Solar Punk Fashion And Style

Lichen hairpin made of broken glass found around my city, enamel, copper, and nickel silver :)

And then they also complain about how there are SOOOOO many leaves and also SOOOOO many sweetgum balls and SOOOOO many fallen branches and twigs.

And I'm like...hey guys...there is a very easy solution to this problem here. Why can you not see it?

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

I have asthma and can’t use a push mower. I don’t own a riding mower. I can’t mow my lawn timely. I’m also not gonna pay a company to mow here 2x a week. I have a relative mow the front portion of my yard a few times a summer and we call it good. I then rewilded the property so the native plants manage themselves, my backyard is a meadow now. I have lots of trees.

People stopped fussing about the lawn eventually and these old huffy folks eventually moved away. I got chickens, turkeys, quail, rabbits in the meantime. My place is a hobby farm. I planted crops and gardens. My yard isn’t immaculate but it’s okay. I have corn and watermelons growing in my front lawn. 

From then on, a neighbor turned a spare acreage across the street into pasture and got a pair of donkeys. A herd of feral guineas roams the whole neighborhood. I’m the poultry lady here. A guy talked to me about turning his property for pigs recently. Someone on another street turned extra lots they bought into a meadow for their herd of goats right in the middle of the suburb. On the other side of the neighborhood someone has horses in a nice big field. At the road entrance to the neighborhood, the first house you see is another hobby farm of a couple dogs, a 4 wheeler,  some really happy kids and chickens. And their house is really beautiful too.  

All of this because I stopped mowing my lawn regularly when I moved in.  

It’s truly a thing of beauty and the homes are getting more affordable! Because someone in a local fb group complained a few months ago about it “I can’t sell a house here for the highest I want to because of all these places here! This used to be a decent neighborhood!” 

So first off starting with cold climates: Hobbit holes and esrthships. These guys are great to trap in heat, and some earthship designs have an exterior shell so you can grow food year round. There's even these pre-made ones so you can slap some soil and grow whatever you want into it without having to worry! Alternatively having tightly connected clusters of houses with canopy overlaps between each other combined with isolated housing be good since ppl like to live densely in cold climates!

Next up- hot and humid! Places like Spain often has these large courtyards in the middle of the building typically with a socializing space and a water feature to hang out during the hot days. They also feature stucco- traditionally made out of lime, sand, and water and wonderfully colorful ceramic tiles or stonework on the outside of the building to soak up the heat during the day to slowly release it back into the house at night. These types of houses are usually built for multiple generations to live in at once so they often take up quite a bit of space

Desserts are wonderful places for the traditional Earthships as that's what they're built for. To capture rain, wind, and solar as much as possible and creating an oasis indoors. They also have the addition of looking like fantasy housed! Obvi you can make them a million ways but I love the whimsical nature of them.

The downside is it’s very labor intensive, heavy work, moving dirt and tamping tires. A traditional stick house can be slapped up in a few weeks. It takes months to years to construct an earthship.