral knowledge for example could be helpful to contribute ENORMOUSLY to the solarpunk movement, the idea that ancestral knowledge is dismissive is a fallacy since it could provides us information and techniques of sustainable ecosystem maneuver, decomposed fish remainings for example are a potent fertilizer for plants that could be used for crops, and the construction method of taperas that protects houses from hot temperatures using clay and powdered minerals are one of the many techniques that allowed civilizations to thrive by the amazon rivers. If Northern Brazil had an intensive technological academy system we would be first ones to implement solarpunk in daily life.
Most of this, I love. I think the one thing that's still harder to imagine than the end of the world even in this vision, is how little students actually need classes and schedules. The conversation style free exploration to "class and curriculum" learning ratio, if you truly allow student autonomy, will vary enormously from student to student, but I confidently predict that it is a small minority of students who would use as much scheduling as you describe here. So, LOTS of space and time is needed for free emergent activity....
bro such a good video goosebumps al the way through, by making videos like this and gettting these mesages out there Is the start, the seed is planted now its up to us to grow n water it. I already belevied in a harmounious future but as an artist it was hard to visualize it, because of the vision of solorpunk I have an idea and a ethical goal for it aswell. by incoparting it in anything we can a harmounious future. we gotta be carefull that capitalism doesn't hyjack this movement and a s a designer you need to be held resposible. love what your doing keep it up
Nihilism is a freeing way of thinking for sure, but empty for sure. Life is like a film. It will end someday, but that doesn't mean we give up on trying to make it a good film. So I wish for you all to find some setpieces you like, find the best characters and don't forget to enjoy it all.
Disagree, especially taking into account absurdism. Nothing matters but you get to choose and fill your life with what matters to you; the opposite of empty.
as an american and a Gen z who is a socialist You did amazing on this video and gave me more info for my series I've been working on a sci fi that shows dystopia cyber punk compared to a more uytopia solar punk and showing that we can change. I can tell you capitalism is the cause of our worsing world, the cause of our loneilness, our society, threat of humanity, bad for our finite resource world, our lives etc so many don't understand how much capitalism impacts our lives! Socialism is a solution and democratic socialism is a wonderful hope for humanity. Plus socialism has been on the rise in the U.S.A. for many years now as so many are seeing that socialism isn't scary and that it's actually a big next step after capitalism! if you wanna le'arn more about socialism wa'tch the Ytber second thought for more!
24:30 Grades can be changed to pass/fail, you know/don't know. Formalization of academic performance is needed. We need confirmation that the curriculum has been mastered. 24:50 In the future, as cultures continue to converge, there will be no need to emphasize individual cultures, races, etc etc etc. We will all be one big planetary culture.
29:20 books are passive education. They will fade into the background. Education through video games will come to the forefront. Although video lectures will probably be the most popular.
Many classes can be online. A combination of freeschool and Montessori high schools. You don't have open classroom option of small short groups around tables in the same space with teachers on call
I am a big proponent and writer of solar punk fiction. You make good points here. Do you really think, however, that the best example of what a solarpunk high school literature class is reading would be gothic horror? That misses the mark. How about they are reading Visionary Fiction, or something?
Thank you for the video. I'm happy to see solarpunk gaining traction. Metamodernism has always seemed like a liminal philosophical state, instead of a movement, due to being defined by 'oscillations'. Although maybe there's a post-metamodernism? 😂Solarpunk is productive because it's looking forward. Media has done a thorough job of describing our extinction, but we need to stoke our collective imagination for a realistic, non-utopic future. I say non-utopic, becuase that's too easy to dismiss as fantasy. We need something that can compete with the realism of dystopia and extinction narratives.
Nicely done and very helpful since I am just not getting into this topic thanks to DamiLee, architect extrordinare. But, taking a break now to watch The Stand.
Thankfully I come from a fairly well to do neighborhood and we were able to choose some of our classes and time schedules. It was an open campus that did not imprison us to school property. I don't think this is the norm across the country. Additionally i was fortunate to take classes from the community college at the same time as going to high school. I feel like for the first time in my k-12 experience that i was fully engaged in school simply because i had some choice as to what i could learn.
Where might I find info about "organic restorative practices" in relation to disruptive behaviour? Is it similar to restorative justice concepts in the justice system?
What's interesting is that the "liberal arts college" model we imagine for Solarpunk High School in this vid is probably what a Solarpunk University would be based on as well! The principles largely stay the same: a commitment to democracy, sustainability, and accessibility built around community.
Love Love Love!!! Such a great presentation of concepts for positive social movement within the education system! It makes me reflect on my high school experience and the methods presented in this video were similar to my education at Providence Hall. From the socratic seminars in english and history classes, to creating your own research projects, I felt my education supported my individual growth and exploration. Lets go solarpunk!!!
4:00 No man, Solar Punk doesn't deny technology and industrialization. It denies capitalism, which uses these tools to the detriment of humanity. So there's no opposition between man and nature, there's an opposition between capitalism and humanity/nature. That's the reason why Miyazaki is not an ally of Solar Punk. All of his works are about the opposition between technology and progress and nature. I just a week ago watched all of his works from beginning to end to make sure that not once technology in his works has saved nature or animals, although in reality there are plenty of examples. Nature and animals in his works are always good, although in reality it is not always so, and man destroys them. The problem is that these technologies are in the hands of capitalists, corporations, and a minority of the population.
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME!!! YEAH! Such a great book, and it seems almost no one read it back in the day. I guess things weren't bad enough for people to take it and its future seriously. I'm glad (?) the time has come.
Oh my God is it harder to imagine an end to capitalism. I'm trying to do a solarpunk idea and while I am not someone who likes presenting pure utopias the solarpunk societies are trying their best to really change, but one of the things that was non-negotiable was that it had to not happen after a hard-reset apocalypse and it has to be post-capitalist and the closest thing I can think is that there is a required amount of raw GDP that has to be produced but they use automation, better educational practices, and syndicalized unions, and a robust system of accolades, recognition, and community awards based on progress. And even if the apocalypse is around the corner, apocalypse is only a revelation. The apocalypse is never the end.
I prefer atompunk, as in, most power produce by nuclear reactors, everything possible electrified, use trains and trolleys and whatever wherever possible, and fill up peak hours with a combination of renewables. also, for the few off the grid vehicles needed, use methanol produced via combining co2 in the air with water, using electricity from the nuclear plants during low power consumption times. There, everything fixed except for planes, and that can be mitigated by banning planes for anything but long distance flights.
i love this solarpunk education, but what stops all the students from becoming professional sports athlete, professional gamer, professional writers and professional artists. some of these are good, but what will they do after school if there isn't enough of these jobs for them. these jobs are already rare, highly sought after and underplayed. math might be more boring then reading Gothic horror, but its hard to build a house or write code with Dracula information. On the other side, if this is after all jobs has been taken over by AI and robots(the friendly solarpunk friendly kind) this could be a fulfilling life for humans after the removal of boring jobs. All that said, this was a very good video and very inspiring. hope to see some of these ideas implemented in my country.
