Workshops
Community Action Workshops: Build Your SolarPunk Future
Join a SolarPunk Sangha workshop. Learn our framework for regenerative action, download our free workbook, and explore strategic actions for sustainability, spirituality, politics, economics, and culture.
🌕 What to Expect
Each workshop is a guided, collaborative session based on our unique framework. We move beyond doom and gloom to focus on actionable solutions and mutual support. You will:
It’s designed for both first-time participants and seasoned practitioners to structure their thinking and action. Inside you'll find:
Explanations of our core concepts: Circles of Sustainability, Game Theory, Mutual Aid, and more.
Guided exercises for personal reflection and systems thinking.
Worksheets for project planning and stakeholder mapping.
Lists of resources for deeper dives, reflection, and systems thinking.
🌕 How to run a Shop
Supporting documents to help facilitate and manage a workshop before, during, and after.
🎲 Strategic Action Catalogue
While in the workshop, you are deciding the type of action participants will collaborate over. We provide templates of Strategic Actions in our catalogue to help your workshop succeed. Check back for links to detailed guides for each Strategic Action in the future.
To turn genuine social unrest into a sterilized, branded spectacle that reinforces the status quo.
To resolve complex disputes (e.g., land use) by bringing all affected parties to the table as equals.
To create more representative outcomes and reduce negative campaigning.
To build a pipeline of diverse future leaders.
To end racially discriminatory outcomes and reduce mass incarceration, focusing on rehabilitation.
To legally recognize ecosystems as living entities with inherent rights, not merely as property to be exploited.
To provide accessible, non-adversarial, and restorative approaches to resolving conflict and harm.
To criminalize and financially cripple environmental and social justice organizations.
To legally commodify and claim ownership over community-generated data, turning social bonds into a resource.
To bring transparency to the influence of money and special interests on the political process.
To investigate and prosecute corruption at all levels of government free from political interference.
To encourage the exposure of wrongdoing by guaranteeing anonymity, job security, and legal protection.
To make public data and freedom of information requests prohibitively expensive for ordinary citizens and nonprofits.
To provide rapid, non-partisan verification of claims made by public officials.
To revitalize community-focused news reporting that holds local power structures accountable.
To equip citizens with the critical skills to identify misinformation and manipulated online content.
To eliminate foundational sources of non-partisan journalism and critical inquiry.
To dismiss visionary projects as "naive" or "utopian," lowering public morale and stifling momentum.
To keep the populace in a perpetual state of fear and outrage, preventing focused, long-term thinking.
To capture the community's attention at a critical moment (e.g., a key vote, a community crisis) with a trivial but emotionally charged spectacle.
To frame any regulation on consumption (e.g., plastic bans, energy efficiency standards) as an attack on personal liberty.
To create an official space for victims and perpetrators of historical injustice to share their experiences and be acknowledged.
To address historical wounds through cultural acts that affirm the dignity of affected groups.
To bridge empathy gaps and preserve cultural memory between different age groups.
To provide a non-police, health-focused response for mental health, addiction, and homelessness crises.
To create a mutual aid system for responding to climate-related disasters, independent of slow state apparatus.
To transform resource scarcity from a source of conflict into a basis for cooperation.
Deregulate via "Midnight Rule-Killing"
To purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and any training based on systems thinking or intercultural competence.
To reverse professionalization and install a patronage system in the civil service.
To neuter environmental and financial regulations from within by placing former corporate executives in key oversight roles.
To seize control of public infrastructure and decision-making by creating governance structures that are unaccountable to citizens.
To democratize city development decisions, prioritizing green spaces and community needs over corporate interests.
To embed creative, human-centered, and iterative problem-solving within government agencies.
To decentralize fiscal power and align public spending directly with community-identified priorities.
To codify in law and policy that an individual's primary role is to consume, not to participate in civic life.
Purge Federal Libraries and Databases
To shift material production from extractive industries to regenerative, biology-based manufacturing.
To relocalize the production of goods and create circular economies around local materials.
To democratize the means of production by creating freely available designs for essential tools and technology.
To reduce ownership of rarely used items and foster a culture of sharing over consumption.
To create a direct, resilient relationship between food producers and consumers, cutting out corporate intermediaries.
To fight planned obsolescence, reduce waste, and empower people with practical knowledge.
To co-opt the desire for change and redirect it into individualized, market-based consumption, fragmenting collective action.
To force corporations to internalize their externalities (e.g., pollution, carbon emissions) in their balance sheets.
To measure a company's performance based on its social and environmental justice, not just shareholder profit.
To create complementary economic systems that incentivize local trade and positive community actions.
Privatize Public Commons via "Asset Maximization"
To dismantle the infrastructure for preventative, community-based health and shift focus to individualized, pharmaceutical "solutions."
To enable communities to create their own ethical credit unions and lending circles.
To value all labor equally and foster a economy based on reciprocity and mutual aid.
To keep wealth circulating within a local bioregion, strengthening resilience against global financial shocks.
To actively incentivize wasteful consumption to prop up the extractive economy.
To collectively own and benefit from shared resources and technological advancements.
To remove land from the speculative market and ensure permanent housing affordability.
To discourage land speculation, capture value created by the community, and fund public goods.
