Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

It's a Christmas miracle! FF#1 has re-launched is now available in an e-reader friendly EPUB format and our new PDF format, along with some fresh cover art from @carlydraws.bsky.social! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/

A seasoned musher takes a wayward adolescent and the robot dog that's trailing him on a perilous journey across Alaska to troubleshoot a glitching solar reflection system. 🐕 🛷 ❄️ "Wheel Dog" written by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social is out now on Tractor Beam! www.tractorbeam.earth/story/wheel-...

Happy Winter Solstice soilpunks! 🌗❄️🕯️ Issue 4: THAW is here. You can read @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's guest editor letter at tractorbeam.earth. And subscribe to our Substack (link in bio) to get the first look at all the stories as they drop over the next few weeks! #scifi #thaw #tractorbeam

Really enjoying these government reprintings of the classics

As we recap the year in various ways Big stories- pretty bleak. But under all of them, stories of resilience, community, hope, and small changes that may yet germinate the solutions we need grist.org/climate/clim...

It’s my 2025 award-eligible stories! Featuring @reckoningmag.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @susankayequinn.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @morningtransport.bsky.social Links in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

I did have fun coming up with titles this year Links in thread

Two free stories from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES solarpunk collection: these stories are the warm light a lot of us need right now. Download the two stories FREE and if you like what you've read, get the full collection! newsletter.susankayequinn.com/v5y8e9o6w3 #booksky #hopepunk #climatechange

Interesting bit of research on ancient climate resilience

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Got a course development grant! Woohoo!

Maybe its time to branch out to other sifi, try As Many Ships as Stars by Weyodi Oldbear or something @weyodi.bsky.social

Do…do they not remember that this pronunciation was originally an insult used to imply Target was un-American amidst post-9/11 hyper-patriotism? It was the same reactionary wave that gave us freedom fries.

SMASHES PREORDER BUTTON for this collection from @tkrex.bsky.social www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/the-wildcraft-drones-by-tk-rex/

Yay my History of Utopian Literature course got approved! Now I have to…design it… Anyone who has taught on the subject before, I’d love to get your recs on articles etc #litsky #booksky #utopia #solarpunk #teaching

Hey I heard it’s irrelevant and underserved prize day! I just won gold medal in not hijacking other people’s conversations to talk about my own niche interests. And while we’re at it would you like to know about the early-century bridge construction? What did you win?

I only teach 20th-century US every now and then, and I’m realizing that when I teach it next fall it will be the first time since this became a popular meme… And I may not be prepared to deal with that

“Here’s what I’ve learned to keep me caring and remain positive and not become apathetic or fall into despair … Become curious and find something to love”

Semester wrapped but it’s all the times a student emailed you a question that was answered in the syllabus

Heliosail has gone into Late Pledge! This is an opportunity to snag a copy of the game if you missed the original campaign. We've also added a couple new adventures as add-ons, written by guest writers Dunadd and Adam C. gamefound.com/en/projects/... #TTRPG #SciFi #AdventureModule

A reminder that farm shares make excellent (& practical) gifts! A big obstacle for folks is simply understanding how CSAs work--a gift share for my family helped demystify farm share so they could see the benefits! Find local farm shares (CSAs) (& food co-ops!): www.localharvest.org/csa/

For those of us in the West with gardens, I planted this beautiful winter squash this year. I didn't get a HUGE harvest, because it was interplanted way too close with other things, but I roasted one last night and it was way beyond regular squash. store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/des...

With the FF Submitter's Survey last year, we found out oh-so-much about what stories work best for us at FF (www.fusionfragment.com/2024-submitt...) If you submitted to FF in 2025, fill out this year's survey here and let us GROW THE STATS!!! fusionfragment.aidaform.com/ff-submissio...

Hey who feels like starting the week with some solarpunk cowboy anarchism?

From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.

Just under 24 hours left for Heliosail!☀️⛵🪐🌱 We're trying to reach the first stretch goal before it ends! If you like art nouveau, pulp adventure, and way too many plants everywhere, this game is for you ;) #TTRPG #Solarpunk #SciFi #Pirates #IndieRPG #Kickstarter gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Checking in from Northern Colorado

Thank you to all who participated & perused our first ever #Hopepit!! May we all continue to illuminate paths in the darkness, when we can find light to share. Stay tuned for our next event, and keep creating hopeful content & vision to work for. 💛 🌱🌞

Thanks to everyone who joined us for #HopePit yesterday! And a special thanks to @arachnereid.bsky.social who did a lot of the leg work to make this happen. If you have any thoughts for next time, message me, @arachnereid.bsky.social @thestripedbananas.bsky.social or @hopepit.bsky.social Thanks!

