Vivien Badaut
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Vivien Badaut
@vivienbadaut.bsky.social
Innovation and partnerships at the University of Leeds | Innovate UK specialist |
Climate education & climate actions | Degrowth | Solarpunk |
Learning to collaborate for collective action | b. 341 ppm
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Thus the need and desire for Solarpunk. To show how we can use technology to create the world we Actually want to live in rather than putting so much energy into world building the shitty worlds we're already stuck with.
It's to inspire people to fight FOR something rather than just Against.
August 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Perfectly summarised.
October 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Check out @susankayequinn.bsky.social and her work
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
100% agree on principle.
Though I am not sure this is a great idea in this very specific context - of oligarchs trying to install a fascist system.
April 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Vivien Badaut
Some were hacked to imitate Zuckerberg as well

bsky.app/profile/zeng...
In the Bay Area, pedestrian cross-walk signal voices were hacked to imitate Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and not in a good way. Here’s a sample in Redwood City:
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
But also this list of short stories by Grist - really good quality solarpunk content here!

grist.org/imagine2200-...
Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: The 2025 collection
Grist's 2025 climate fiction contest celebrates stories that imagine futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive.
grist.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Among other gems shared there, there is this substack
solarpunkstories.substack.com
SolarPunk Stories | Substack
Let's make a deliciously sustainable future together. Click to read SolarPunk Stories, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
solarpunkstories.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
… which brings me to realising that Prof Paul Chatterton does not seem to be on Bluesky (yet?) so I am unsure pf who exactly I tagged! Apologies :)
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The meeting (obviously ) covered at lengths housing Co-operatives, and it seems that Leeds is a hotspot - which is both reassuring and worrying given that it is very very marginal here - LILAC is a great example, now scaling that up 10,000 times would kinda beginning to address the issue…
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Cycling everywhere in Leeds is possible, but I would be very hesitant in putting my 3 year old on my bike on my commute along the streets - or I would take very different routes for safety.
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
But more importantly - here, the question of mobility beyond the dominant car paradigm has been central to the conversation - with all the inclusivity problems that (poorly executed) public transports and infrastructure can cause.
Cars are still associated with safety, and as a cyclist I can attest
April 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Interestingly for this group of radicals, the use of technology as a one-to-many communication device was not much questioned - everything streamed on Instagram Live, mentions of Facebook and WhatsApp as the tools to unlock unfettered communication. There is a lot to educate on!
April 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM