This has been percolating in my head for a minute... But here's the call for (more) black folks to get into Solarpunk Substack - open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl... Notion - eruditelijah.notion.site/Hey-Cuz-Sola... YouTube - youtu.be/CZmM_Qk4o1Q

Solarpunk IRL is so fckn dope. 🛖 Superadobe structures 🌽 Milpa farming systems ❤️‍🩹 Land healing 🪏 Communal gardening parties 🪵 Hugelkultur ⚒️ Tool libraries 💧 Water catchment systems And so much more This sht is real

Getting back to the videos. Trying to practice being concise with these ideas around Building Better Futures! Check it out and lemme know what y'all think: youtube.com/shorts/oVZFY...

THIS!! youtu.be/_o_AZqyh0eQ?... Please play more!! This is why I call myself a TechnoWizard, not just for the future, but because I like to remind myself to see magic in all the everyday things in the present! We have to believe in magic if we want to build a better world!

Ive been messing around with the idea of treating my productivity/life planning as an Ecosystem rather than something more strict. Embracing my inner chaos. I got around 30 different projects (activities) going rn. Sounds insane. It is. But it's quite fun, scary, and incredibly interesting.

There's a direct link between spanking children and fascism that runs straight through trauma bonding. This is why so many people can't imagine questioning authority, even when authority is actively harming them. 1/9

I BEEN BUILDING LIKE THEY PUT A LEGO IN MY HAND!!

Thank you Jill Scott And Willow And RecoeChi And NandoSTL And Apashe And Chase USA For making music that explores and embodies and expresses so very much.

Met some great creators today. It was very exciting and refreshing! Hearing their issues with the algorithm and other platform problems reinforced my desire to build alternatives. Not at all easy, but everything exists because they took down or came after behemoths people thought were unassailable.

Holy shit this is incredible!! Cory Doctorow don't miss pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/p...

Apologies yall, been starting off slow this year... at least in terms of publishing my work. I just been in the lab. Here's what to expect: - Building Better Futures series - Solarpunk short story - Podcast with my brother - Audiojournals & maybe videos/blogs - Land healing notes

We are republishing this recent statement by the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) to amplify the voices of movements on the ground. We will monitor the situation as it unfolds. interregnum.ghost.io/internationa... #VenezuelaInvasion #anarchism #politics #Trump #USImperialism

May as well finish this list for 2025! I usually review the last year and plan for the next, but I think I'm also going to add this documentation as a tradition too... I encourage others to do the same! Both to document your own journey, as well as to be a curator for the rest of us.

Part 4 of my Utopian Cities series is out! In this installment, I talk about solarpunk underground cities. (Also available on Notion if you dont like Substack: www.notion.so/eruditelijah...) open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl...

Absolutely fantastic essay on how and why to transition to a better, more organic education system open.substack.com/pub/anarcasp...

It's done!! Part 3 of my Utopian/Solarpunk Cities series. This one focuses on ecology cities! open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl... Also available on Notion if you don't like Substack: eruditelijah.notion.site/Ecological-E... Going to work on hosting my own site eventually, but using Notion for now.

Damn I knew deforestation was bad, but not this bad!! Truly awful that there's a whole logging Mafia willing to destroy that last bits of European forests (not to mention others around the world). Really hoping this works and folks help the cause! Real world Solarpunk! youtu.be/rYVGalSJz0k?...

Solarpunk is a literary, aesthetic and cultural genre that portrays an equitable society sustained by renewable energy and living in harmony with nature www.thenewworld.co.uk/sarah-housle... @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD to EVERYBODY YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY PISSED OFF YOUNG PEOPLE, about a "nomadic food forest planting" CO-OP MODEL or BUSINESS MODEL!!!! #agsky #co-op #greenjobs #smallbusiness #nomad #nomadic #tinyhome #tinyhouse #motorhome #campervan #camper #caravan #rv #rving #buslife #vanlife

Can't believe I'm just now finding out about this, but DAMN this some good shit! I need to be in community with more folks like this. Sorely missing in my life.

Tired… But still here. Jaded Forum is back. Thursday at 8 PM (EST). Subscribe to 400M on YouTube to catch the return: youtube.com/@400-Million

Great video that explains a lot of my own issues with Government under statism. This is exactly why and how corporations and politicians conspire to control and elevate themselves beyond the people. Lawd are tools of the ruling party and rarely ever are made to be fair or equally adhered to.

