The Utopian Solar-Punk Future is Here... and It's Wrapped in Plastic.
On the murky compromises we make in pursuit of a better world
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Before the rain we lay the root-mass of vegetative life unfolding, of awakening seedling trees, down in cool chasms in the ground, scoured out by the winding spiral threads of the auger– sod torn from the earth, …