Sudbury goes a bit further and more radical than your ideas tho, because it says there should be no formal structure around the students practice other than that which they create for themselves - no structured lessons at all, they are allowed and encouraged to be self-lead in their educational exploration, and the teacher becomes a facilitator of the childs learning to teach themselves whatever they wish to learn. its similar to the parable about teaching a man how to fish - if you show a child how to learn in the way that is most effective for them, everything else will follow quite naturally, like dominoes falling.
Oury consumerist culture have turned the average person into passive consuming cogs in the system. No system will work that doesn't allow humanity to be dynamic, producers. Humans are only happy when they are part of a dynamic community. To break this system people need to gather, visualize, create and grow their futures. Once we, in groups take back our agency, they system as we have had sold to us will begin to change, without the epic loss of life other systems seem to celebrate. Our school system has been consumerized as well. Forcing students to become consumers and cogs, devoid of agency in our lives.
17:00 No, people start acting because reality forces them to, not because they've just been inspired by someone to move. They'd love to do nothing, but life is getting worse. And if the government/corporations throw them a bone with meat on it, a great many will immediately forget about the struggle. The world is heading towards that very dark future. But the further away the less opportunity corporations have to throw a bone to the crowd, the angrier the crowd will become. So more people will be involved in the struggle. But that doesn't mean they'll fight the right way. And that's where you, for example, come in. You need someone to channel the rage of the crowd in the right direction, to show them who is really to blame. Otherwise, we will have a growing number of nationalists/nazis/religious obscurantists who will spend their energy fighting something that is not the cause of humanity's woes. We need to explain to them that it's about capitalism. It's about the Law of Falling Rates of Return. corporations get less money, they start overexploiting, competing with each other, there is less and less room for maneuver, everything that can be saved on is cut, i.e. social spending, labor safety, etc. People are starting to demand. Corporations begin to physically pressure workers, fascization begins. This is already happening all over the world.
16:20 That's a dangerous statement, man. You can talk about self-fulfilling prophecy when it's on the scale of an individual or a few people, but on the scale of humanity. That's subjective idealism and magical thinking. From a materialist perspective, consciousness/ideas are secondary to matter. I.e. our thoughts are just consequences of objective processes occurring in society, primarily economic determinism. I.e. if you think that everything will be bad in the future simply because we all think about sad things..... you're saying that our bleak present is also the result of people thinking about sad things in the past? I.e. it's not about capitalism, it's not about oligarchy, it's not about corporations..... it's just about thinking good thoughts and smiling. Are you sure that's what you're trying to say? Yes, you can't give up, but that's secondary. Should Jews and Slavs have thought more positively in the years leading up to WWII? Their own fault? I think you got it. ps. And no, materialism is not about the love of matter or the importance of matter. It is simply about the fact that first matter appeared, and then consciousness appeared, and matter is primary in relation to consciousness. In many philosophy textbooks you can find attempts to equate materialism with consumerism, which is propaganda. You can be a materialist but live in a forest/cave, or you can be an idealist and still be an executive of a large corporation. The best example is the Enron executives, about whom a great documentary was made (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005). The claims they made are subjective idealism. They were sure that they could overcome objective limitations solely by their ingenuity, strength of mind and positive attitude.
I would love this to be how schools work! unfortunately, it just doesn't seem realistic. Can you make a video on why it isn't or do you have one already?
Check out some of our "showcase" podcasts where we highlight schools doing work like this. Notably, Assumption College (AU) features student self-directed course options, flexible schedules, and hands-on learning.
I'm half-way through your video, but I have a question about 'the doom-loop'. You claim that it is a result of the modern capitalism culture. However, when we look at historical records we see that in every culture (or at least Indo-European cultures) there is an idea of 'the golden age'. The 4 Yugas. The neverending circle of ages (in Ovid, for example). I think that the idea of eschatology in an essential part of human psyche and not simply an ideology.
All species in the universe that existed, exist or will ever exist (including humans) share three mandates which I call my three “Ethical Laws of the Universe”: First, to create a sustainable world (that is ecologically-based and ecologically-constrained) that has greater health, resilience, diversity, capacity and productivity to sustain human life and it’s ecologically-based life support system - which I call the “means of subsistence”, than what was provided to them by their parents. Second, to propagate that human and Terran life throughout the Universe wherever alien life has not already done so. Third, to protect and defend all life (but, being Terrans, especially human and Terran life) from anything, be it hazardous phenomena or threats, whether originating from inside or outside, to the system. TO ensure humanities long-term survival, in order to receive funding and other resources, all human activities, including education OUGHT to be required to explicitly state how it will further these three overarching objectives. The requirements for sustainable human and ecological life are broad and extend far beyond food, water, and shelter, thus the means of fulfilling these mandates should be equally broad and inclusive. The point is to both draw attention to the purpose of life and the Ethics that underpin and sustain that life - this purpose being to create an ethical being. Liberty is the expression of free Will. It is the freedom to act responsibly and sustainably in accordance with our conscience to do the ethical thing. (This distinguishes it from simple hedonism - promoted by consumer capitalism, as the freedom to do whatever you want, regardless of the harm that this may cause to other humans or to the ecological commons.) Only the pursuit of liberty is ethical and sustainable, thus only the pursuit of liberty should be supported.
Im a gen z socialist american, and i approve of this is something i would wanna see in education, no longer using outdated things like grades, standardized testing, and more thats what i want. Finland is the closest thing to that!
There is a considerable school movement that has actively worked for over a hundred years across the world to build the best possible schooling system. You will find it if you search for it. Consider that starting from a tried and tested base may be better than 'back to the drawing board' type proposals. I think your proposal of how it would look will fall flat for the following reasons: - reliance on government for leadership and funding - belief that people are all inherently good but simply misguided - an atheistic, technocratic worldview
If this ever happens, i just hope its going to look like the environment design of Gattaca That may be biopunk, and not solarpunk, but, man, that movie is GORGEOUS!
I'm not trying to be mean, and I like that you are making these types of videos, but part of the problem I've seen with videos like this is that you talked about a lot of interesting things, but didn't give anyone solid advice for making any change themselves. A good start to fixing climate change would be for more people to go out and talk to some of the old hippies and people that society has labeled as "weird". They knew something was wrong with our world and actually went out there to try and create the change they talked about. They've built earthships, eco villages, underground houses, crazy solar powered contraptions, and "crazy" alternative lifestyles. I would recommend searching for "Tamera solar village" "earthships" or check out "Kirsten dirksen" her channel interviews different people living a wide variety of lifestyles.