I want to do 'street interviews/workshops' but where I ask people what their idea of a better future looks like and work with them on how we could get there. I know it'll be more random than the workshops I've done. Still! What kinds of questions do y'all think I should ask? What ideas to share?

So excited for this! Even though this was largely written out of frustration initially, it has reinvigorated my desire to really champion this space more via worldbuilding, stories, and real world projects. Super grateful to all those who connected from my rant too!!

I'd like to take this time to spotlight some critiques I have of solarpunk that aren't just misunderstanding what it is. I think a big problem we have beyond the lack of popular media (which may be a blessing) is the lack of certain voices. There is quite a bit of diversity but we need more.

Not even asking for money. Just if someone who has good credit can cosign with me. Please let me know ASAP

We need stop letting it be so easy to be evil. open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl...

EMERGENCY!!! Hate asking this, but does anyone know any fast funding options for urgent, life-saving veterinary care? One of my cats has a urinary blockage (again). We didnt qualify for scratchpay or any of those services. (UGH)

Fighting really hard to believe in community still... I know we're all dealing with our own things .. but damn does it really have to be This hard to form and keep meaningful relationships?

The cost of furnace #installation would always be $0.00 in a resource based economy. But since I'm not in a resource based economy, I have to run a #GoFundMe. gofundme.com/f/safe-and-w... #gofundmecampaign #fundraising #crowdfunding #crowdfunds #funds #donations #charity #pleasehelp #pleaserepost

Behold! open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl...

BTW! I'm in Andrewism's Solarpunk Art Project!! www.youtube.com/live/Lhg8E3F... Also, I explain my Agronomic Tower further here: substack.com/@elijahclaud...

I need to give myself more credit. I keep saying that I don't read enough. That I don't do enough. That I'm stuck and not making enough progress towards my dreams. That I'm not enough. But I am. So I'm going to use this space to pat myself on the back a little bit to remind me of that...

TIS DONE! Was a real pain figuring out how to do this... and had to seriously downgrade from my original idea, but I've finished my submission for Andrewism's Solarpunk Art Collab. I hope it goes through!

Why are 3D tools soooo inaccessible?? Really wish I had the skills to make my own, sigh. Been spending way too much time just staring at my screen and fighting my computer trying to visualize what's in my head. Alas...

Fuck capitalism, fuck imperialism, fuck the US war machine, fuck colonialism, fuck Christofascism, fuck all of the intertwined systems of domination and oppression that have led us here.

I want to live in a world where no one gets bombed. I feel like that shouldn't be so much to ask.

youtube.com/watch?v=vePe... This is one of the best videos I've seen chronicling the Palestinian genocide. YouTube is set up to shadowban this stuff. Idk if BlueSky will too. But check it out for yourself instead of letting these algorithms decide what we should and shouldn't see.

Finally publishing the first installment of my Building Better Futures series!! I had to break it into parts so that I can put it out rather than endlessly refine and worry about the length. But I'm (more or less) happy with this! Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/elijahcl...

Technology is not neutral. It's not just a tool. It's a tool for a specific end. Technology has a purpose.. an intent.. a bias. Just because you don't know what that bias is doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means you're ignorant. We should be creating technology that is biased towards life.

There's soooo many things I want to work on, but I find myself struggling to prioritize things that depend on other people because I'm kind of burned out on taking the initiative. I don't want to have to herd cats, I have three already and I just let them come to me when they're ready.

Rapping is fun

BUILD OUR OWN FUCKING SYSTEMS! For the love of all that is good in the universe, we Absolutely need to learn to build our own communal, hyper local, self-sustainsble, and interoperable systems!!

Here's 11 Ideas for Transportation in Utopic Cities. Our cities are largely constrained by how we get around. The dependency on cars has a huge negative effect that causes urban sprawl, architectural devolution, and destruction of local neighborhoods.

Goodness, can't believe how absolutely draining this week has been! Not even all in a bad way. Had some great things happening... and some not so great things. But overall just a lot going on that has made it hard to retain or even replenish my energies. But... more ideas and stuff coming!

You know what I just realized? The whole idea that utopia would be 'boring' or unrealistic because of lack of conflict is stupid AF! Nothing about utopia implies we won't have the same everyday conflicts that are just a part of living life in a social environment: finding love, passion, and meaning

I believe we can eradicate poverty, hunger, racism, sexism, hierarchies, and even most kinds of violence. To me, utopia is not a conflict-free world, its one where we are no longer burdened with the same problems of our ancestors. Here are 10 better problems we could have with utopian cities: