We can’t deny it anymore: our infrastructure and technology have to harmonize with the natural elements of our planet. Otherwise, mother nature reacts in a not so motherly way, currently experienced as climate change.

Solarpunk is a new, emerging movement, defined by a positive eco-narrative and imagination of a harmonious and sustainable planet. For Solarpunks, infrastructure is a form of resistance. Progressive, sustainable technology meets optimistic environmental radicals. Is the Solarpunk way of tackling climate change cutting-edge? Yes and no.

Yes, because of the way they approach modern-day challenges; Solarpunks believe that there is indeed a way to solve these challenges, that we are not doomed to an apocalypse.

And no, because their approach isn't entirely new. The very essence of sustainable and efficient infrastructure has been around us all this time, in nature.