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The library opens
Every tile on the home page now opens onto a real shelf: growing guides, tools and tech, stories and lore, mutual aid. The first entries are my own projects, written…
As a Courtesy
A living archive of regenerative tools, stories, practices, and dreams — shared freely for a thriving future.
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As a Courtesy is an open, community-gathered collection of solarpunk resources. Here you will find design patterns, growing guides, energy experiments, mutual-aid blueprints, and fiction that imagines worlds beyond scarcity. Everything is a gift — take what you need, add what you can.
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The library
Growing Guides02
Permaculture plans, soil recipes, seed-saving calendars for every bioregion.
Tools & Tech05
Open-source hardware, low-carbon software, off-grid energy designs.
Stories & Lore02
Solarpunk fiction, manifestos, case studies of communities in transition.
Mutual Aid02
Tool libraries, skill-sharing networks, neighborhood resilience playbooks.
Freshly planted
Every entryNo. 011 · Stories & Lore
Websites that go to sleep when the sun does
Two projects run websites on solar power and accept going offline as part of the deal. They're the model for this site's solar mirror.
Case studySolarUptimeWeather
No. 010 · Growing Guides
What a long season makes possible in Zone 8a
Right around the line between 8a and 8b, the garden year has two springs and a long, hot middle. Planning around that.
GrowingFoodZone8a / 8b
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