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Solar Punk
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Solarpunk is a genre of Speculative Fiction that focuses on craftsmanship, community, and technology powered by renewable energy, wrapped up in a coating of Art Nouveau blended with African and Asian aesthetics. It envisions a free and egalitarian world with a slight bend toward social anarchism. Standing as both a reaction to the nihilism of Cyberpunk and a solution to a lot of the problems we face in the world, Solar punk works look toward a brighter future ("solar") while deliberately subverting the systems that keep that brighter future from happening ("punk"). The genre was coined on Tumblr in 2014 when a single post swept bloggers into an excited frenzy. Other aspects of Solarpunk include a quasi-Utopian setting, usually 20 Minutes into the Future, with the occasional Crystal Spires and Togas and even sometimes Beast Men (Biologically/genetically engineered or not) to add weirdness or other unwanted proposed elements. Like the Tumblr community that fostered the genre, Solarpunk also tends to feature a high level of cultural awareness, gender equality, self-expression, and artfulness. Likely to combine lighter and more utopic versions of Biopunk, Oceanpunk and Skypunk themes, randomly set in the near/far future (rarely in the far past), with realistic (sci-)fantastic elements. Solarpunk works usually believe in Science Is Good, as the marriage of nature and technology is what leads to such a utopic setting. Perhaps as a consequence of this view of science, some Solar Punk works have begun to feature Fusion Power; by harnessing the power of the stars, fusion power allows Solar Punk to make the impossible possible in a clean and green way. Compare and contrast with Post-Cyberpunk, which saw the Cyberpunk movement and came to different conclusions. Post-Cyberpunk accepts the world we have and the systems that support it like corporate globalization, industrialization, and exploiting resources in slightly-less-bad ways. Meanwhile, Solar Punk aims to subvert those systems and replace them with ones that work better in the long-term through local communities, supporting artisans, and living sustainably. Like any budding genre, the number of works is still low; it's already been remarked that there's a lot more sci-fi classics retroactively labeled as Solar Punk than those which were consciously written to follow the trend. As far as we here at TVT are concerned, it's enough for the moment if they contain important Solar Punk elements. Let us leave genre distinction debates to others and feel free to add examples for either of these. A helpful intro to the whole concept can be found here. Solar punk fiction can include elements of mundane science fiction. For example, Nina Munteanu says that her solarpunk novel A Diary in the Age of Water includes elements of mundane science fiction to add the "gritty realism of “the mundane� to the story. Compare to Pastoral Science Fiction, Reclaimed by Nature. In some ways Solarpunk has looped back to a version of the Crystal Spires and Togas that Cyberpunk was originally rebelling against in the first place. |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog CD, traveling back to the past and destroying the robot generators found in the first two Zones of each Round will prevent the Bad Future where the environment is corrupted into a Polluted Wasteland. This leads to a new timeline where widespread technology works in harmony with nature to create a lush and vibrant Good Future devoid of Badniks. | |
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The cities and palaces in the forest part of the nation Sumeru in Genshin Impact is heavily solarpunk themed since the nation's main element is Dendro and the Forest Watchers' job in the nation is to protect Sumeru's forests. | |
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News from Nowhere by William Morris. A utopian novel from the late 19th century in which an author-insert character named William Guest travels to the year 2002 to find Britain transformed into a decentralised, egalitarian, and ecological paradise where the government has been turned into a dung market, people administer their communities through participatory democracy, war and poverty are distant memories, and even money no longer exists. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has some aspects of this, with the Magitek-heavy Cosy Catastrophe setting and feudal Japanese influences on much of the architecture, technology, and overall environment. | |
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In Obi-Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia's home planet of Alderaan is depicted in this manner, with lots of green spaces even in the cities, no visible pollution, and a peaceful society with no weapons. | |
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WinxClub: have some traits of this trope: most of the cities in the magical dimension seems to work like this thanks to their magitek with Linphea, Flora's kingdom, being a noticeable example (rather than have buildings covered in plants, they build houses in HUGE trees) | |
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Probably the best example and counterexample of this trope in Pokémon is in Sinnoh. Played Straight: First, you have Floaroma Town, a quaint breezy town in the middle of a flower meadow right next to a small wind farm. Then you also get Sunyshore City, which is a relatively-unindustrialized coastal city with massive two-storey roads built completely out of solar panels, which help power things like the city's lighthouse and the local Pokemon Gym. Averted, however, by Oreburgh Town, one of the first settlements you visit in the Sinnoh games, whose economy relies almost completely on coal mining operations, which is even maintained by the local Gym Leader. This is the natural antithesis to Solar Punk. However, given that it hosts the first Gym and Sunyshore has the last one, the game's progression gives off the impression of society evolving towards solarpunk. |
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In the Coreline story Coreline: Invasion of Portland, it's revealed that the city of Portland, Oregon in the Coreline universe was transformed by the Vanishing into a forest-like city. This was also done as a nod to the city's real life progressivism on environmental issues. | |
