Solarpunk Nomads: new vehicles and first land based project in Italy
{"type": "project", "title": "Solarpunk Nomads: new vehicles and first land based project in Italy", "logoImg": "bafkreibexngzq62xxc22jg5a7fks3f6zcmn36lq23yfglzpwd3lmq5ag3u", "website": "https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz", "bannerImg": "bafkreiexnvj5bkvve3cmmuh6a6e5ekdjh7ssmr57bt3d67vx232fd3lck4", "createdAt": 1713715423311, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..cpEKgN253zUr2QPIbuEZopQv3aLyuijqE-sKC01oPBxLh4VR2EynVhs5IP3U39Z_rc34WvJ_wjcnQrngcq_MBA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-21T16:01:14.121Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-21T16:01:14.121Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-20T16:01:14.121Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x21aa8E36Fae6e39D6780E04DD46764f6B2274d01", "hash": "v0.0.0:+Z8l7d8A38F0qNKKF6cF/gBkeIzfFPam4jtdGFR2j7Q=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#SolarpunkNomads"}}}, "description": "Since early 2022, we have been collectively developing the concept of Solarpunk Nomadism.\nFrom concept development, to the first vehicles + implementations, workshops and online tools **and now new vehicles and an upcoming land project.** \n\nAll the vehicles created by us are **community-owned** and employed to **accelerate the transition towards a sustainable and climate-resilient society.**\n\n***\n\n**WHO ARE THE SOLARPUNK NOMADS**\n\nChangemakers, dreamers, and builders who live nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyles using **zero-carbon emission vehicles** - such as EV vans, EV bikes, sailboats or even traveling on foot- powered by renewable energies.\n\n🚐 🛰️ These nomads remain constantly connected to the internet through satellite connections and are proactive in **forging a Solarpunk society.**\n\n☀️🗣️ They are the storytellers and primary catalysts of a society where technology and ecological wisdom converge to **craft a brighter future for all.**\n\n***\n\n**WHAT'S COMING**\n*These are all our active projects, your contribution will enable us to build this and much more.*\n\n🔜 Our first land based project, a **Climate Adaptation Research Station** (CARS) in Northern **Italy**. This research station will allow us to have a space to test innovative Solarpunk Technologies to activate one of the key aspects of Solarpunk Nomadism: bringing **Climate Solutions** to local communities to increase their Climate Change Resilience. First concept art of the development of the property of 3.7 acres: \n\n[![Untitled-Artwork.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/05VX0Zw7/Untitled-Artwork.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/z3RkJCpf)\n\n🔜 A **bamboo expedition bike** in Uganda with the aim of doing Climate Advocacy in southern Uganda, in collaboration with Comrades to Youths [Comrades to Youths](https://cty-africa.org/)\n\n[![Bamboo-Bike-Version-2.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/8cGgWFdC/Bamboo-Bike-Version-2.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/JDpFCz2w)\n\n🔜 A **solarpunk cargo bike** in Latin America in collaboration with [Web3Beach](https://twitter.com/web3beach), assisting a local changemaker in reforestation and beautification activities in the city of Lima. \n\n[![Untitled-Artwork-1.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/8zDp6zBc/Untitled-Artwork-1.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/ZC7zkZQz)\n\n🔜 Our first hiking expedition in the Alps, done with friends of our community with the goal of **co-imagining the future of the alpine region.** Also testing a Solarpunk mountain setup. Happening in June 2024. [Working Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xlb2Zo0qcfYB9la-QAruD1fviy7EHlpwvIb0Urn5CoM/edit)\n\n[![SPN-ROAD-MAP-2023.png](https://i.postimg.cc/G3ydgyX9/SPN-ROAD-MAP-2023.png)](https://postimg.cc/vDbJccFd)\n\n🔜 Side quest in Sweden to open the way of the creation of a **safe place in Scandinavia**, May 2024.