Find ways to reduce your energy consumption:

• Buy higher quality clothes, ideally less imported.
• If you can, plant vegetables and stuff that you can eat or shop at local farmer’s markets.
• Reduce water use
• Cut back on things that use plastics in abundance

Something simple I had done was that I invested in USB powered grow lights for my indoor plants, as the apartment I had a few years ago was in the worst position for getting light. If you have a good window, feel free to set up something small for now, some herbs or even flowers for just adding a bit of nature into your life. People mentioned the different options for composting, which I agree with as well. The idea of setting up portable solar panels if you can afford them, for little stuff is a good idea too. It is really up to you, what you feel you can do and start with! A big part also is that solarpunk isn’t just at home, it also is in the community.

• Fermenting food instead of throwing it away.
• Using renewable energy suppliers if they are available in your apartment.
• Using Bokashi to compost.

I wanna start foraging, especially because it’s mulberry season where I live, but my tiny apartment kitchen is tiny, and I don’t have nearly enough space for all the gear to preserve the foods, nor the freezer space. What I need is a community kitchen, where I can borrow space and equipment. Shit, I might need to start another post on the community kitchens and/or their being analogous to tool libraries and communal workshop space.

I had an idea I wanted to share, in my town we have food coops, which is small group of people who band together to get local produce from farmers, with a focus on it being sustainable too so I‘ve seen they even go with bikes to get it. Though you have to contribute in work too, but it‘s probably better than the stuff in supermarkets environmentally.

I heard about this and thought about joining but been too shy so far, maybe this will finally push me to go apply.