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Solarpunk Notes
Solarpunk + regenerative design. Greens, oranges, optimism.
project-plan
Project Plan: A Courtyard Greenhouse from Salvaged Windows
A greenhouse built from old windows, in four phases, by whoever turns up. Our materials list, the order of work, and the questions we still need to answer.
energy
Planning a Shared Battery for Our Street
A shared battery in the old bike shed is still only a plan. What we're asking, who we've asked, and why we've decided not to put a single number on the table yet.
seeds
Learning to Save Seeds, One Bean at a Time
Our seed swap started with a shoebox and a bean nobody could name. A beginner's account of drying, labelling and passing on what grows well on our street.
tool-library
Inside a Neighbourhood Tool Library
Nobody needs a drill for more than twenty minutes a year. So we put forty of them on one shelf and let the street borrow. How our tool library runs, week to week.
rooftop
A Rooftop Garden, Step by Step
We turned a flat, empty roof into a working vegetable garden over one spring. Here is the order we did it in, and the two mistakes we'd happily have skipped.
repair
A Repair Café That Actually Works
Eighteen months into running a monthly repair café on Linden Row, here is what kept it alive: a good kettle, a sign-in sheet, and a rule about never fixing alone.