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Alpha Centauri predates Solar Punk, but their Gaian faction has strong elements of this. Instead of being reactionary Luddites, the Gaians embrace science and technology within their environmentalist ethics - their faction leader Lady Deidre is even an award-winning botanist/geneticist for her work in engineering new strains of useful plants. Their faction advantage of harnessing the alien wildlife is a fruit of their focused scientific research. What the Gaians reject is rampant capitalism and militarism. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The city state of Gridania and surrounding settlements of the Black Shroud follow this trope to the letter, from the natural looking Art Deco buildings blending into the hills, to the surrounding forest whose trees are so massive, light doesn't even pass through. Gridania's main source of energy is a group of massive waterwheels fed by the multiple rivers surrounding the city. However, the nation outright enforces this due to the rocky history that lies beneath the nation. The first Hyur and Elezen attempted to settle there, but were forced underground to escape the vengeance of the Elementals, who have the power to destroy the city. Gridania still exists in present day under agreement that they live strictly by the Elementals' word and eye. For example, while hunting for food is acceptable and profitable to the city due to its leatherworking industry, poaching is punishable by death. Specially attuned Hyur known as Padjal, a horned and ageless people, are speakers for the Elementals, keeping their wrath at bay while enforcing their orders to appease them. It's also notable that of the three main city states, Gridania is the one holding the line against the invasion of the expansionist and villainous Garlean Empire and their Magitek weapons. | |
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The people in the parallel world in Lighthouse: The Dark Being turned to this, after their ancestors' drive for industrial mastery turned the world into a Polluted Wasteland; This change allowed the planet to recover over time. | |
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As an Affectionate Parody of Pokémon below, Palworld takes place on an archipelago isolated from the rest of mankind with light industry, powered either through mundane renewable resources or mons, but also vast swaths of virtually untouched nature in between. However, for the sake of Black Comedy it takes the social anarchist tendencies of solarpunk to their natural conclusion by offering many opportunities to cruelly exploit your Pals for fun and profit. | |
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Black Panther (2018): Wakanda is an Afrofuturist paradise, thanks to its abundance of vibranium. The major conflict of the movie boils down to whether Wakanda should be doing more to share their resources and technology to help the world, which they ultimately opt to do. The design of Wakanda has many elements commonly seen in solarpunk, such as vertical gardens, renewable and nonpolluting energy in the form of vibranium, and high tech in naturalistic and simple forms .(Afrofuturism and Solarpunk as movements are quite friendly due to the mutual focus on better, more equal, and diverse futures and often share themes or outright crossover.) However, it differs from being completely solarpunk specifically in that Wakanda is a stratified society with monarchical government and a standing army, with leadership specifically determined (potentially) through acts of horrific violence. | |
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Princess Mononoke: A village in the throes of industrialization clashes with the forces of nature, but they ultimately learn to coexist? Sounds about right. | |
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Treasure Planet features a blend of Victorian and Art Nouveau styles with futuristic technology powered by solar sails. | |
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Big Hero 6 has some Solarpunk elements to it, being set in a high-tech, egalitarian version of San Francisco that blends American and Japanese architecture. Much of the technology is very Solarpunk in nature, emphasizing clean energy and societal improvement with things like flying wind-power generators or robotic nurses. The "subverting the system" part, however, gets some Deconstruction, as the Corrupt Corporate Exectutive turns out to actually just be a normal guy guilty of nothing more than foolishly rushing an experiment, and the protagonists are put on the wrong trail expressly because of their bias against him. Meanwhile, the real Big Bad is the sort of angry, anti-corporate rebel most Solarpunk stories would support, except that he rebels not from genuine moral outrage, but out of vengeful spite over the accidental loss of his daughter. | |
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Arcane: The Firelights' base is built around an enormous tree thriving in the depths of the city, a symbol of resilience in the dark of the underground and perhaps the only organic source of clean air in Zaun. Building joyful, technological communities intertwined with nature is at the heart of the aesthetics of Solarpunk, while the fact that their community focuses on art, mutual aid, and community defense against Silco and the encroaching shimmer epidemic speaks to the somewhat anarchistic social side of solar punk sensibilities. Between the glimmering Steampunk of Piltover and the grungy Biopunk of most of Zaun, the Firelights are a haven for those tired of exploitation by both sides. | |
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Zootopia is a subversion. The city of Zootopia itself appears to fit the aesthetic to Judy from the outside, with its beautiful architecture, sprawling design and districts environmentally controlled through advanced civil engineering. However, Judy discovers upon moving there that the city is actually just a standard city with a few green trappings, with a corrupt capitalistic democracy that systemically supports racial prejudice, stereotyping, and political corruption, in addition to a violent criminal underworld. It just doesn't look that way from the outside. | |