Thank you for the recommendations! We'll check them out. Our TH-cam channel is only one wing of our greater project, which produces a ton of free resources for educators to build a better education system. Check out humanrestorationproject.org/resources
I feel like this vision needs a utopian version of the human species itself to function. I just don't have faith that people will behave as you predict under these circumstances. It is beautiful and alluring but I think we as a species would not be able to make such a system work with our current biological limitations.
Really cool video. 👍 This is my first time here. I did enjoy the format. The only thing that disturbed me were the AI-generated pictures, but hey! No one is perfect.
its hard to right a story with no antagonist a soler punk Futcher would be lacking in a villain vital for a story to be writing in it. with the backdrop as an integral l character. in cyber punk the world its set in is the antagonist... though one cold write a clash between a cyber punk cecity and a soler punk one
13:15 Education and capitalism are not separate systems. Capitalism is the base, education is the superstructure. They are not just connected, but there is a direct cause-and-effect relationship. You say that as if you could change one thing, but not the other.
As to the specifics of education, Schools should be designed to self-actualize students and produce ecologically literate and ethical citizens. Rather than being designed in accordance with Henry Ford’s model to produce more dependent workers and less independent and critical thinkers, they should be designed according to MY model to produce more independent and critical thinkers and LESS dependent workers. As part of their responsibility, teachers should act as content providers to build up an maintain a virtual library of knowledge content that students can select from. This will ultimately free up teachers from their current roles as teaching these standard courses to a much better role as coaches assisting students in HOW to self-learn, innovate and create new knowledge. They will act as mentors and coaches assisting students with similar interests to learn. All projects should be designed to fulfill my triple mandate of sustainable “Laws of the Universe” detailed in my earlier post. To receive a college degree, you must write a thesis or conduct a project that fulfills my sustainability laws, develop a feasible business plan to implement the idea in the society, community and ecologically-based and ecologically-constrained sustainable economy and the university business incubators should be repurposed to by fund and launch these new student led businesses.
Great video but one of solarpunk's key ideas is a lack of capitalism. The ending of your video talks about "paying teachers more" and "more educational funding" rather than moving away from those obsessive capitalist behaviors. A solarpunk society values education as much as clean water and air but has removed it from the capitalistic rail guards that value economic production over individual enrichment.
Totally! I think until that is achieved, until we stop valuing education through a capitalist lens, a way to begin to shift the value system, and toward the value of educators, is to raise teacher wages. Until we get to a point where it isn't important, ensuring material conditions IS important.
Look in to the schools of auroville. Where real people already try to live and educate in a human way. This is not a new idea and they already try living that way
Your use of AI imagery is antithetical to your message. If you aren't prepared to stand in solidarity with the artists and creative people who are needed to help envision a better future, then why are you making a video about solarpunk? I sincerely hope that you don't get defensive over this criticism, and instead use it as an opportunity to grow. Andrewism sets a great example for respecting and even collaborating with artists. You don't need a ton of flashy visuals to inspire people, a few well-chosen (and credited) images will suffice if what you have to say is compelling.
Hey, Nick from HRP here. All good points, honestly. We absolutely do pay artists for commissioned work and believe in compensating contributors for their time & labor (where many education orgs do not). Solidarity *is* the most important thing and we definitely realize the use of AI art can be a barrier to that. Since this video we've also used tools, like Shutterstock's image generator, that actually do compensate & provide royalties to artists. We're trying to be responsive & responsible in our use of these tools, thanks for helping keep our focus.
@@nickcovington8005 I'm glad to hear that this is something you care about and that you commission artists! Tbh solidarity rn looks like not using AI. None of the mainstream AI image generators are ethical. Shutterstock's one sounds better on the surface but what they did was create a competing platform in their own market which uses artists' work against them. TINY bi-annual 'compensation' payments aren't preferable to more users paying directly per original image. Worst of all, this wasn't implemented on an opt-in basis, and there was no warning so people only found out when it was too late to avoid being included in the dataset. Putting all that aside for a moment, I think the video serves as a really great intro to solarpunk and adjacent ideas for people who need to see how these things relate to their own lives :)
Got to say it stings a bit to listen to this at my tech art job to avoid doom spiraling and you use nothing but AI art to walk through the day of a student asking for more art in their curriculum.
Hey, Nick from HRP here. All good points, honestly. We absolutely do pay artists for commissioned work and believe in compensating contributors for their time & labor (where many education orgs do not). In fact, we are hiring a part-time staff artist next month. Solidarity is the most important thing and we definitely realize the use of AI art can be a barrier to that. Since this video we've stopped using tools like Midjourney. We're trying to be responsive & responsible in our use (or not) of these tools, thanks for helping keep our focus.
The only way built the future is the tear down the old education system until the new education system that supports free-thinking and awareness and compassion also we need a one party system just one political party not the Republicans or the Democrats party just a party with neutral and Centrist like ideas focus on progress innovation equality environmentalism a lot anti-corruption policies
Combine solarpunk immortal utopian society nature biodiversity wildlife environment ecosystems cities towns countries nations traditional modern past future renewable energy anachronism with immortality longevity ageless anti aging age reversal eternal youth magic modern peaceful setting and futuristic technology together ❤
Solarpunk exudes hope which we have not seen for decades. I love it.
the craziest part is between 2004-2013 solarpunk was a huge mainstream idea and concept for society going forward post y2k crisis, we were so very close but backed out for any number of reasons, I can only imagine how much better everything would have turned out if we stayed the course for a more eco conscious society utilizing nature and technology from energy collected from solar and hydro electric sources far more, quality of life would probably be far greater than it currently is and climate damage would be far less reducing the impact of climate change resulting in less drastic damages to the ecosystem, economic opportunities would have grown even more within the leap into what jobs and advancements we could have made in a solarpunk society. a future we almost had and seeing what we once developed keeps me hopeful maybe one day we'll pick it back up.
Hi! I am a visual artist and I am currently designing a solarpunk world and I'm deeply grateful for the video! I love dreaming of a better world and I hope to inspire others just as others inspired me (google translate)
Wishing you the best with your project!
