Organic gardening including composting

Shop the Co-Op and Farmer's Market - diet is mostly organic vegetarian

Ride Bikes

Drive an EV when needed + solar panels on the roof - It's like riding on sunshine!

I avoid un-neccessary travel.

Enjoy "The Great Outdoors"

Connect with my like minded community (getting off corporate social media is a piece of this)

I've just come across the term Solar Punk in the past year or so. A lot of SP has been what I've felt was the best way to live harmoniously on the Earth. I'm still learning, and hope to continue.

Where goblincore swamp and solarpunk forest meet, where the sacred grove is being tended, the bog creature has been up to this:

• Lots of DIY food production. This year I'm probably at 50% home grown and home raised.
• Continuous learning and improving to work low tech as well as low energy input (short transport paths, few step processes) around house and garden.
• Recycle and reuse. Got no money anyways, great chance to learn how to reuse everything. My furniture is punk as fuck, most is self-build or recovered. Sewing machine shall be my powerful ally for making new clothes out of old ones.
• Small, smaller, still smaller, and very quiet. I practice degrowth as a spiritual practice. I try to notice and to consider my many non-human neighbours and consciously try to keep a tiny footprint and to do a slow and steady work instead of big interventions.
• I used to be more active in community work, but it's not within my means and capabilities at the moment. Seeds I helped plant in the past are growing though, so that's not lost and I will pick it up again in the future.
• Returning to joyful creative work. My spirit of creating had been fucked over for years by the power of the algorithm and I am rediscovering my true roars and whispers.
• Remain open to new ideas out there and try to keep a bit updated about what the youngsters do and want and like, to not become a fossil.

I purchase as much of my produce as possible from a farm co-op

I try to walk for errands as much as possible rather than drive

I’m slowly learning basic electronics repair

I have a small hydroponic garden that just about meets my salad needs

• throw away trash you see wherever you go.
• splash fecies into double parked, idling vehicles.
• cement huge rocks to the ground to block the entrances and exits of gas stations
• have your dog shit on trad-lawns
• write a message in Trad-lawn by stomping a green message in the morning when the grass has frost
• plant wildflowers, weed, apples everywhere
• graft fruit tree branches into useless urban landscaping
• don’t rake in the fall

Is taking an electric bus to the native plant gardens to take care of them solarpunk?

I ride a bike to work, compost, recycle, repair wherever possible, have a small solar panel array and battery bank with plans to expand, and grow some food. I also have a semi-wild yard (there's some grass, but mostly it's clovers and edible stuff) and am pretty big on nature in general.

I do a lot more food related DIY stuff, like balcony gardening, food preservation (bought from local farmers directly), planning to grow mushrooms etc.

I already had a professionally installed solar system on my roof, but the capacity isn’t great (12 years old) and adding to it isn’t feasible. I do have a pergola over my backyard patio, so I bought 4 new (and large) panels, an off-grid inverter, and 5kWh battery. I put the panels on the pergola, ran wiring into the garage, and hooked up the inverter and battery in there. I then wired one of my level 1 chargers to the inverter. I use it to help charge my cars. I try to plug the charger in during the day as much as we can to charge the cars directly, but the 5 kWh server rack battery is there to soak up electrons when the cars are in use.

I thought about skipping the server rack battery for a cheaper setup, but it’s been worth it considering how often a car isn’t available to charge directly. It’s not integrated into the house circuits, so no permit needed.

My wife’s family has property out in the forest (Navajo reservation) with a house that doesn’t have running water or power, so we’re going to start fixing it up for her mom to live there (she recently retired) and will be setting up an off-grid power solution and water system soon. We’ll have to haul water from the nearest chapter house, but there’s a program to provide and install a 1200 gallon storage tank underground that we’ll use. Probably augment that with a rainwater catchment setup. Maybe even start raising sheep again, no one in her family has used their grazing rights for years, since her grandmother passed away. My wife spent many summers at that property. Used to be summer only due to the snow and dirt roads, but thanks to global warming, it’s a viable year-round housing site now.

Let's see...

• Ive got a bunch of small devices powered off USB battery banks that are solar rechargeable
• indoor and outdoor gardens, with sensors also powered by those little battery banks
• My kids do a bunch of sports throughout the year now, I bring my bike toolkit so I can help fixing bikes for the kids in their school that show up
• Sharing what we get from gardening with neighbors. Except potato. Potato is mine (seriously though, we go through them quick)

Nothing else I can think of off the top of my head

Electrification is a big topic. But you can always start with little things like changing to an electric mower instead of a gasoline powered one. Community work is also important, but I honestly don't know where to start...