Star makes a great point that the new Fallout show summarizes as its key thesis: "Everyone is trying to save the world, we just can't all agree on how to do it". There are a lot of people who keep trying to do more, when the best way they contribute to the solution is to sit down, do less, and think about what they've got going on in their own little mental space: listen, for a while. To quote my favorite poem, The Epitaph of Twilight: "The Whole cannot be changed, we have already lost that chance. Because the time left to us is short, we're often mistaken in our path. We cannot change the Whole, and we should alter only its parts."
I bloody love this podcast. Star was a great guest and some of her examples of western arrogance working against us were very interesting and informative.
I am lucky to have access to a fablab at work. Unfortunately, because of the location and high membership fee from anyone outside of work, we are struggling to make it a diverse and busy place.
Oof those membership fees. Totally sympathize - I realize that the machines in makerspaces and fabrication labs can be expensive, people need to be paid fairly, and rent needs to be made, but sometimes the cost of entry can be prohibitive. The one in my city has one evening a week open to the public so they can see what it's all about without having to pay for entry first, and that seems to be working out for them -A
@@solarpunkpresents Here we have free visits two days a week (officially 3 time slots, but the team will often make an exception. Those places are expensive and don't really make money. So it's either run after subsidies, or take commissions.
It's been impossible to be able to get a makerspace running in my city. If any other nerds like me exist, they're all in their homes in front of a computer screen or a pile of electronics. Robotics is getting pretty big everywhere north and south of me, but nothing ever happens here: it isn't as simple as "if you're looking you'll find it", because in America we ARE swarmed in a sea of overt individuality, with few bothering to consider the collective. Tribalism and nationalism have very deep roots here. One thing I would recommend to Star if they have that kind of say, would be to get a contact form and a centralized chat service set up for GIG community members to interact more seamlessly. Also: the search page on the website is broken. I agree that there needs to be more collaboration and information sharing, but that means people need to slow down and check out what their neighbors have going on: I know quite a few orgs I really wish would work together better and GIG is now just another one of them, focusing on their own thing.
Having some kind of centralized way to browse solarpunk / maker / climate change orgs that already exist would save some people a lot of trouble! Although there's something to be said for local start-ups that are particular to place, but I get what you mean -A
Star makes a great point that the new Fallout show summarizes as its key thesis:
"Everyone is trying to save the world, we just can't all agree on how to do it".
There are a lot of people who keep trying to do more, when the best way they contribute to the solution is to sit down, do less, and think about what they've got going on in their own little mental space: listen, for a while.
To quote my favorite poem, The Epitaph of Twilight:
"The Whole cannot be changed, we have already lost that chance. Because the time left to us is short, we're often mistaken in our path. We cannot change the Whole, and we should alter only its parts."
I bloody love this podcast. Star was a great guest and some of her examples of western arrogance working against us were very interesting and informative.
She was definitely one of our best guests. I'm hoping we can have her back for another episode sometime soon.
I am lucky to have access to a fablab at work. Unfortunately, because of the location and high membership fee from anyone outside of work, we are struggling to make it a diverse and busy place.
Oof those membership fees. Totally sympathize - I realize that the machines in makerspaces and fabrication labs can be expensive, people need to be paid fairly, and rent needs to be made, but sometimes the cost of entry can be prohibitive. The one in my city has one evening a week open to the public so they can see what it's all about without having to pay for entry first, and that seems to be working out for them -A
@@solarpunkpresents Here we have free visits two days a week (officially 3 time slots, but the team will often make an exception. Those places are expensive and don't really make money. So it's either run after subsidies, or take commissions.
It's been impossible to be able to get a makerspace running in my city. If any other nerds like me exist, they're all in their homes in front of a computer screen or a pile of electronics.
Robotics is getting pretty big everywhere north and south of me, but nothing ever happens here: it isn't as simple as "if you're looking you'll find it", because in America we ARE swarmed in a sea of overt individuality, with few bothering to consider the collective. Tribalism and nationalism have very deep roots here.
One thing I would recommend to Star if they have that kind of say, would be to get a contact form and a centralized chat service set up for GIG community members to interact more seamlessly. Also: the search page on the website is broken.
I agree that there needs to be more collaboration and information sharing, but that means people need to slow down and check out what their neighbors have going on: I know quite a few orgs I really wish would work together better and GIG is now just another one of them, focusing on their own thing.
Having some kind of centralized way to browse solarpunk / maker / climate change orgs that already exist would save some people a lot of trouble! Although there's something to be said for local start-ups that are particular to place, but I get what you mean -A
@@solarpunkpresents Right now that would be my discord but that's not very searchable.