I'll give you some tips. First is have no trees and have a sea of solar panels which stretch to the horizon. For your second scene have a dozen or so open cut mines with hundreds of large dump trucks hauling material. 3rd scene is a mile high mountain of discarded solar panels.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk It seems that you've gotten solarpunk confused with greenwashing in the neoliberal present. Solarpunk is a radical re-imagination of economic, political, and social systems toward both social community & sustainability.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk That is an over-exaggeration, houses have used solar since 70's at least for tax credits. We could never be a solar only world without retreating for more temperate climates and starting to harvest geothermal. There have been whole cities underground for a reason. It is possible. People did hide whole communities, Derinkuyu Underground city in Turkey for instance. Check it out. A conspiracy theory is such an underground city in the Grand Canyon where we are not allowed to go. One could question why people in beautiful climates like in equatorial zone even need oil or coal. They have longest daylight hours. At South Pole they use a bit of solar energy, my mom was the doctor a few over winters and described it to me. They were black interior boxes with a sheet of glass over it. I even made my own solar heater to heat a chicken coop a decade ago, spray painted soda cans with black barbeque grill paint. I cut bottom and top off of cans and stacked them as tubes, built a box for them and put a sheet of Plexi glass over. I took it down when I moved but found it was so hot the paint had melted. It likely needed a larger exhaust hole and a fan to help circulate. Even weatherstripping would make Northern homes more energy efficient. People are lazy and pigheaded and can't bother sealing their windows with caulk or installing a new rubber seal under their exterior doors so huge drafts blow in. I have offered my time to fix such homes, even volunteered buying the material, and had greedy fools say no. They like the air flow. But it wastes energy burned for heating and cooling. Meanwhile they claim to be poor and need assistance by government. If we backtrack to policies in the 70's, 1973 oil crisis, when more intelligent people were involved (before college degrees were handed out for purely attendance and not high grades and people started being roped more into jobs they were never unqualified for as a norm) a more viable solution to energy demands would have been met. There is no real oil shortage today so green energy is purely punitive attacks on the people and a tool to laundry money by which programs government spends our tax dollars on, their friends start-up scams. It is not a serious venture put on by the government and the government does not care about the people. We can implement solar and passive heating/energy and save so much more money than most people crying over costs. Every little step saves you money. My new home was built with lots of windows. I never turn lights on in summer expect storm days, and for days I will have no power due to a blizzard and it is still warm inside in winter even when below zero out as long as it is sunny. Soon as sun goes down it turns cold. Power is needed most for pumping water. Off grid does not work with greed, arrogance, and laziness that proliferates in cities. Modern life is about some people being extraordinarily wasteful and demanding others make sacrifices to accommodate their own excess, and they feel they are better people for telling/controlling others to do what they should be doing themselves. I believe those are traits of narcissistic personality disorder. No utopia could ever exist with them for long.
It's so crazy. I just began working on a project (on my own) to build an education system with solarpunk as part of the inspiration
Reading Octavia Butler since the early 90's is the reason I've been obsessed with Solarpunk once the subculture finally received a name. Afrofuturism books are on another level of creativity.
Thanks for the video. I agree with your takes, and appreciate your research and thoughtful presentation. I've always believed that a Solarpunk society was all too possible. The problem is that we have too many people with money and power addicted to more money and power. These are also the same people who don't see all manner of life as valuable. The world will never improve with these folks breathing the same air as us 😢
Butler's Afrofuturism, and that of many others - Jemisin, Okorafor, brown, etc. - is a HUGE influence for us. If we can't think differently about the future we don't have anything worthwhile to aim for.
@@HumanRestorationProject I agree. I wish all of us, from different races, cultures, and religions can one day unite under the same banner for that better future. Perhaps more TH-camrs and influencers should promote this idea. There's a start
Great video! I've been psychologically preparing for societal collapse since reading about peak oil around 2007, but I'm an eternal optimist, and when I discovered Solarpunk it lit me up. I'm writing a Solarpunk novel at the moment, and education is one of the things I've been thinking about a lot. I really like the way Starhawk's novels describe their learning pathways, and I also feel that time outside buildings in nature is important for all students (and people in general), so I like the idea of a curriculum that breaks down the 'silos' of different subjects and teaches more holistically... for example kids building raised garden beds could combine maths, carpentry, biology and even cooking, plus a sense of responsibility in terms of keeping plants alive until harvest time.
Massively love how intelligent and ambitious this video is. While not necessarily agreeing with every detail of the vision it is really inspiring to pose questions as to what else might be possible. Well done for making this and we hope you will make more such videos.
Thank you! At the very least we have to be able to use hope as a platform for action, we can always iron out the details, but there are no details without a positive vision of the future to strive for.
Wow this channels popularity is criminally low 😮You deserve so much more recognition and attention 👐 I love your way of thinking. I myself have always considered myself a doomer even though I want to believe that change is possible. Like you’ve said it’s much easier to envision the end of the world than it is to create a future we have yet to experience.
Thanks Felix! It's definitely and understandably a cycle ("it's so over", "we're back!") of feeling helpless and overwhelmed by the scope and magnitude of the problems, then recognizing how important and impactful small changes and solidarity actually are to achieving larger change. This is why we bring in adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy, recognizing that something as simple as a conversation can propagate into an entire movement for change. Can't lose sight of solidarity either. We're gonna need everyone working together, so everyone counts!
Love this. This gives me new power to go teach tomorrow. I currently work in a school that has been drained of all creativity and students just need to fall in line. I don't like to teach in that directive, topdown way that's being asked of me. Besides the fact that it doesn't fit me, it also clashes with my solarpunk ideals. since this is my first year as a teacher I struggle a lot to find my own ways and students abuse the freedom I try to give them. But now I want to keep trying
Luckily, I'm going to a Montessori school next year, that aligns much better with those ideals: student ownership, inspiration amd collaboration. Hopefully I can learn a more horizontal teaching style then and really learn to inspire. Buuut, baby steps.
For now, this video helps me to fight through the rest of the year.💪 especially the imagination story was really nice in that regard.
Only a few more weeks to go...
We hope your school year is off to a great start! Student ownership, inspiration, and collaboration all the way.
I work in a school too, in a support role. I can watch how the teachers slowly have the ability to care crushed out of them as they realise their sole function is to maximise exam scores.
*Excellent* Simply excellent & exactly what we need at this time to counteract The Fear, either real or imagined & everything in between. Thank you!
There is certainly a balance between taking our climate situation seriously and courting doomerism. We believe solarpunk helps us understand the best of humanity and work backwards to help get us there.
So what is it about the world that is worth preparing students for, and are we dedicated to the work of building that better world alongside them?
It's time to carve our own path based on consciousness, wisdom and realistic hope. Individual and common effort, committed to trouble shooting finding a balance between technology and a human approach towards our present, past and future. Namo Amida Butsu 🙏🏼⭕
In what depends of me and my wife, we are trying to study more about this and related things. Good to see @andrewism mention on this video, we love his videos
If you are a Socialist, you're doomed. If you're a Crony Capitalist, you're doomed. If, however, you choose to see a world of freedom and alternatives, you'll be fine
i believe, there shouldn't be "one" curriculum. rather school should offer a variety of courses and everyone can learn what interests them and dive as deep into it as they want. though there probably are things that are good to learn/experience, that one (a pupil) might not opt for voluntarily. no idea how to solve that, escpecially determining what unpleasant experiences and learnings are good for life and general education and which should be optional
Let me get some words that I thought about as you were describing the school system: you didn't really take any of the consumerist issues into account. Anything from papers and pencils do the furniture and especially the food we would serve at the schools cafeterias wouldn't be at all what we would have today. The Books in the gothic literature class would be likely browned and second hand, probably rugged and seldom new. The notes would be written on notepads, screens yellowed out for the protection of the student eyes and covered in scratches from the hundreds of students that it have alternated between. Furniture is of varying fabrics as they have been stiched and patched over and over again in order to cover stains and cracks. Wooden planks and armchairs, tables and chairs would be replaced per necessary. The whole aesthetic of the school would be incredibly rustique, almost like a big old cottage.
