We do not tell Stories.

We steward them.

We are in Service to Stories that Serve Us. That summon and spell a World alive with Positive Possibilities. We find them and seed them in the common ground of reality, and tend to their growth with our attention, our intentions, our imaginations and our actions. Reality is ours to shape, and together our potential for change is infinite.

We are here to point clearly at the opportunities. To whisper, dance around and sometimes scream HAVE YOU FUCKING SEEN THIS BEAUTIFUL POSSIBILITY?

We start with what is already here. The generous future that is already growing in the cracks, ruins and abandoned spaces.

Each of the below is a Seed. If it resonates with you tend to it, share it, spread it, grow it. Help this reality that is already here become abundant for all.

People from the Future
I’m from best possible future we can imagine together. If you feel out of place here, if you never fit, it’s possible you are also from the Future. It’s why you lived so much in your head. In the realm of imagination and possibility. But you are here to grow this better future. It’s your reason for being.

This is an invitation, what is your chronological or universal origin point.

What happens when you expand your story of being beyond geography and monoculture? What story do you belong to?

It’s easy to grow this Seed. When someone asks where you are from answer “I’m from the future”.

The best possible Future
At any given point multiple presents, pasts and futures overlap. Multiple realities are coincident, but presently we are presented with a limited number of undesirable options. There is not one future but many. Pick the best possible future, find it in the here and now, and help it to grow.

Below are some examples of where you can find these futures growing. Find more and share #seeingthecanopy.

The Forest calls us Home
The Forest calls Us “Home”. The forest took us back. The deserts are gone, bar a few “preserves” reminders of what was and as as sanctuaries for the rare life forms that can only thrive in those conditions. We keep them as pioneer species for pre-forested planets. The Food Forests act as 4D growing systems of abundance that produces multiple harvests and opportunities throughout the year. Our food systems, like our lifestyles are polycultural.

It is happening already.

We produce Food Forests as byproduct of our lifestyles
Your body produces food (aka fertiliser), the present system blocks the flows of food, seed and soil, from body, from house, from city to the very beings that feed and nourish us. It produces Deserts by Default.

In the future no seed is wasted, no food goes without an eater. Everything is food for something eventually.

The Amazon Rainforest was once a garden. It is evidence that we can live like this.

We use the Sun for heat, the Wind for motion, and the Void for Cooling.

Electricity has it’s place but it is often less efficient. Relatable energy systems dominate.

We use and store heat when the suns shines, move, do motion work (sawing, sewing, grinding, etc.) and store wind as air pressure when the wind blows. We cool the Earth, our Buildings, and Store Cold, when the Void of Space takes the heat from the Earth. All of these systems are understood as relationships, and are relatable - locally maintained, repaired and reproduced.

It is happening and already happened, there are factories that run on the wind (and the Dutch even used the wind to save land from the Sea). There are Steel Mills that melt steel with the Sun. The Persians invented Ice cream in the Desert with simple physics.

We live in Homes that adapt and evolve to our changing needs.
As our families evolves, grows and reproduces so do our homes, changing with the seasons of the land and seasons of life. Our homes are accessible and adaptable, and maximise our opportunities to live well using planetary resources wisely.

The Modular Commons is curating this reality

Our children learn to shape the world through play.
From an early age they learn how to support life and help it grow, and use what the world offers them to expand opportunities for shelter, for life, for playful cocreation.

Solarpunk NOW is prototyping this reality.