@BillySmith @derek @hydroponictrash Have you tried #appropedia , https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia ? ;)

@lex @MalthusJohn @valkyrie @phneutral

7. If you want to get into details, grant incentives for universities, spinoffs, startups to work on open projects and share them publicly, not only on some esoteric sub-page. https://crastina.se/ is doing some of this work, encouraging 3% of every grant to be spent on communication.

But seriously, it's not only startups that are innovative. We could get A LOT from universities contributing to #appropedia , #wikipedia , #OpenStreetMap and similar.

@MalthusJohn @lex those projects already exist, they're just not widespread!

https://www.appropedia.org/Recyclebot is an open source project from #appropedia , which also has a lot more materials on sustainability and appropriate technology.

@requiem I've been thinking about writing a Solarpunk story like that - "Want to know more about what characters are doing? here!"

In the meantime, Joshua Pearce made an illustrated novel like that to promote sustainability and open source solar panels: https://aditiandslick.tumblr.com/

In that youtube you also find the previous talk in that series from @emiliovelis, executive director of Appropedia, a wiki for sustainable projects. (Such a great resource!)

His topic: Share how you make = Documentation and Story telling, which is truly useful talk for any person working with knowledge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZ_b_ps_io

#WeAreGIG #CriticalMaking #Appropedia https://appropedia.org

@martijnreintjes did you know that @emiliovelis , the director of Appropedia is here on Mastodon?

We can make it a hashtag, #appropedia !

One of the biggest contributors, professor Joshua Pearce, wrote an illustrated #solarpunk story for kids: https://aditiandslick.tumblr.com/ and co-wrote https://www.appropedia.org/To_Catch_the_Sun book!

@LightHiker @ginevra I am actually the guy who is all about showing the existing solutions, especially from the Global South! At some point I created #solarpunkReporting to help inspire people with real ideas.

There are organizations like Global Innovation Gathering, networking hackers and activists from the Global South and helping them build sth.

There is #appropedia and a lot of similar projects.

We just dont hear about them in the mainstream.

@MistyPop to jest chyba nasza największa różnica w postrzeganiu tak Mastodona, jak i Solarpunka: ja sam widzę je jako ruchy, platformy, które mogę współtworzyć, ciągnąć w którąś stronę, nie tylko stać z boku i zauważać rzeczy na ich temat.

Mamy tu całkiem niezłą społeczność #solarpunk ową, która może powiedzieć Ci znacznie więcej niż kilka książek o których wspomniałeś w swojej recenzji - pokazać też aktywistów, praktyków, jak twórcy #appropedia i podobnych ruchów DIY :)

@JulianOliver @tomasino @SolarpunkPrompts the point is to write about real problems and solutions: refugee camps, #appropedia advocating tech that is just enough, #wikipedia ns saving the dying knowledge, militaries focusing on climate disaster help, Global South communities creating their own, local solutions. Lots of partial, dirty, but working ways forward.

Finding the beauty and dramatism in them.

Check a few episodes and share what you think

@mike_hales by the time I got to the end of the presentation I could definitely see why you propose that the P2P/ commons movement is the "third movement", it definitely represents a turn towards #CitizenResearch and #CitizenScience, just as much as it does a participatory approach to software development or design. #Wikipedia is the archetypal early example, but there are so many others, like #SourceWatch, #Appropedia, #PlantsForAFuture, even more rebellious sites like #Erowid.