The food served in the cafeteria would be from local farms, but limited by them as well. There would seldom be fresh meat and fish and if they did it would be a first come first serve. Main protein is likely to be lentils and chic peas or soy, carbs would depending on the region be a breed of potatoes and vegetables would be only what is available in season. The dishes would be a standard rather than a free of choice; a new recipe adapted to our more sustainable world, probably unlike anything we have today
Thank you for this video. Previously I couldn’t imagine having children and subjecting them to the same childhood I had, but this video gives me so much hope! Maybe education can be enjoyable and not torturous in the future
Only if we work toward it will it become the future!
16:51 hypertext, from the 1960's. It's a librarian's dream, the actual upgrade from Gutenberg, inherently context sensitive & conversationally based. The side by side display of visually connected documents is what cannot be done on paper - quite different than a world wide webpage whose notion of linking isn't anything but an accelerated retrieval from the relevant library shelf. What is part of a modern cottage industry of literacy is that, when viewing a particular document, that you can see the conversations elsewhere which quote or otherwise excerpt passages from the work you're reading. This disrupts the prevailing broadcast organization of attention into self organized networks of conversations increasingly coordinating solidaritiously. No one will have a monopoly on the forefront of, as if there's a
People's attempts to join a conversation will be adjacent. I see the selection forces as being for that which is inclusive and relevant. It gives the advantage to people who do the work of listening because there is a protocol for feedback
This was absolutely amazing! I found the ideas presented really interesting and relevant to my own life and what I've seen amongst my peers. But with that being said, it truly was the last 10 minutes that blew me away.
I LOVE IT!
Write a novel. Or a series of novellas.
I totally enjoy envisioning these types of ideas.
I stopped watching videos that focus on war and destruction because sometimes I’ve caught myself cheering to kill the antagonist, which seemed appropriate until I realized that imagined emotions are understood by the brain as being just as true as being there.
Recently Bought ebooks on the Solar punk movement - although I think it needs a better name because “punk” has negative connotations.
I’ve recently been watching Solar Punk TH-cam videos, yours is by far the best.
Nonetheless, Great information! Thank you.
So what do you think? Is this the educational environment you would have wanted for yourself or for your own children? What parts of this reimagination of school are worth building toward? How do we begin to get there? What part of the world can you influence to help get us there?
Fanatical Optimism !!
If you don't want plastic in your water - don't buy plastics.
easier said than done.
then I planted my garden
and got a used (free for taking it down and moving it) glass greenhouse
and stopped buying stuff I don't need
and raised my own egg layers,
then poultry
then ducks
then turkeys
then a couple hogs
then milking goats
yeah then built solar
and a septic field
and drilled a well
and fixed up an old portable bandsaw mill to make boards from my own trees for a barn
3 decades on and still working on it. loving every minute of it.
A glint of optimism and light in a world shrowded in darkness and dystopian visions.
A future to fight for when we no longer need to fight, not because of some final tottallitarian control, but because we have enough to live and enjoy our lives without taking from others
The school you describe sounds like heaven!
And the thing is, none of that is not achievable. It's all within reach.
Thank you for this wonderful vídeo
Let’s go! (As the kids say)
We'll see you there! 🚀
Some of the best teachers I’ve ever had were those that didn’t follow the curriculum to the word. My biology teacher in high school frequently set us up with hands on demonstrations and we created booklets filled with notes and images of these demonstrations/ labs all of the work we did was presented as “we’re doing this so we can discover this” she also did after school labs in case some students wanted to further explore different ideas or if we were struggling with certain concepts. When we did write test it was o we could figure out if we had learned the material, and if we hadn’t we would have discussions about it. The class average for unit test (these were mandated by the school) were often in the high 80s because the learning was more focused on discussions instead of memorization. I passed that class with a 94 percent (including the province mandated final). She was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had.
I wasn’t expecting the last 10 minutes. A jewel!
Great channel, will binge. Good shit. I plan on becming president or minister of education in my country, this really helps, as well as your sources. Greetings from the Netherlands and thank you for your optimism!
I really hope Gen Z (my generation) can make some actual meaningful change in my lifetime with how society works. We're hopefully starting to wake up and realizing that we can make a better future.
Edit: 23:05 dawg get that sun out of here😭🙏‼️
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I think people need to see more of the imagination part of your channel. And have resources available on other sites/channels.
They can be shorter with recommended fiction for further understanding, until people begin to actually seek involvement.
Start from where we are. This video is taking me from A to Z and right now I’m just at “G.”
Nonetheless I subscribed:)
Thank you for this video, I really need stuff like that. I'm a nurse, and nihilism, stagnation in endemic in my profession and in Healthcare in general, as well as in educational field. Believe in a better future, having the immagination ad hope to first imagine and then be able to make action is essential, so important. So, thanks for your efforts
Commenting because this is a great video! But noticed the AI art included (aware or not) in this video and, I think it’s important to note it and also note that solarpunk art is uncommon and filled with AI in general. This is a call to action for us artists! We should draw more solarpunk art! Cmon, yall, we can help.
hell yeah!!!
News from nowhere alsotook a stab at imagining a different education 'system ' in that it is entirely student driven there really aren't any formal classrooms. So it ends up being more like a trade system for people who want to pursue something specific
Good thinking. We're supplying ammo (substance) to the SolarPunk K-12 curriculum in the form a revamped Bucky math (aka Martian Math aka Verboten Math) -- more in my channel (it's not just about domes). BEAST.
I appreciate your approach here, love Solarpunk and we def need to practice imagination and hope! I do think the vision you present here is a bit limited by reliance on existing structures, such as the reliance on the state for federal regulation and enforcement of standards, and the assumption the path of X years of school followed by gatekept university applications.
But I really like a lot of what you share :)
We are dust in the wind that can feel joy!
11:03 "we are all just little grains of sand on a seemingly infinite beach".
Maybe. But take out one grain and the beach is smaller already.
There's another thing I'd adjust in this vision. A big heavily resourced space such as this could act as a central hub that just some kids commute to some of the time to make use of specific opportunities, human contacts and resources. The daily educational needs of most kids of most ages can be better met in small local homelike gatherings
I'm a brazillian gen z and i do believe we could evolve our society to a harmonious state with nature, by connecting to indigenous ancestral knowledge for example could be helpful to contribute ENORMOUSLY to the solarpunk movement, the idea that ancestral knowledge is dismissive is a fallacy since it could provides us information and techniques of sustainable ecosystem maneuver, decomposed fish remainings for example are a potent fertilizer for plants that could be used for crops, and the construction method of taperas that protects houses from hot temperatures using clay and powdered minerals are one of the many techniques that allowed civilizations to thrive by the amazon rivers. If Northern Brazil had an intensive technological academy system we would be first ones to implement solarpunk in daily life.
