By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management

United States

Informational Resources

• r/solarpunk beginner guide https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/vb1ky1/new_to_solarpunk_start_here

• This is a blueprint for a sustainable town. A volunteer run non profit that is making open source resources for sustainable living, from housing to energy. I just found this and it's looking promising. Keywords: Food, education https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/

• Good Earth Archive: An extensive community created library of Solarpunk and related resources, content creators and guides. Keywords: Knowledge base, wiki, guides, media https://discord.gg/qxqDfJaMbS

• r/Solarpunk Wiki. The official subreddit wiki containing detailed lists of literature, media, projects, and some good introductory guides Keywords: Knowledge base, Communities https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/wiki

• BookWyrm Reading List: A publicly curated reading list for any and all solarpunk related works (WIP, please add any solarpunk related books you would recommend people to read!) https://bookwyrm.social/list/420

• Solarpunk: A Reference Guide: A huge collection of literature and resources comprehensively detailing the history of the movement and explaining how many works have influenced what it is today: https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965

• Sunbeam City Wiki - Knowledge Base: Mastodon instance Sunbeam City's collective knowledge base including solarpunk literature, movies, social sites, and various definitions of relevant concepts: https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=solarpunk

• Solarpunk Station: A blog homepage which includes a list of many useful resources: https://solarpunkstation.com/resources/

• Solarpunk DIY Repository: "Hundreds of documents about basically everything solarpunk" https://t.me/solarpunkrepository

• Solar Punk beginner guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/vb1ky1/new_to_solarpunk_start_here

• Think That Through: Media content related to Solarpunk, Youtube: https://youtu.be/Ca0pwDFXSZk

• This is an article about what is solar punk, and the website also has a bunch of other articles on solarpunk. https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/

• Nature4Cities "Nature4Cities aims at raising awareness about Nature-Based Solutions, (NBS) and foster new collaborative models for NBS uptake by developing a knowledge, assessment and decision support platform. This platform will provide knowledge repositories, tools for the assessment of benefits, co-benefits and costs of NBS projects, as well as tools to manage stakeholder’s participation processes. ​ It will help you step by step with your NBS project" Has many information, publications, and also an interactive map of already existing nature based solutions. Keywords: Education, innovation, sustainability, NBS, urban design https://www.nature4cities.eu/the-n4c-project

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Paradigms

• SOLAR PUNK! Greenify cities. Trees, plants, plants!

Stock and Flow Structures

• Reduce light pollution by putting light covers on lights that stay on during the night. Light covers are made from recycled materials.