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The cities in Howl's Moving Castle, while not actually this (there are some Dark Secrets in the way) have design elements reminiscent of the genre. | |
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Castle in the Sky: The city of Laputa features hanging gardens and overgrowth that's reminiscent of the urban farming movement of today. | |
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Xenozoic Tales: The series is a predecessor to the genre, with a post-apocalyptic but pretty okay world and themes of balancing technology with nature, spirituality, and rebellion against political corruption. | |
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WALL•E: As the credits roll, we see that the newly-returned humans build a society that's a lot healthier for themselves and the world. | |
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The 1975 novel Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach is described on The Other Wiki as having "decentralized and renewable energy production and green building construction. The citizens are technologically creative, while remaining involved with and sensitive to nature. Thorough-going education reform is described, along with a highly localized system of universal medical care." | |
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At the end of The One, Gabe Law is sent to an idyllic world with a green civilization where he meets the dimensional counterpart of his wife, who had been killed earlier in the film. | |
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Freedom Project: The Earth has seen better days, but it's recovering quite well and most people there live fulfilling lives, learning to coexist with nature and facing their challenges with a smile. Much of the plot is driven by the spacer protagonist attempting to convince the archaic government of the Moon to embrace change and share their advanced technology with the people of Earth to rebuild society in a better form. | |
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The world of Pokémon is a society in which high tech gadgets and nature live in harmony, which predates the Tumblr post that spawned the concept. On the technological side, inventions include healing sprays to patch up wounds (Potions), smart devices (Rotom Phone and Xtransceiver), healing machines (Pokécenters), and handheld devices to comfortably transport large animals (Pokéballs). On the nature side, said animals are integrated perfectly into society, with many jobs employing their use or providing a service or good to them, and their natural habitat of untouched wilderness is a short jaunt away from any major town or city. Governments and large corporations are deemphasized, and in their stead, major figures are Gym Leaders, who each have a personal flair and style that suggests individuality and artisanship. And renewable forms of energy are the most common, as fossil fuels are seldom seen, society instead favoring riding Pokémon or bicycles to get everywhere. Probably the best example and counterexample of this trope in Pokémon is in Sinnoh. Played Straight: First, you have Floaroma Town, a quaint breezy town in the middle of a flower meadow right next to a small wind farm. Then you also get Sunyshore City, which is a relatively-unindustrialized coastal city with massive two-storey roads built completely out of solar panels, which help power things like the city's lighthouse and the local Pokemon Gym. Averted, however, by Oreburgh Town, one of the first settlements you visit in the Sinnoh games, whose economy relies almost completely on coal mining operations, which is even maintained by the local Gym Leader. This is the natural antithesis to Solar Punk. However, given that it hosts the first Gym and Sunyshore has the last one, the game's progression gives off the impression of society evolving towards solarpunk. While pollution exists in the setting, it's also somewhat mitigated by certain Pokemon who can consume garbage or smog such as Muk or the Galarian version of Weezing (the latter of which is capable of turning factory smog into clean air). |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command has Rhizome, a planet whose technology is based entirely around genetically engineered plants, which is their way of living in harmony with nature. Plus, their plants are sensitive to emotion. The happier you are, the better they work for you. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the plane of Kaladesh, where the technology is directly influenced by the wildlife. It helps that the technology is based on Aether,note Think clean-burning, ethically-sourced, Mana-based petroleum oil. which is a relatively green power source for its cities. On the City-Plane of Ravnica, both the Selesnya Conclave and Simic Combine use this aesthetic, blending nature with civilization, the former focused more on aesthetics and the latter more on bio-engineering. As of Neon Dynasty, the Japanese inspired setting of Kamigawa has progressed technologically to Cyberpunk levels. However, spirits and nature are respected and diplomats are actually used to negotiate the will of kami in regards to technology. |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Earth 838 has this aesthetic, with a much lighter and airier feel than the main Earth 616. This version of New York is full of buildings covered in growing plantlife with sidewalks that are wide and paved with grassy areas to walk on (although it still is capitalistic). This is likely a case of Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome. | |
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou combines this with Cosy Catastrophe. Humanity is declining into extinction and society has collapsed, but all the violence and noise associated with such an event has long passed, leaving a quiet, egalitarian countryside where advanced technology like Ridiculously Human Robots is used mostly for recreation, nature is reclaiming the land, and the dwindling population lives in peace and moderate comfort. | |
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Droners: Solar panels, holographic screens and remote-controlled drones coexist alongside wooden buildings, stone statues, boats made from giant conchs and wind turbines embedded into the scenery. Many characters show strong environmental concern and conflict regularly arises from the fact that some drone manufacturers do not care that they use polluting technology. | |