I'm so glad there's a growing critical mass of people who are also tired of doomerism and escapism and just want pragmatic change.
What an inspiring video! Found myself writing down many quotes
Most of this, I love. I think the one thing that's still harder to imagine than the end of the world even in this vision, is how little students actually need classes and schedules. The conversation style free exploration to "class and curriculum" learning ratio, if you truly allow student autonomy, will vary enormously from student to student, but I confidently predict that it is a small minority of students who would use as much scheduling as you describe here. So, LOTS of space and time is needed for free emergent activity....
bro such a good video goosebumps al the way through, by making videos like this and gettting these mesages out there Is the start, the seed is planted now its up to us to grow n water it. I already belevied in a harmounious future but as an artist it was hard to visualize it, because of the vision of solorpunk I have an idea and a ethical goal for it aswell. by incoparting it in anything we can a harmounious future. we gotta be carefull that capitalism doesn't hyjack this movement and a s a designer you need to be held resposible. love what your doing keep it up
Thank you so much!
'Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.' - Bill Mollison
THANK YOU
i hope millions of people see this video. it's so good. it was really inspiring and got me thinking about a lot of things. Thank you very much
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nihilism is a freeing way of thinking for sure, but empty for sure. Life is like a film. It will end someday, but that doesn't mean we give up on trying to make it a good film. So I wish for you all to find some setpieces you like, find the best characters and don't forget to enjoy it all.
Disagree, especially taking into account absurdism. Nothing matters but you get to choose and fill your life with what matters to you; the opposite of empty.
@@ethancrowe280 yes thats what im trying to say! Choosing to see it like that instead of the "nothing matters so f it all" type of nihilism
Nice!
as an american and a Gen z who is a socialist You did amazing on this video and gave me more info for my series I've been working on a sci fi that shows dystopia cyber punk compared to a more uytopia solar punk and showing that we can change. I can tell you capitalism is the cause of our worsing world, the cause of our loneilness, our society, threat of humanity, bad for our finite resource world, our lives etc so many don't understand how much capitalism impacts our lives! Socialism is a solution and democratic socialism is a wonderful hope for humanity. Plus socialism has been on the rise in the U.S.A. for many years now as so many are seeing that socialism isn't scary and that it's actually a big next step after capitalism! if you wanna le'arn more about socialism wa'tch the Ytber second thought for more!
24:30 Grades can be changed to pass/fail, you know/don't know. Formalization of academic performance is needed. We need confirmation that the curriculum has been mastered.
24:50 In the future, as cultures continue to converge, there will be no need to emphasize individual cultures, races, etc etc etc. We will all be one big planetary culture.
29:20 books are passive education. They will fade into the background. Education through video games will come to the forefront. Although video lectures will probably be the most popular.
Many classes can be online. A combination of freeschool and Montessori high schools. You don't have open classroom option of small short groups around tables in the same space with teachers on call
Omg more of this, more of this! Lets keep imagining!
I am a big proponent and writer of solar punk fiction. You make good points here. Do you really think, however, that the best example of what a solarpunk high school literature class is reading would be gothic horror? That misses the mark. How about they are reading Visionary Fiction, or something?
We had considered what kids of the future might choose to read, thought it would be fun if they'd be interested in old stuff.
Thank you for the video. I'm happy to see solarpunk gaining traction. Metamodernism has always seemed like a liminal philosophical state, instead of a movement, due to being defined by 'oscillations'. Although maybe there's a post-metamodernism? 😂Solarpunk is productive because it's looking forward. Media has done a thorough job of describing our extinction, but we need to stoke our collective imagination for a realistic, non-utopic future. I say non-utopic, becuase that's too easy to dismiss as fantasy. We need something that can compete with the realism of dystopia and extinction narratives.
12:33 MOM ❤
Nicely done and very helpful since I am just not getting into this topic thanks to DamiLee, architect extrordinare. But, taking a break now to watch The Stand.
This seems super aligned to Villageschooling as a post-capitalist framework for education.
Thankfully I come from a fairly well to do neighborhood and we were able to choose some of our classes and time schedules. It was an open campus that did not imprison us to school property. I don't think this is the norm across the country. Additionally i was fortunate to take classes from the community college at the same time as going to high school. I feel like for the first time in my k-12 experience that i was fully engaged in school simply because i had some choice as to what i could learn.
Where might I find info about "organic restorative practices" in relation to disruptive behaviour? Is it similar to restorative justice concepts in the justice system?
Can we put HRP in charge of everything for a while? Please? I want this future.
I WANNA GO TO THAT HIGH SCHOOL SOOO BAD :(
I'd love to see your vision of a solarpunk university
What's interesting is that the "liberal arts college" model we imagine for Solarpunk High School in this vid is probably what a Solarpunk University would be based on as well! The principles largely stay the same: a commitment to democracy, sustainability, and accessibility built around community.
@@HumanRestorationProject I'm wondering what this would be like for stem education
Love Love Love!!! Such a great presentation of concepts for positive social movement within the education system! It makes me reflect on my high school experience and the methods presented in this video were similar to my education at Providence Hall. From the socratic seminars in english and history classes, to creating your own research projects, I felt my education supported my individual growth and exploration. Lets go solarpunk!!!
4:00 No man, Solar Punk doesn't deny technology and industrialization. It denies capitalism, which uses these tools to the detriment of humanity. So there's no opposition between man and nature, there's an opposition between capitalism and humanity/nature.
That's the reason why Miyazaki is not an ally of Solar Punk. All of his works are about the opposition between technology and progress and nature. I just a week ago watched all of his works from beginning to end to make sure that not once technology in his works has saved nature or animals, although in reality there are plenty of examples. Nature and animals in his works are always good, although in reality it is not always so, and man destroys them.
The problem is that these technologies are in the hands of capitalists, corporations, and a minority of the population.
totally agree
Hopefully it rendered right this time
Fixed it! Long story short: TH-cam for some reason processed the video but didn't show any errors. We reuploaded the same file...and it works! :)
an inoculation of our collective imagination‼️‼️‼️😮💨 goddamn.
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME!!! YEAH! Such a great book, and it seems almost no one read it back in the day. I guess things weren't bad enough for people to take it and its future seriously. I'm glad (?) the time has come.
I loved it then and now.
Oh my God is it harder to imagine an end to capitalism. I'm trying to do a solarpunk idea and while I am not someone who likes presenting pure utopias the solarpunk societies are trying their best to really change, but one of the things that was non-negotiable was that it had to not happen after a hard-reset apocalypse and it has to be post-capitalist and the closest thing I can think is that there is a required amount of raw GDP that has to be produced but they use automation, better educational practices, and syndicalized unions, and a robust system of accolades, recognition, and community awards based on progress.
