Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this, but - I come to slrpnk.net to talk with people about solarpunk ideas and actions, but my dash is frequently filled with endless news stories. If I wanted to read upsetting news, I would… go read the news. Climate in particular has almost no discussion about climate change or actions we can take and only news articles. I’ve been thinking of blocking the community so that I don’t have to sift through news stories to get to posts by members of our community. Does anyone else feel like this?
(Note: this isn’t to say that I’m ungrateful for the folks sharing the news articles. I do appreciate it! I just feel that for myself, I’d rather focus on the possibilities that solarpunk has and human connection with others in this movement.)
I would be happy for more straight up discussions, but it’s somewhat difficult to organize and maintain engagement with discussion series’ and people would need to take that on. Or maybe we could organize a book club or work through a MOOC course? Find an interesting course syllabus and read through the readings together?
News posts are easy to make independently and often generate some discussion.
I like the idea of a book club!
Seconded! A book club sounds really cool :D