My final pitch for the day! “All Roads Lead to Roam” my nomadpunk collection - transience as resilience - radical adaptability - wandering forests, roaming campervans, peripatetic mushroom vendors, people who move with the seasons and without permission #HopePit #solarpunk #querying #nomadpunk

#Hopepit Pitch/ Promote Post #2 Here's the Wildcards crew, a unit in the fight to return human rights and democracy to the former USA. www.oetearmann.com/personnel-page www.oetearmann.com/store #Hopepunk #CliFi #Solarpunk #resist

Hey #Hopepit! For pitch/ promote day I'm going to offer my extant work: the Aces High Jokers Wild series. This is one path out of corporate control and into a solarpunk future. Shenanigans, solidarity and good trouble all the way along. www.oetearmann.com/store #Hopepunk #CliFi #Solarpunk #resist

When chemist Erin Raincrow discovers her employer means to use her fertilizer formula to create chemical weapons, she runs away with the super soldier clone that came to kill her to a solarpunk PNW to finish her formula to save the world from starvation. #HopePit #WIP #A #Solarpunk

“Unbarbing of Wire” Shared-world collection in a solarpunk North American West - city-roving taco trucks - cussin’ cowboys - airship farms and the cats that stalk their gardens - borders? What borders? - quite a bit of giddyup if I do say so myself #HopePit #SF #Queryjng #CliFi #Solarpunk

THE SILENT is a Princess Mononoke-inspired eco-fantasy tale about human connection to nature and the power hidden in each of us to make a better world simply by being who we are truly meant to be. Nature Magic Slow-burn Romance Family lost / Family found Activist Protagonist #hopepit #ecofantasy

All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect. #Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F

I could teach a full seminar on why there should be more Colorado solarpunk but at the end of the day it’s just fun to see solarpunk visions of home

Nomadism…in space! Eco-sci-fi collection of stories about migration, wandering, and general transience through the great unknown. With: - space witches - rediscovering purpose through bicycling - screw these space colonizers And more! querying “True Stories of Cycling on Ceres” #hopepit #scifi

In a world where their faltering fertility ensues extinction, obeying orders has never been more vital. Or so the gods say. 🥀⚔️🪾🌲 A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x SERVANT OF EARTH. #HopePit #HopePunk #F #A #Q

Hope hides in a lush forest on Nariah IV, a planet colonized by a technocratic regime. Cowboy & Christa flee into the perilous woods seeking meaning & love. Rescued by an Afro-futurist group, they must use creativity & science to survive a harsh winter, or die trying. #OS #HopePit #Hopepunk #Novella

A few snippets from my nomadpunk collection! #HopePit #solarpunk #writersky

#Hopepit Art Share! A Solarpunk Family. Credit Kel Carter. Bao Li has three genetic parents. She's gene-spliced to balance out the health effects of sloppy genetic experiments done on her grandparents by a megacorporation, before the world FINALLY gave up on capitalism and focused on community.

The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions. Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress. grist.org/indigenous/t... #Tribes #Food #Indigenous #Farming

Art share day! Here’s some doodles for the nomadpunk collections I’m querying Show us some of your hopeful, human-made art too! #HopePit #Artshare #solarpunk #clifi #hopepunk

Each chapter of my novel is based on a major arcana tarot card, working through a heroine's journey. So, of course I had to make tarot chapter art with my characters & settings. This hermit card of my protagonist carrying light through the swamp is emblematic of her story. #Hopepit #tarotsky

Art share for #hopepit Tel's Solarpunk self-portrait #artshare #solarpunk #artsky #psychedelic

#hopepit Ten #ecofiction novels worth discussing ... climate-fiction.org/2021/09/21/t...

"Dirty hands, they can heal Fertile soil feeds your soil If you stand, you can grow" -Toni Hill A local Portland activist group for neighborhood climate resilience & local artists created this hopeful song about the power of communities growing & sharing food 💚🌱 #Hopepit #MusicChallenge #UrbanFarms

#MusicChallenge #musicsky: post a song that hits on the theme of hope, adaptation, and resilience #writersky: post a song that reminds you of your work, or inspires you #booksky: what is your favorite #hopepunk, #solarpunk, and/or #clifi book that you'd recommend? Use the tag #HopePit 💜