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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cites aren't loud, cars are loud. A better world is possible.

clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For the "pollinators" prompt for #SolarpunkArtAugust I kept thinking about the bees and butterflies who obsess over our sunflowers, so here's a sketch of their flight paths.

A marker sketch of sunflowers, with lines drawing the flight paths of imagined bugs.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I really don't know what I'm doing with "desert solarpunk" as I've never been to a true desert, but I feel like lots of solarpanels giving shade to mitigate the heat seems good, a shaded dome to keep in some moisture might work and a solar oven would be good?? Would love to see what others imagine.

A crayon sketch of solar canopy over a domed house and some desert greenery, cacti around, a bus stop and a solar oven.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For "tropical solarpunk" I feel like an imposter, having been somewhere tropical merely twice in my life, but one of those times was this summer, and this picture is massively influenced by the architecture in Kauai, especially the airport, which had so many areas open to the outside.

A crayon sketch of a covered walkway, bordered by green foliage, with a chicken underfoot, and many red birds flying around, with a long roof of solarpanels on the adjacent part of the building, and an additional covered walkway there.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For "snowy solarpunk" I stayed pretty close to home-- There's a set of quilted curtains we're hoping to get put together to help keep in our heat in the winter nights, and ideally I would have thrown in a bunch of wind turbines. #SolarpunkArtAugust

A drawing of a woman sitting on a couch with her back to us, looking out a large window to the snowy world outside. Thick curtains hang around the window, a quilt on the couch and many plants are arranged either hanging over the window, or on end tables nearby. It is cozy.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For "Libraries" I just wanted to just recommend a whole pile of picture books that you might enjoy from your local library, all of which feel Solarpunk to me in some way. #SolarpunkArtAugust Details in alt text and comments. :)

A big arrangement of picturebooks for a large range of ages:
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley. (really solid and inclusive sex ed. This is the one for older kids, younger versions include "It's so Amazing" and "It's Not the Stork")
Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis (community, curiosity, ingenuity, love of the natural world)
A Family is a Family is a Family Written by: Sara O'Leary Illustrated by: Qin Leng (inclusive, affirming)
Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman ; illustrated by Christian Robinson (urban futures, community, garden, hope)
Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker illustrated by Quim Torres (global community, empathy, imagining a better future together)
A Turtle's View of the Ocean Blue by Catherine Barr, Illustrations by Brendan Kearney (ecology, climate, natural world)
Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers (global community, planet earth, hope for the future)
Planting a rainbow by Lois Ehlert (community, garden, family, hope)
Hands by Lois Ehlert, (hope, maker culture, art, hand sewing, gardens)
Apt. 3 by Ezra Jack Keats (urban life, disability, community, neighbors)
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loren Long (joy, art, hope for the future)
A Chair for my Mother by Vera Williams (community, recovering after disaster, family)
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou, illustrations by Jean Michel Basquiat (defiant confidence, hope despite everything)
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (urbanism, emotional lives of animals, community in a city, restoration)
Jamberry by Bruce Degen (nature, food, transit, joy)
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Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer (joy, nature, curiosity)
If You Were a City by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Frenci (Francesca) Sanna. (urbanism, diversity, imagination, joy)
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson (seeing the beauty, diversity, public transit, mutual aid, restoration)
In the Town All Year 'Round by Rotraut Susanne Berner (community life, hope, environmentalism, public transit, active transit, joy)
Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell with illustrations by Rafael Lopez (joy, community, art, public spaces)

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For LGBTQ+ families, I really wanted to share a lot of images so instead of making the art myself, I wanted to highlight some queer representation in picture books we love. All bibliographic info in comments and alt text. #solarpunkartaugust

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Perhaps stretching the term, "art" but looking at our church announcement page in the bulletin felt pretty solarpunk. #SolarpunkArtAugust

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#SolarpunkArtAugust "permaculture" Here's a sketch of a few of the perennials we've planted in our yard; sage, coneflower, and yarrow.

coneflower, Russian sage, and yarrow depicted in pencil sketch

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#SolarpunkArtAugust "disability rights" Here's a sketch of a solution I'm imagining for a sidewalk near me. There's a giant tree completely destroying the sidewalk in one spot, and I just want there to be a colorful painted path from the driveway before to the driveway after for anyone with wheels.

Sketch of a tree encroaching on the sidewalk, and a path drawn going into the road connecting the driveways before and after the tree, so that the sidewalk gets a little extension.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yesterday's #SolarPunkArtAugust was "solar ovens" and so I'm sharing a couple of spreads from my handmade collaged book of the Solarpunk manifesto, with solar ovens featured.

