Solarpunking Duluth (2025-04-25)

Abstract

Build it, grow it, repair it for a just future; Free food, live music, printmaking and community conversations; Join students, community activists, and local experts envisioning a relocalized Duluth. Talk with visionary Duluthians who fought the freeway and wrote a book to look beyond Duluth's collapse in the 1980s. See solarpunk posters from artists who worked on the l 00% Campaign for MNISOT A's clean energy future. Learn what solar technology has to teach us about relocalizing Duluth's energy system and keeping benefits of our energy transition local. Speak with regenerative agriculture teachers from the UMD Farm and the Eco3 Farm about their vision for place-based, hands in the dirt education for the next generation. See the visionary work of the Duluth Waterfront Collaborative and talk to people from our precious public institutions protecting and enabling public access rights to water, community, and local knowledge. Have fun with environmental artist Shanai Matteson creating your own solarpunk print (bring a tee-shirt to print on!) and send yourself a postcard from a better future. We'll pause the fiddlers and folk musicians for 30 minutes to hear Hudson Kingston, Legal Director at the environmental nonprofit CURE, talk about obstacles to our solarpunked vision and action steps to implement community & city-owned solar and bring grassroots decision-making to Duluth's energy future. And keep your energy local