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… or has access to a debit or credit card, or has a bank account with either, or has a PayPal account, or has bitcoin, or Tor, or Linux, or one of many other things some and often many people just don't have…
#PermaComputing #FrugalComputing #UnBanked #DeBanked #Durable #Repairable #CircularEconomy #LibraryEconomy #Sustainable #Communal #RightToTinker #Repair #RightToAmend #RightToDIY #Reuse #Repurpose #ReInvent #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RightToOwn #RightToShare #RightToSell
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Actual cookbooks are better than online recipe slop sites.
Physical cookbooks are great.
Cool thing though, if you want to search for digital recipes online but don't want slop sites, use your local library's app and just check out an eCookbook.
It's even ad free!
(You can also go checkout a physical cookbook as well! They have an entire section at your library for them! 641.5x under the dewey decimal system!)
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryeconomy #food #cooking #cookbooks
Mua-hahahaha!!!
Yes. Yes that's right.
Down with the consumer economy of built-in obsolescence, disposable tech, and subscriptions.
Up with Right to Repair, Permacomputing, Library and Share Economies!
(Also trollololol on "device hoarding" and "costing economy {sic})
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
That is so cool, @tinker ! Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday !
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA has an e-bike lending library!
Just... go and check out an ebike. Ride it for a week for free. And then turn it back in. You can check it out multiple times so long as no has a hold for it.
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike
My library puts on a free concert each Monday night during the summer with a new band each week.
I love libraries.
My library has a free (to the end user) type/level 2 electric vehicle charger!
Since we're all pitching in a little bit of money via taxes (and our library gets a very small percentage of our town's taxes) and since this is a community not for profit charger, its a very inexpensive way to encourage EVs in town and encourage folks to visit the library for its other perks.
This is a wonderful example of solarpunk and library economies.
@george @rewind also ive found a few digital tools and resources for managing tool libraries, might be helpful for getting more people involved
http://www.toollibrarian.com/
https://localtools.org/
https://sharestarter.org/
#libraryEconomy #sharingEconomy #toolLibrary #libraryOfThings
What is the library economy? What does it look like? What if we ran a library economy?
Andrew Sage a.k.a. Andrewism (@drewthewho) discusses below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5EVNT--DA
#Socialism #Anarchism #LibraryEconomy #Solarpunk #Andrewism #Economy #Economics #Community
Alright! Meet and greet went really well. Both the Executive Director of all the libraries and the director of my specific branch were very interested in building out the tool library.
The Executive Director gave me her card and asked me to email her. She'll get me in touch with the project lead who would oversee this.
I'll reach out to them and see what the current plans are and if there are any obstacles to address.
This is exciting!!!!
#solarPunk #LibraryEconomy #ToolLibrary #mutualAid #LibraryOfThings
Idea: a community clothing closet; basically a thrift store of just clothes, categorized in type and size (but not gender because whatever). You can take out clothes in exchange for signing up on a volunteer sheet or bringing detergent or just with a membership card, depending on how the economy works. But when clothes are returned they go into a sorted laundry area; volunteers do laundry and hang the clothes back up so they can be borrowed by others.
@dx Yes! This is one of the things I love about #LibraryEconomy https://www.law.georgetown.edu/environmental-law-review/blog/is-a-library-centric-economy-the-answer-to-sustainable-living/
Gonna start a Tool library.
Kanopy is having an "Animated April" event, highlighting animated movies, cartoons, anime, and more.
Free with your local library card* (no ads)
@fisherstudio @neonsnake - You know, as much as I post about my local library and all the resources they offer, I hadn't realized that I internalized data retrieval as an individual problem.
Of course your local library would be a primary starting place to check on ways to retrieve and store data and may have a CD reader!
Thank you!
I'll run down today and see if I can move the data from the CD or a USB stick!
Seed Library Launch (coinciding with Earth Day) has been posted to the events page of my local library. A couple weeks later will be my Hydroponics for Beginners.
My course will focus on hydroponics growing with a focus on indoor, inexpensive, and passive means. Additional info will be given on mutual aid and community fridges. We'll end with everyone taking home a full grow kit (1-gallon bin, with halo grow lights, nutrients, and grow medium). We'll get our first seeds from the seed library!!!
#solarPunk #hydroponics #indoorGardening #mutualAid #libraryEconomy #seedLibrary
A #solarpunk photobash, this time a scene from a #LibraryEconomy.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I set these postcards a bit earlier in the solarpunk timeline than a lot of other works I know of in the genre. I like seeing the work in progress, the intermediate steps. So I think this photobash is set somewhere in the transition towards a library economy
More info here: https://slrpnk.net/post/5821833
This #photobash and all the other postcards are CC-BY, use them how you want: https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-from-a-solarpunk-future/
I decided to run an experiment this year that I’m excited about! My goal is to test the #libraryeconomy (it’s the future) in practice. I set up a simple spreadsheet for myself and my friends (and hopefully, friends of friends) to create a “things library”. Whatever’s there, we can borrow from each other, free of charge. Stuff such as instruments or tools, but also things that take up space and are not used often, such as an extra duvet for guests, or hiking gear. #solarpunk #sustainability