solarpunk

- ASL as a second language for the benefit of the HOH/Deaf.

- solar power/motorized wheelchair-machines and corresponding infrastructure for them

- Healthcare for everyone who needs it. Everyone.

- accessibility as a key part of architecture. If you can’t make it accessible, don’t bother submitting the plans

- non-capitalistic economic structure, so no human is ranked by their productive output

- extensive public transit.

- events will have seating, indoor space, climate control, transcripts, captions, food labeled with allergens, braille and large text options for written material, recordings, and any interpreters needed.

- keep vital resources within a reasonable distance of residential areas

- large social programs for support.

“Sun”

I had no intention of making up a robot for Horizon: Zero Dawn, but an image of a robot deer/moose with solar panel antlers randomly popped into my head and I was like “I gotta draw this.” The antlers aren’t well made but it works as a concept, I think.

I call it a Suncatcher. They take light they absorb with their antlers and convert it into electricity which is stored in the sparker on its back. They’re out during the day but go home to a cauldron or go inactive at night. They travel slowly in small herds, usually six or more, and never stay still, always following the position of the sun.

They’re like Grazers and Lancehorns, but they’re much bigger, in order to give it more surface area for its solar panels without giving it weird proportions. The big sparker on the back is worth 4 sparker resources. They’re pretty neutral towards people since they’re so big, until they feel threatened and use their electricity-based attacks to fight.

The appeal of those green cityscapes in the pretty pictures isn’t just that they’re hi-tech and clean, it’s that they sprout from a society that values compassion, the environment, and human lives more than it values profit. We need to build that society first, and we need to build it from the ground up with what we have available