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Tales of the Questor has the Racconan homeland of Antillia. Most of their technology runs off lux, which is in turn generated using a hydro-generating plant. They also put a lot of emphasis on sustainability and stewardship of nature (emphasis is put on their programs to plant new trees to supplement what they cut down for wood, and they have extensive metal recycling programs due to the lack of mines in their territory). And on the "punk" side of "solarpunk", their culture is libertarian almost to the point of anarchism, and they are the only known democracy in the setting. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: From what little we have seen or heard from their home territory, T'au cities fit the bill down pat. Everything is clean, efficient and blends natural features with high technology and Oriental aesthetics (the T'au are Space Japanese). | |
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In Anno 2070, part of the AnnoDomini series, the Eden Initiative, or Ecos, are an environmentally-focused faction, and a more developed city built for them with look like this trope, in contrast to the more severe style of architecture favoured by their corpocratic rivals, the Global Trust. The Ecos favour wind and solar power, wood and glass architecture, and even seem to have a healthier diet and general lifestyle than the Trust. | |
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In the finale of Star Wars Rebels, the inhabitants of Lothal banish the Empire, which has been exploiting both the people and the planet for decades. After a seven-year Time Skip, it's shown that the planet has fully recovered and the capital is a Shining City with beautiful white towers and non-polluting technology, while art and spirituality (both suppressed under the Empire) are allowed to bloom. | |
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Lies of omission: While his parents want Peter to do research into ferrofluids to advance Aphelion's space-program, Peter wants to use it to help break down ocean-plastics, something Tony is perfectly willing to let him do in his company. | |
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Poptropica has Time Tangled Island, which involves averting a Bad Future and replacing it with this. | |
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Beasts of the Southern Wild: The film starts with a local teacher warning about global warming and the rising sea levels, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The people in the Bathtub refuse to let a levee ruin their way of life, so they break it down. Then the city government forcibly removes them from the Bathtub, so they rebel even more. The film is steeped in environmentalism, anti-authoritarian characters, but the Bathtub manages to retain a sense of happiness with their way of life. | |
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The Sandman (1989): In the first storyline of the Spin-Off The Dreaming, Cain and Abel visit various utopian realms including "Ecotopia", a high-tech world based on windmills and solar towers, and blending into the countryside. | |
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Devolution is set in Greenloop, a technologically advanced green commune in the Cascade Mountains that seeks to make this trope reality. However, the novel quickly proves to be a Deconstruction of the movement; the commune is too reliant on bleeding-edge technology, being totally dependent on the sort of industrial supply chains they claim to hate to practice their lifestyle. The inhabitants are mostly naive rich people and sheltered political activists with little to none of the wilderness experience it would take to actually live in harmony with nature, and are thus totally unprepared for its dangers, such as natural disasters or aggressive animals. | |
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Fisherman's Horizon in Final Fantasy VIII. Although the name invokes a rural fishing village, it is in fact made up of recycled and repurposed industrial equipment and the Mayor's House is located in the middle of a huge solar array. The citizens are engineers, even those that don't look the part. Although the main game portrays them as Obstructionist Pacifist people, an optional and easily missed sidequestnote requiring you to go down a hard-to-see ladder on the bridge to the town reveals they were once engineers from the highly advanced Esthar city that were disgusted by its use of their technology for war and thus left to found Fisherman's Horizon, fulfilling the "punk" part of "solarpunk." | |
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Porter Robinson's sophomore album, nurture, takes heavy music inspiration from this aesthetic, featuring a form of Indie Pop that combines aspects of glitchy Noise Pop with subtle, folk-inspired acoustic instruments. Much of the album's branding fuses futuristic elements with the warm, gentle ambience of nature, with the music video to "Musician" taking place in a very solarpunk-themed city, featuring robots, skyscrapers, and technology of varying generations intertwined with lush greenery and bright blue skies. | |
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Nnedi Okorafor's Zahrah the Windseeker takes place on Ginen, a City Planet where everything is made by plants, including technology and housing. Additionally, the planet is populated entirely by black African-appearing Human Aliens. | |
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The Monk And Robot duology by Becky Chambers was commissioned as a set of solarpunk novellas. It takes place on the moon Panga which was converted to a completely sustainable and pollution free environment in a period called "the Transition". All energy is wind, solar, or man-made, materials are made to either be recyclable or biodegradeable, a new economic system based on "pebs" ensures No Poverty and much of the moon has been rewilded. The Arc Words of the series are "What do humans need?" and how to answer that question in a post-scarcity society. | |
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