\n\n🔜 [Imagine Brussels](https://citizenspring.earth/projects/imaginebrussels), a Solarpunk Art Exhibition in Belgium co-organised with other local partners as part of a side event of ethCC in Brussels, Belgium. July 2024.\n\n🔜 A **Solarpunk educational board game** that focuses on envisioning sustainable futures, in particular on the sustainable [Green Competence](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/greencomp-european-sustainability-competence-framework_en/) of Future Literacy. The project is being co-developed with [Zavod Erea](https://zavod-erea.com/) and is **co-financed by the European Union.** An extra project for SPN, necessary to delve deeper in the world of Education and of European grants. \nSneak peek on this extra project:\n[![NOMADS-MOOD-BOARD.png](https://i.postimg.cc/02RQyGt1/NOMADS-MOOD-BOARD.png)](https://postimg.cc/LhDRyPKx)\n\n\n🔜 Three **Solarpunk World Building workshops**, online or in real life, co-creating spaces where participants are brought to an immersive solarpunk reality and invited to craft their own vision of the future.\n\n🔜 Develop an **Interactive Map of the Future** featuring Nomads, Safe Places, Routes and Tribes.  [2024]\n\n🔜 Build the **Solarpunk Nomads DApp** to assist traveling changemakers in: \n-monitoring and reducing CO2 emissions [2024]  \n-accessing community vehicles and safe places [2024]\n-leveraging regenerative activities at the local level [2025]\n\n***\n\n**ACTIVELY EXPLORING, RESEARCHING…**\n\n💡**A network of solar powered recharge stations**, testing area in **Nigeria** with [Switch Electric](https://www.whynotswitch.com/). \n\n💡**A project in Ladakh**, India to increase the Climate Change resilience of the local population. The region of Ladakh is considered the third pole of the world due to its ice fields **containing the largest reserve of freshwater outside the polar regions.**\n\n***\n\n**WHAT WE HAVE BUILT SO FAR [LATEST] [2024]**\n*Update on all that was done since the start of the year 2024.*\n\n✔️ **The Climate Tracker tool** to help regenerators monitor and improve their individual Climate Change Resilience. [2023] Test your Climate Resilience now [HERE](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz/climate_tracker/)!\n\n[![GJMx-Y37-Wc-AAp-KC3-1.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/J0qTYxg9/GJMx-Y37-Wc-AAp-KC3-1.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/q6NXzspL)\n\n✔️ Upgrade of the **Nomad Hub** thanks to our help of our designer from Mexico Adriana, with new sections showcasing:\n-[European Solar Bike](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz/solar-ecamper-bike/)\n-[The E-Tuk Tuk](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz/solarpunk-tuk-tuk/)\n-[The Solarpunk Nomads Routes](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz/routes/)\n\n✔️ **GAIA**, an AI infused with Solarpunk ideals and human creativity. GAIA is more than just a chatbot; it's a beacon guiding us towards a sustainable future, fostering innovation, connecting minds, and inspiring collective action. Test the 1st version [HERE](tinyurl.com/CHATBOTGAIA)!\n\n***\n\n**WHAT WE HAVE BUILT SO FAR [2022-2023]**\n*Solarpunk Nomads started in May 2022. These are all the projects we have completed in the last 2 years.*\n\n✔️ Completed a **European Tour of Solarpunk World Building IRL workshops** with events happening in London, Amsterdam and Berlin (+India few months before with 2 events)\n\n[![NETHERLANDS.png](https://i.postimg.cc/2SMfxjnn/NETHERLANDS.png)](https://postimg.cc/pmf7WHGd)\n\n\n✔️ The first version of the **[Nomad Hub](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz)**, a gamified digital platform where:\n-you can explore the world of Solarpunk Nomads\n-you can discover the first ever Solarpunk Nomads Vehicles\n-you have access to **the tools of the nomads**, including the Nomad Fund, Solarpunk World Building, and in the future, the Climate Tracker and G.AI.A chatbot.