Well, I’m in the process of internally overboarding with 50mm PIR sheets for added insulation, added 200mm fibreglass into each floor of my house, and 150mm PIR on top of my flat roofs.

And have just had a heat pump installed, frustratingly, still haven’t quite worked out how to properly drive the thing yet so am rather cold currently.

I am living my life in such a way that I mostly get to choose to use my time to do what I want, in ways that work for my bodymind. I participate in my community with my chosen family. I don’t buy things that I don’t actually need, I try to make due with what I have, and fix things that need fixing and mend things that need mending as much as possible. I write and create and share knowledge and skills freely and help others, especially for causes that are life-affirming and nourishing of people and planet. I live in a walkable community connected with electric trains. I cook and eat fresh, healthy, mostly locally sourced foods. I strive to move through the world in ways that spread hope, joy, beauty, love, connection, and awareness.

I am fortunate to be able to live in a country where all of this is more possible than the country I came from. I want more people to be able to experience this life (and to be able to maintain it myself, which is admittedly looking a bit dicey these days.) I want this more slow, mindful, and convivial way of life to be normalized as the “good life.”

We have solar panels and a backup battery for when the grid goes down. Our panels generate more than we generally use (we overbuilt on purpose) but we could run almost indefinitely as long as the panels are clear. There are two totes hooked up to a gutter on the back of our garage which provide 550 gallons of water storage that we use to water gardens and top up our duck pond. The ducks and chickens do most of our insect maintenance in the gardens.

I’m working on additional shelving in our cellar in order to be able to store more of our canning from the gardens; most of the material is reclaimed pallet wood from a nearby business. We’ve also got two slightly damaged solar panels that I’d like to use to circulate the water in the duck pond - pump and lift to flow through some uphill garden space back down to the pond after it’s been filtered by the plants - and to provide some power to the bird coop for water heaters and maybe a light source.

For the future, I want to help bring about system level change in addition to the things I can do in my personal life. There is too much power concentrated in the hands of too few people. I would like to run software on my smartphone to help build an open source and decentralized global platform for digital democracy.

I work on a wind farm and I’m preparing to build an earthship home. I have an electric bike and I’m also a raging democratic socialist.

I love reusing old electronics I find! It’s pretty fun.

My clothes last me an unusual amount of time when compared with most people I think (15 year old tshirts) and don’t really buy clothes at all unless something is at the limit of repairability or looking very bad.

I want to ride my bike more. I work from home so I use it mostly to go the gym but I want to use for more things. Like shopping and stuff like that. I’m thinking of buying an electric one to help out since I live in a city with steep hills and an electric one would make it more likely to use.

I’m planning to put solar panels on my bicycle cart so I can work in the wild.

I live on this wet little ball of rock that not only gets its heat directly from a sun, but like half of my food harvests the radiation for its energy! And the other half gets its energy from that stuff!

May be: I own a FrameWork laptop (bought the older generation new, because it is fast enough for me, but I want to support them). Also I self host a couple of web services myself (music streaming, file storage, RSS). I also live in a shared flat (although I could afford my own appartment) and take the bike to go everywhere in the city.

I dont know if that counts as solar punk. However, I think that many of the comments are very inspiring :D

I make biodiesel for my farm and have as many solar panels hooked to the grid as allowed. I’m also learning how to do my own seed saving.

The front of my house faces southwest. On a sunny afternoon, when it is freezing outside, my house is well enough insulated that the sunlight entering through my front windows and storm door can raise the temperature inside by several degrees Fahrenheit. By closing the prime front door, and covering my windows with insulated plugs, it takes several hours to lose those degrees of heat.

• I am trying to do self hosted services and storage at home for my digital stuff. This helps minimize e-waste since I follow a model of upgrade my primary device, then deprecate the previous system to hosting duty
• we do composting and try to do as much zero waste food as possible
• I garden for polinators and vegetables in the free space around our house. I have some grass for the kids/dog but we use no chemicals on any of our plants/yard
• 2 50 gallon rain barrels
• goal for next year is partial solar and additional waste reduction.
• I also started a job that is ~1 mile from home vs 37 each way so my fuel consumption basically dropped to 0

I have a fold up solar panel and power station so I can play games on my modular entertainment system all day.

Eventually I’d like an upgrade of a self charging vehicle like the concept of aptera, although not sure when it will be available.

We live in a small village with a bakery and a local farmer store at walking distance from the house.

I’m working remotely in a repurposed train station. The whole station had been turned into a third space last year and quite a lot of events are happening there.

Today there was a presentation of different initiatives happening in the valley, i found two initiatives particularly interesting.

The first one is a cooperative ISP provider, I’ll change my provider to join them.

The second one is another cooperative that is installing renewable energy and offering “collective self consumption”. To simplify it: when my neighbor’s solar panels are overproducing I can buy it directly from him. The rest of the time I’m using electricity from my regular provider.

Except that in this case it’s organized in the scale of several villages.