And even if the apocalypse is around the corner, apocalypse is only a revelation. The apocalypse is never the end.
I prefer atompunk, as in, most power produce by nuclear reactors, everything possible electrified, use trains and trolleys and whatever wherever possible, and fill up peak hours with a combination of renewables.
also, for the few off the grid vehicles needed, use methanol produced via combining co2 in the air with water, using electricity from the nuclear plants during low power consumption times.
There, everything fixed except for planes, and that can be mitigated by banning planes for anything but long distance flights.
i love this solarpunk education, but what stops all the students from becoming professional sports athlete, professional gamer, professional writers and professional artists. some of these are good, but what will they do after school if there isn't enough of these jobs for them. these jobs are already rare, highly sought after and underplayed.
math might be more boring then reading Gothic horror, but its hard to build a house or write code with Dracula information.
On the other side, if this is after all jobs has been taken over by AI and robots(the friendly solarpunk friendly kind) this could be a fulfilling life for humans after the removal of boring jobs.
All that said, this was a very good video and very inspiring. hope to see some of these ideas implemented in my country.
24:53 well that's got personal vendetta all over it, if we're going that route the classroom itself is exclusionary to some learners
How often do l make jokes about chemistry? Periodically.
have y'all heard of Sudbury Education? its all of the things you talk about here and more :-)
Sudbury goes a bit further and more radical than your ideas tho, because it says there should be no formal structure around the students practice other than that which they create for themselves - no structured lessons at all, they are allowed and encouraged to be self-lead in their educational exploration, and the teacher becomes a facilitator of the childs learning to teach themselves whatever they wish to learn.
its similar to the parable about teaching a man how to fish - if you show a child how to learn in the way that is most effective for them, everything else will follow quite naturally, like dominoes falling.
Yes, totally! We have some Sudbury advocates in our network.
Oury consumerist culture have turned the average person into passive consuming cogs in the system.
No system will work that doesn't allow humanity to be dynamic, producers. Humans are only happy when they are part of a dynamic community.
To break this system people need to gather, visualize, create and grow their futures. Once we, in groups take back our agency, they system as we have had sold to us will begin to change, without the epic loss of life other systems seem to celebrate.
Our school system has been consumerized as well. Forcing students to become consumers and cogs, devoid of agency in our lives.
17:00 No, people start acting because reality forces them to, not because they've just been inspired by someone to move. They'd love to do nothing, but life is getting worse. And if the government/corporations throw them a bone with meat on it, a great many will immediately forget about the struggle. The world is heading towards that very dark future. But the further away the less opportunity corporations have to throw a bone to the crowd, the angrier the crowd will become. So more people will be involved in the struggle. But that doesn't mean they'll fight the right way. And that's where you, for example, come in. You need someone to channel the rage of the crowd in the right direction, to show them who is really to blame. Otherwise, we will have a growing number of nationalists/nazis/religious obscurantists who will spend their energy fighting something that is not the cause of humanity's woes. We need to explain to them that it's about capitalism.
It's about the Law of Falling Rates of Return.
corporations get less money, they start overexploiting, competing with each other, there is less and less room for maneuver, everything that can be saved on is cut, i.e. social spending, labor safety, etc. People are starting to demand. Corporations begin to physically pressure workers, fascization begins. This is already happening all over the world.
16:20 That's a dangerous statement, man. You can talk about self-fulfilling prophecy when it's on the scale of an individual or a few people, but on the scale of humanity. That's subjective idealism and magical thinking. From a materialist perspective, consciousness/ideas are secondary to matter. I.e. our thoughts are just consequences of objective processes occurring in society, primarily economic determinism.
I.e. if you think that everything will be bad in the future simply because we all think about sad things..... you're saying that our bleak present is also the result of people thinking about sad things in the past? I.e. it's not about capitalism, it's not about oligarchy, it's not about corporations..... it's just about thinking good thoughts and smiling. Are you sure that's what you're trying to say? Yes, you can't give up, but that's secondary.
Should Jews and Slavs have thought more positively in the years leading up to WWII? Their own fault? I think you got it.
ps. And no, materialism is not about the love of matter or the importance of matter. It is simply about the fact that first matter appeared, and then consciousness appeared, and matter is primary in relation to consciousness. In many philosophy textbooks you can find attempts to equate materialism with consumerism, which is propaganda.
You can be a materialist but live in a forest/cave, or you can be an idealist and still be an executive of a large corporation. The best example is the Enron executives, about whom a great documentary was made (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005). The claims they made are subjective idealism. They were sure that they could overcome objective limitations solely by their ingenuity, strength of mind and positive attitude.
I would love this to be how schools work! unfortunately, it just doesn't seem realistic. Can you make a video on why it isn't or do you have one already?
Check out some of our "showcase" podcasts where we highlight schools doing work like this. Notably, Assumption College (AU) features student self-directed course options, flexible schedules, and hands-on learning.
@@HumanRestorationProjectWhere can I find that? on your channel or do you have a link in your channel description?
You can find our podcast on any podcast player (Spotify, Apple Podcasts) or on our website under Inform. Cheers!
Also hierarchy of teachers over students is abolished and self directed learning is more emphasised
Where is the music from?
Chris produces these as originals! :)
I'm half-way through your video, but I have a question about 'the doom-loop'. You claim that it is a result of the modern capitalism culture. However, when we look at historical records we see that in every culture (or at least Indo-European cultures) there is an idea of 'the golden age'. The 4 Yugas. The neverending circle of ages (in Ovid, for example).
I think that the idea of eschatology in an essential part of human psyche and not simply an ideology.
All species in the universe that existed, exist or will ever exist (including humans) share three mandates which I call my three “Ethical Laws of the Universe”: First, to create a sustainable world (that is ecologically-based and ecologically-constrained) that has greater health, resilience, diversity, capacity and productivity to sustain human life and it’s ecologically-based life support system - which I call the “means of subsistence”, than what was provided to them by their parents. Second, to propagate that human and Terran life throughout the Universe wherever alien life has not already done so. Third, to protect and defend all life (but, being Terrans, especially human and Terran life) from anything, be it hazardous phenomena or threats, whether originating from inside or outside, to the system. TO ensure humanities long-term survival, in order to receive funding and other resources, all human activities, including education OUGHT to be required to explicitly state how it will further these three overarching objectives. The requirements for sustainable human and ecological life are broad and extend far beyond food, water, and shelter, thus the means of fulfilling these mandates should be equally broad and inclusive. The point is to both draw attention to the purpose of life and the Ethics that underpin and sustain that life - this purpose being to create an ethical being. Liberty is the expression of free Will. It is the freedom to act responsibly and sustainably in accordance with our conscience to do the ethical thing. (This distinguishes it from simple hedonism - promoted by consumer capitalism, as the freedom to do whatever you want, regardless of the harm that this may cause to other humans or to the ecological commons.) Only the pursuit of liberty is ethical and sustainable, thus only the pursuit of liberty should be supported.
