soilpunk.
A literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.
Meaning & usage
A literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.
Where this word comes from
From soil + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by DIY permaculture, ecology, architecture, and fiction magazine Tractor Beam in its debut Spring 2025 issue, "Generation".
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