\n-you can see how we manage the funds of the project\n\n✔️ Completed a revision of the **Solarpunk Nomadism digital guidebook.**\n\n✔️ Launched **Solarpunk World Building**, generating over **900k views in 5 months and over 1000 AI artworks.**\n\n✔️ **Opened the first Solarpunk Nomads Route** by riding the first Solarpunk camper bike for over **1500 kilometers from Italy to Belgium**, testing the set-up from Southern Europe to Northern Europe. \n\n[![Netherlands.png](https://i.postimg.cc/W16KRVyJ/Netherlands.png)](https://postimg.cc/WdzSrBT2)\n\n✔ ️ Completed the set-up of the **electric Tuk Tuk in India**, to be used for education activities and expeditions to document Climate Change.\n\n[![r-Cvdvz-I1ovmo-Gbp-GF3e-PCCD7-Vfa-Dve7-Gy-Lo-FQ33-Edzl-FEw-UAb-Mmlw-MKg-Qb-OKWmv-B-Gur-R9dsv87-W96-IB2-B-TDMSft-Oks42u-TGZ.png](https://i.postimg.cc/g02gfZRf/r-Cvdvz-I1ovmo-Gbp-GF3e-PCCD7-Vfa-Dve7-Gy-Lo-FQ33-Edzl-FEw-UAb-Mmlw-MKg-Qb-OKWmv-B-Gur-R9dsv87-W96-IB2-B-TDMSft-Oks42u-TGZ.png)](https://postimg.cc/hXN8mh2r)\n\n✔ ️Completed the setup of **the first Solarpunk Nomads E-bike**, now stationed in central Europe.\n\n[![r6-Mnwoj-AYlom-WUq-Chm-Lx-QNJl-CCVEakj-Qonm2j-ZDf8h-BCls0-Vx-O4-Imuuasc-SXK3683ut1t-KR3-Y-txmh-ICsk-Cvbd-J0-GVHSa23g-KGr8.png](https://i.postimg.cc/3wkgXC2J/r6-Mnwoj-AYlom-WUq-Chm-Lx-QNJl-CCVEakj-Qonm2j-ZDf8h-BCls0-Vx-O4-Imuuasc-SXK3683ut1t-KR3-Y-txmh-ICsk-Cvbd-J0-GVHSa23g-KGr8.png)](https://postimg.cc/94jRV9xv)\n\n✔️ Established **a social treasury for nomads in need**, then [Nomad Fund](https://www.solarpunknomads.xyz/nomad_fund/).\n\n✔️ Kickstarted this new concept from scratch.\n\n✔️ Created over 50 original visual artifacts in collaboration with various artists.\n\n\n[![DSH1bf-NP5-AQs-IXv7-Fm-Ddl-PERx1-TSv-WBta-Wd-Hdp-Op9-O34-EHG8-NMFeub-Dl-Ng0-C1-YSn-R2-Ni0-AI8ku-QABQ6-Cfsj7yamcev-Fvtp-OSf-Mk.png](https://i.postimg.cc/9MtzZrgQ/DSH1bf-NP5-AQs-IXv7-Fm-Ddl-PERx1-TSv-WBta-Wd-Hdp-Op9-O34-EHG8-NMFeub-Dl-Ng0-C1-YSn-R2-Ni0-AI8ku-QABQ6-Cfsj7yamcev-Fvtp-OSf-Mk.png)](https://postimg.cc/gXjYPkPC)\n\n✔️ Built an ongoing virtual art exhibition about Solarpunk Nomadism, [check it here](https://spatial.io/s/Solarpunk-Nomads-exhibition-6315b520c490500001340a6b?share=4245792330981123574).\n\n✔️ Co-founded the Solarpunk Guild, a collective that supports SP-inspired projects\n\n***\n\n**TEAM**\n\n🐻 [Marco](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-gerletti-15041b20a/): Solarpunk Nomad in passion with education, electrification and Climate Activism.\nMarco can be found in other Climate Infrastructure projects like All For Climate and Climate Coordination Network \n\n🌍 [Earthbasedsoul](https://twitter.com/Earthbasedsoul): wildlife biologist and visionary changemaker. Founder of Hyperchange.xyz, passionate about sailing, mushroom foraging and baking pizza.\n\n***\n\n**WHY IS SOLARPUNK NOMADISM A CLIMATE SOLUTION?**\n*This is the only application of Solarpunk Nomads to GG20. Our project is focused primarily on **Renewable Energy** and specifically Electrification and Sustainable Mobility. Other key elements of our ur activity are Climate Resilience/Adaptability and education.*\n\n🌳 Promotes sustainable mobility, electrification, renewables adoption and climate resilience through Educational Workshops, Real Life Prototypes and the building of innovative web2/web3 tools.\n\n🌳 Leverages nomadism to promote the Solarpunk vision.\n\n🌳 Helps changemakers to increase their personal Climate Change Resilience and to maintain functionality in challenging times.\n\n🌳 Helps to reduce the carbon footprint of various types of communities.\n\n🌳 Promotes minimalism and a rethinking of lifestyle toward sustainability and Climate Resilience.\n\n🌳 Has very high potential scalability inside and outside the Web3 Space.\n\n🌳 Facilitates low carbon IRL connections between changemakers, projects, events.\n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "solarpunknomads"}