Solarpunk as a way of redesigning higher education for the climate crisis

Bryan Alexander
7 min readAug 22, 2023

One well-known risk of working on climate change is depression. The topic presents so many terrible futures that dwelling in it can be mentally brutal.

In response to this grim issue, people have been offering hopeful ways of thinking about global warming. One of them became a design movement which strikes me as an antidote, and I’d like to introduce it and its implications for higher education in this post.

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Bryan Alexander

Futurist, speaker, writer, educator. Author of the FTTE report, UNIVERSITIES ON FIRE, and ACADEMIA NEXT. Creator of The Future Trends Forum.