To create a decentralized, resilient internet infrastructure that is owned by users, not telecom corporations.
To use technology for optimizing and fairly distributing community resources like energy, water, and transit.
To create repairable, upgradable, and customizable technology that serves users, not manufacturers.
To democratize the workplace and ensure that the value labor creates benefits the workers themselves.
To increase productivity and wellbeing while reducing energy consumption and environmental impact.
To guarantee access to life's essentials (housing, food, transport, healthcare) as a social right, reducing the coercive pressure of work.
To make pro-commons legislation so legally dense and complex that it is unintelligible to the public, allowing for hidden loopholes that benefit extractive industries.
To drive out experienced, non-partisan experts from government agencies.
To reclaim public space for free, shared cultural experiences that are accessible to all.
To foster creativity that directly challenges waste culture and demonstrates abundance through reuse.
To develop and play games (physical & digital) that are cooperative, teach systems thinking, and model SolarPunk principles.
To provide a constant, state-aligned alternative to critical journalism and complex narrative.
To preserve local history not in a single institution, but distributed and owned by the community itself.
To bridge memory and future-casting by transforming past struggles into hopeful future narratives.
To collectively imagine and design a desired future, making it a shared goal rather than a corporate or government mandate.
To paralyze local education with manufactured moral panics, preventing the teaching of systems thinking or regenerative values.
To ensure vital practical knowledge is passed on and not lost to outsourcing and professionalization.
To shift education from standardized curricula to self-directed, passion-based learning.
To cultivate critical thinking, deep listening, and collaborative inquiry into fundamental questions.
To create paralyzing doubt around clear evidence of ecological and social crisis.
To enforce ideological conformity in public institutions, particularly education.
To ensure the next generation is taught a worldview aligned with extraction and human dominance.
To create a gatekeeping body that delegitimizes peer-reviewed science which conflicts with necrocene goals.
To destroy trust and collapse mutual aid networks from within by sowing internal conflict.
To encourage citizens to report on each other for "unpatriotic" or "woke" behavior, fracturing community trust.
To entrench political power by dividing communities of interest and amplifying geographic polarization.
To visually represent the diverse identities, histories, and hopes of the community in public spaces.
To connect people across generational and cultural lines by valuing both practical knowledge and personal narrative.
To intentionally build social bonds and integrate new residents into the community fabric, preventing isolation.
To redistribute the labor of childcare across the community, liberating parents and integrating children into community life.
To co-locate childcare and elder care, facilitating meaningful connections between the very young and the very old.
To build a community culture rooted in explicit consent, communication, and respect beyond the gender binary.
To medicalize and pathologize the rational, evidence-based fear of ecological collapse.
To shift the blame for poor health from toxic environments and poverty to a lack of individual fortitude.
To carve out intentional spaces for solitude and mental restoration in the busy urban environment.
To address health as a holistic state of wellbeing within a community context, not just the absence of disease.
To allow healthcare providers to "prescribe" non-clinical community activities to address loneliness and improve health.
To break the taboo around mortality and discuss end-of-life wishes openly, leading to more dignified and less medicalized deaths.
To find common ground across different spiritual traditions through shared reverence for natural cycles.
To critically examine the role of technology in society and develop a shared ethic for its development and use.
To use a rigid, idealized version of the past to attack regenerative social structures (e.g., gender equality, restorative justice).
To generate hyperlocal, real-time air quality data owned by the community, not corporations or government.
To drastically reduce potable water waste by recycling water from showers and sinks for toilet flushing and garden irrigation.
To mitigate flooding and recharge aquifers by replacing impermeable surfaces with water-absorbing landscapes.
To create perennial, low-maintenance sources of free food in public parks and on common land.
To create a direct relationship between fishers and consumers, supporting sustainable fishing practices.
To reconnect people to existing food sources in their environment and view the city as an ecosystem.
To medicalize and depoliticize the legitimate stress and grief people feel from living in a necrotic system.
To replace water-intensive, sterile lawns with productive and beautiful native landscapes.
To create dense, walkable, community-oriented neighborhoods that share resources and reduce ecological footprints.
To reduce the urban heat island effect, manage stormwater, generate energy, and provide habitat.
To create a resilient, decentralized energy system powered by renewables and owned by the community.
To create a circular economy for construction materials by documenting everything used in a building for future reuse.
To replace polystyrene and plastic packaging with home-grown, compostable mycelium alternatives.
To make cycling a safe, viable, and primary mode of transport for people of all ages and abilities.
To reclaim streets from cars for people, drastically reducing traffic, noise, and air pollution in residential areas.
To provide on-demand, affordable, and zero-emission public transit for first/last-mile connections.
To normalize a culture of reuse and eliminate the concept of waste from public gatherings.
To turn organic waste (food scraps, yard waste) into renewable energy (biogas) and fertilizer for local farms.
To create a circular economy hub where businesses specialize in refurbishing, remanufacturing, and upcycling waste streams.
To legally equate Rights of Nature and deep ecology activism with domestic terrorism.
To reconnect fragmented habitats and support biodiversity by creating pathways for wildlife through the urban environment.
To rapidly grow dense, native forests on small plots of unused urban land for biodiversity, cooling, and carbon sequestration.
To preserve genetic diversity of food crops and empower citizens to become sovereign seed savers.
