BBC News
By Nicola K Smith
image captionThe solarpunk aesthetic depicts nature and technology in harmony
Lush green communities with roof top gardens, floating villages, transport fuelled by clean energy and hope-filled sci-fi tales. Imagine a world in which existing technologies are deployed for the greater good of both people and the planet.
It s called solarpunk. The term, coined in 2008, refers to an art movement which broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature in a sustainable and egalitarian world. Solarpunk is really the only solution to the existential corner of climate disaster we have backed ourselves into as a species, says Michelle Tulumello, a solarpunk art teacher in New York state.