A collage spread from a handmade book featuring hand stitching, a woman dancing, a group gathered by the stream, a tree planting, colored geometric texture, some digitally rendered botanicals, a bit of an impressionist painting involving a tree and some water, and a photo of a young girl next to a giant solar oven. Text includes handwritten "justice is what love looks like in public" and the printed, "9. Solarpunk emphasizes environmental sustainability and social justice." "10. Solarpunk is about finding ways to make life more wonderful for us right now, and also for the generations that follow us." and "11. Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have. Imagine 'smart cities' being junked in favor of smart citizenry."

An image of a spread in a handmade collage book. A crayon rub texture in the background, with a drawing of a figure handling garden cuttings in front of a cozy house with a wheelbarrow next to it, also a photo of group of over ten solar ovens. The text reads, "21. In Solarpunk, we've pulled back just in time to stop the slow destruction of our planet. We've learned to use science wisely, for the betterment of our life conditions as part of our planet. We're no longer overlords. We're caretakers. We're gardeners."

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Maria Gehrke | Art as a Portal to Your Vision ✨ @livelovemaria.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I had some catching up to do for Solarpunk Art August. Here we go with Day 8: “A Garden With A View” Watercolor Art Card The art prompt was “Balcony Garden”. #solarpunk #climatechange #watercolorartwork #solarpunkart #SolarpunkArtAugust

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today's #SolarpunkArtAugust prompt is bicycles, and it makes me really happy to share this spread from the stitchbook I made this spring. Riding bikes instead of driving cars is solidly in the center of my climate action Venn diagram inspired by @ayanaeliza.bsky.social's TED Talk (link below).

A cloth book open to a spread with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's venn diagram about your climate action: three intersecting circles with the words "what work needs doing?" "what are you good at?" and "what brings you joy?" all on the left page and a variety of bikes (and a scooter!) embroidered and cloth collaged on the right.

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Owen Biesel @owenbiesel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today's #SolarpunkArtAugust prompt is "Urban gardens." For this drawing, I imagined reclaiming a city street for a community garden (in raised beds for now, because of poor soil quality), and there was plenty of room left over for walkways, bike lanes, and a tram line.

A city street with two- and three-story buildings on either side in various bright colors. The space that would normally be taken up by cars and parking is instead occupied by light rail, a two-way set of bike lanes, and a grid of raised beds.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Urban gardens originally had me thinking of a downtown full of canopy down at ground level, and rooftop gardens at sky level, but then I started thinking of reclaimed highways-- the way old train tracks are being made into greenways... #SolarpunkArtAugust

a black and white printout of a highway overpass where all levels of the highway have been painted over with trees, plants, paths for walking, biking, benches, a little pushcart vender with an umbrella, and a pond. There are also birds and butterflies, ivy climbing the walls, a biker bikes past on the one side, and a parent and child play near the pond.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For today #SolarpunkArtAugust the prompt is "balcony gardens." Here's a photo Daniel Miksha shared on upsplash which I printed out and collaged over with pictures from a seed catalog.

A collage with a black and white photo of a wall of apartment balconies, with foliage from a seed catalog cut and placed as though they're plants growing as balcony gardens.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today is a super quick sketch for the prompt, "solar sprinkler" and what came to mind is these little solar powered birdbath fountains that keep them from mosquito nurseries. I don't have one, but I'd love to have one someday! #SolarPunkArtAugust

little pencil sketch of a floating fountain with solarpanels around the spout, in a birdbath with a little bird perched on the rim.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today's #SolarPunkArtAugust is "community gardens." This is a collage I did inspired by my 3 year old's first independent sign for her school's children's march. Her teacher wrote the words, but it was clear she had decided what it should say: "PLANT MORE GARDENS."

A double page spread of a collage cut from flower catalogs, with the words, "Plant more GARDENS" in then white paper lines on top of the spray of colors.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#SolarpunkArtAugust Today's prompt is little free pantries. My only real contact with one was our church in MN-- it always had granola bars, a few cans of soup, and some tampons and pads in their little free library. But it's made me think about the ways people work to share food freely.

pencil sketch of a wheelbarrow full of groceries with the sign, "Loving our neighbors"

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today's #SolarpunkArtAugust prompt is Little Free Libraries, so I both made a new instruction sign for our LFL, and I'm including an etching I drew of our house, including the library we made out front. :)

A photo of the inside of a little free library, complete with books, leaflets for a Josh Elliott, (a progressive candidate for CT gov!) and a little sign telling how little free libraries work.

An etching in green ink of a small house with solar panels, raised garden beds, and lots of flowers and birds/butterflies. A Little Free Library is in the foreground.

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Owen Biesel @owenbiesel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's #SolarpunkArtAugust prompt is "protest." I was in a discussion recently where someone was relating the expectation that a protest be primarily about anger — after all, something needs to change. But it wasn't until I started going to protests regularly that I realized there's more... (1/3)

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today's #solarpunkArtAugust prompt is "vote" and so I'm sharing some postcards we've made as a household to encourage people to vote! Remember there are many primaries happening this month, be sure to check and see if you have one soon: in CT it's August 11, and early voting has already begun!

