I’m planning to put solar panels on my bicycle cart so I can work in the wild.

I would really like to reduce my reliance on the electrical grid and have solar panels and a rainwater collection system. I also wanna have a bigger archive of music albums and movies.

I live in the most sustainable city on the planet, Gothenburg, Sweden. And one of the most environmentally friendly apartment buildings in that city. The building is a special project where they test new sustainability stuff and other cool tech and things. Not sure I’m comfortable linking to a page about the building, as it shows photos and the exact location, but I wrote more extensively about it a couple of months back so I’ll go find that comment as soon as I have time and add it here.

Other than that, I’m vegan, only buy second hand clothes, furniture, kitchenware etc. I only walk, bike and use trams. Most devices I get secondhand and use till they’re unrepairable (or at least would cost more to repair than get another secondhand one) and if I ever find like a phone real cheap before my current one is dead I give it away to family or friends that need it. There’s a lot more minor things, and probably stuff I’m forgetting.

I’ve had and have a hard life where I can’t do most of the things I want due to anxiety, so I’m extremely proud to have gotten to where I am with all the stuff above.

I make biodiesel for my farm and have as many solar panels hooked to the grid as allowed. I’m also learning how to do my own seed saving.

Well, I’m in the process of internally overboarding with 50mm PIR sheets for added insulation, added 200mm fibreglass into each floor of my house, and 150mm PIR on top of my flat roofs.

And have just had a heat pump installed, frustratingly, still haven’t quite worked out how to properly drive the thing yet so am rather cold currently.

Remote working from the countryside, taking my electric car (second hand, cheap, low range but recharged daily) to the fablab to discuss our current projects:

• A solarpunk video game (in discussion)
• A publicly funded research program about automating small scale production of several intermediate vehicles, focusing on Vhélio, an electric cargo bike. (ongoing, funded)
• A plastic press for making plastic sheets our of recycled plastic (done with 2 industrial partners, currently suspended but funded and started)

Last weekend I went to a local non-profit event of resistance against the far-right. Yesterday I got a call to help form a citizen’s list for the next municipal elections.

To think that I went as far as rural Japan to find the things that I was looking for and that they were waiting for me in my native country (France), just next to where my parents live.