Im a gen z socialist american, and i approve of this is something i would wanna see in education, no longer using outdated things like grades, standardized testing, and more thats what i want. Finland is the closest thing to that!
sometimes these fictional go so far from reality that people think its impossible to do it...solarpunk is going in that route
I am looking to install solar panels on my home 😸 wish me luck!
Solarpunk might just save me.
There is a considerable school movement that has actively worked for over a hundred years across the world to build the best possible schooling system. You will find it if you search for it. Consider that starting from a tried and tested base may be better than 'back to the drawing board' type proposals. I think your proposal of how it would look will fall flat for the following reasons:
- reliance on government for leadership and funding
- belief that people are all inherently good but simply misguided
- an atheistic, technocratic worldview
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It's the educational system that I want write the f*** now, instead of going through a master's or other postgraduate programs that exist today
If this ever happens, i just hope its going to look like the environment design of Gattaca
That may be biopunk, and not solarpunk, but, man, that movie is GORGEOUS!
Thank you!
I'm not trying to be mean, and I like that you are making these types of videos, but part of the problem I've seen with videos like this is that you talked about a lot of interesting things, but didn't give anyone solid advice for making any change themselves. A good start to fixing climate change would be for more people to go out and talk to some of the old hippies and people that society has labeled as "weird". They knew something was wrong with our world and actually went out there to try and create the change they talked about. They've built earthships, eco villages, underground houses, crazy solar powered contraptions, and "crazy" alternative lifestyles. I would recommend searching for "Tamera solar village" "earthships" or check out "Kirsten dirksen" her channel interviews different people living a wide variety of lifestyles.
Thank you for the recommendations! We'll check them out.
Our TH-cam channel is only one wing of our greater project, which produces a ton of free resources for educators to build a better education system. Check out humanrestorationproject.org/resources
I feel like this vision needs a utopian version of the human species itself to function. I just don't have faith that people will behave as you predict under these circumstances. It is beautiful and alluring but I think we as a species would not be able to make such a system work with our current biological limitations.
Really cool video. 👍
This is my first time here.
I did enjoy the format. The only thing that disturbed me were the AI-generated pictures, but hey! No one is perfect.
its hard to right a story with no antagonist a soler punk Futcher would be lacking in a villain vital for a story to be writing in it. with the backdrop as an integral l character. in cyber punk the world its set in is the antagonist... though one cold write a clash between a cyber punk cecity and a soler punk one
13:15 Education and capitalism are not separate systems. Capitalism is the base, education is the superstructure. They are not just connected, but there is a direct cause-and-effect relationship. You say that as if you could change one thing, but not the other.
we are always one generation away from being cavemen. thats how important archival information and the education to interpret it is
As to the specifics of education, Schools should be designed to self-actualize students and produce ecologically literate and ethical citizens. Rather than being designed in accordance with Henry Ford’s model to produce more dependent workers and less independent and critical thinkers, they should be designed according to MY model to produce more independent and critical thinkers and LESS dependent workers. As part of their responsibility, teachers should act as content providers to build up an maintain a virtual library of knowledge content that students can select from. This will ultimately free up teachers from their current roles as teaching these standard courses to a much better role as coaches assisting students in HOW to self-learn, innovate and create new knowledge. They will act as mentors and coaches assisting students with similar interests to learn. All projects should be designed to fulfill my triple mandate of sustainable “Laws of the Universe” detailed in my earlier post. To receive a college degree, you must write a thesis or conduct a project that fulfills my sustainability laws, develop a feasible business plan to implement the idea in the society, community and ecologically-based and ecologically-constrained sustainable economy and the university business incubators should be repurposed to by fund and launch these new student led businesses.
Great video but one of solarpunk's key ideas is a lack of capitalism. The ending of your video talks about "paying teachers more" and "more educational funding" rather than moving away from those obsessive capitalist behaviors. A solarpunk society values education as much as clean water and air but has removed it from the capitalistic rail guards that value economic production over individual enrichment.
Totally! I think until that is achieved, until we stop valuing education through a capitalist lens, a way to begin to shift the value system, and toward the value of educators, is to raise teacher wages. Until we get to a point where it isn't important, ensuring material conditions IS important.
Look in to the schools of auroville. Where real people already try to live and educate in a human way. This is not a new idea and they already try living that way
Your use of AI imagery is antithetical to your message. If you aren't prepared to stand in solidarity with the artists and creative people who are needed to help envision a better future, then why are you making a video about solarpunk?
I sincerely hope that you don't get defensive over this criticism, and instead use it as an opportunity to grow. Andrewism sets a great example for respecting and even collaborating with artists. You don't need a ton of flashy visuals to inspire people, a few well-chosen (and credited) images will suffice if what you have to say is compelling.
Hey, Nick from HRP here. All good points, honestly. We absolutely do pay artists for commissioned work and believe in compensating contributors for their time & labor (where many education orgs do not). Solidarity *is* the most important thing and we definitely realize the use of AI art can be a barrier to that. Since this video we've also used tools, like Shutterstock's image generator, that actually do compensate & provide royalties to artists. We're trying to be responsive & responsible in our use of these tools, thanks for helping keep our focus.
@@nickcovington8005 I'm glad to hear that this is something you care about and that you commission artists!
Tbh solidarity rn looks like not using AI. None of the mainstream AI image generators are ethical. Shutterstock's one sounds better on the surface but what they did was create a competing platform in their own market which uses artists' work against them. TINY bi-annual 'compensation' payments aren't preferable to more users paying directly per original image. Worst of all, this wasn't implemented on an opt-in basis, and there was no warning so people only found out when it was too late to avoid being included in the dataset.
Putting all that aside for a moment, I think the video serves as a really great intro to solarpunk and adjacent ideas for people who need to see how these things relate to their own lives :)
Have you heard of sudbury democratic school system?
Got to say it stings a bit to listen to this at my tech art job to avoid doom spiraling and you use nothing but AI art to walk through the day of a student asking for more art in their curriculum.
Hey, Nick from HRP here. All good points, honestly. We absolutely do pay artists for commissioned work and believe in compensating contributors for their time & labor (where many education orgs do not). In fact, we are hiring a part-time staff artist next month. Solidarity is the most important thing and we definitely realize the use of AI art can be a barrier to that. Since this video we've stopped using tools like Midjourney. We're trying to be responsive & responsible in our use (or not) of these tools, thanks for helping keep our focus.
The only way built the future is the tear down the old education system until the new education system that supports free-thinking and awareness and compassion also we need a one party system just one political party not the Republicans or the Democrats party just a party with neutral and Centrist like ideas focus on progress innovation equality environmentalism a lot anti-corruption policies
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