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For this art challenge, I'm gonna just share some art everyday, and if I've already made art that fits the prompt, I'll post that. So, today for "protest" here are a bunch of protest signs we've in our household recently! #SolarPunkArtAugust

Many protest signs laid out on a floor, messages include, "Abolish ICE" with a statue of liberty, "No Forced Migrations" surrounded by butterflies, multiple no kings signs with crowns ex-ed out, "Teach with Pride" "Power to the People" lettered and decorated by a 4 year old, "Unfit to be the Ruler of Free People" "Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today- Malcolm X" "Safety for all on a diagram of a protected bikelane intersection with crosswalks, "Reject Dystopia," "Tax the Rich/CT for all/ICE OUT" letter pressed, "A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE," "Workers of the world, Unite" lettered and decorated by a four year old, "Our Love for each other will Carry us Through," "We Only Get One" surrounding a full color drawing of the Earth, "We get There Together or Never Get There At All," Solidarity Forever" written on a rainbow, "Don't Scatter, Organize" with images of a big fish chasing a bunch of little fish for the "Scatter" part, and all the little fish chasing the big fish with the "organize" part, a reprint of the iconic "war is not healthy for children and other living things" sunflower, "Support Public Ed, Support our Kids," and "Liberty and Justice for all"

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's some stitch art I did earlier this year for Ann Wood Handmade's Stichbook project, and it fits nicely into today's #SolarPunkArtAugust What plants do you love to look at?

A green polka dotted rectangle of fabric with a group of houseplants stitched and raw edged appliqued into a scene.

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Josh Elliott @joshforct.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Your energy bill is too high. I am running for Governor to take on the system that is asking for yet another rate increase. Because you deserve someone in Hartford who will go to bat for you. You deserve public power.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thank you to Owen for tagging Murderbot's outrage at a lack of public transit. Welcome to the @thewaroncars.bsky.social indeed.

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Owen Biesel @owenbiesel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've had stuff repaired at repair cafes, and been a volunteer at a couple myself! They're really fun, build community, and keep precious resources out of the landfill at the same time.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”

futurism.com

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"We don't have room for those things!" You always do. Just look under the cars.

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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

we should share the good commencement speech more than the bad one!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

fastcompany.com

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets

From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbD... So I was just nerding out about awnings, but it's making me think: once we all get access to "balcony solar" people could totally put a little frame up over their windows and have the solar panel live there as a little awning, absorbing the energy from the sun x2!

youtube.com

Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/05/2026

Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now: 🧵

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford this in Copenhagen🇩🇰?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it?’ 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure..bicycling.”~ Morten Kabell

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! If you're looking for a way of supporting trans loves, I've donated a handmade quilt and some handprinted cards to an auction to support Point of Pride, and there are many free ebooks today if you're looking for more Trans representation in your reading! Links below:

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We took our new @bunchbike.com for its first protest today and everyone had a great time. Spontaneously changed plans to pile in a neighbor's kid for the trip home, which we couldn't have done in our car without arranging for a carseat swap- we had an extra helmet already stashed in the bike!

A picture of a front loading cargo bike with arches supporting a sunshade decorated with a Crown crossed through with a red x, the box of the cargo bike is decorated with leaves, flowers, and butterflies and the words "Solidarity Forever" on the side and "A better world is coming" on the front.

This is a closeup of a handmade fabric sign with an image of a big yellow crown with a red ribbon x through it, and the words "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable, but then so did the divine right of kings -Ursula K. LeGuin" embroidered on it.

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clarabiesel.bsky.social @clarabiesel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Excited for the Trans Rights Readathon this month: transrightsreadathon.carrd.co feel free to join!

transrightsreadathon.carrd.co

Trans Rights Readathon

Trans Rights Readathon 2025

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"Real energy security is about reducing strategic vulnerability. Every rooftop solar panel is an act of economic sovereignty. Every wind turbine is a barrel of oil that never has to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Every MW-hour of storage makes a grid less dependent on a pipeline or a tanker."

climateandcapitalmedia.com

No one goes to war over a solar panel

Fossil fuels aren't a shield against chaos. They are a conduit for it.

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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

State Rep @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social brought her newborn home from the hospital by cargo bike — made possible by years of investment in protected bike infrastructure. When we build for ALL ages & abilities, we make the best transportation choices the easiest choices. What a story to tell someday!

startribune.com

Lawmaker, husband ride e-bike to, and from, baby’s delivery

Rep. Katie Jones, a Minneapolis Democrat, and her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled to the hospital before and after their son was born.

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