Solarpunk NOW
What kind of world
do we want to live in?
Solarpunk NOW is the ecosystem for regenerative education, developed by Agnes Friedrich and Denny Ehrlich since 2023. With the Infinity Tools, Infinity Stonepaper and Beenius, and with system design methods for schools, permaculture and unfolding the future, we are part of a global community that is keen on a regenerative world.
Who is behind it
With Solarpunk NOW we want to bring regeneration into the now.
Agnes Friedrich is our visual powerhouse and a permaculture designer through and through. She brings fashion, nature and change together into a new aesthetic. Her credo: regeneration must not only work technically, it has to be beautiful, inspiring and culturally relevant.
Denny Ehrlich is our idea alchemist and social innovator. Shaped by his years in Africa, he developed the Infinity Tools in order to democratise learning radically. He builds the structures that turn wild ideas into a worldwide movement for cooperative making.
People, nature and technology in harmony. That is solarpunk. And it begins now.
Stonepaper
The sheet made from rock powder. You wipe mistakes away and think again.
Models of your ideas in bamboo and wax. This is how thoughts become matter.
Passive listening turns into real doing. Permaculture as the compass, your context as the playing field.
Workshops
Workshops of utopia.
We do not only talk about the future, we build it physically: interaction instead of lecturing, ideas straight out of people's heads and into reality.
From a forest garden project
Our method: PLAYtoGROW
From consuming to shaping
We all know this feeling. The news is full of crises and you often just feel powerless. How can we change that? How do we get out of the paralysis and into doing?
With PLAYtoGROW we hand you a method for shaping your own reality playfully. Imagine you could solve complex problems simply by playing. Whether you want to turn a dead lawn into a paradise or your office into a place of inspiration.
We use three elements for this, and they fit together perfectly. A compass for meaning. Tools for your hands. And your own life as the playing field.
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The triangle
Three elements that fit together.
The compass for meaning1. Permaculture
Many people first think of gardening or raised beds when they hear permaculture. For us it is much more. It is a lens through which we look at the world anew. It gives us the ethical why for everything we do: care for the earth, care for people, and fair sharing. This compass makes sure that our games and projects are not just a pastime, but create real, positive meaning.
The hardware2. Infinity Tools
In our digital world we have often unlearned how to really grasp things. That is why we rely on the power of the haptic. Our Infinity Tools are tools that take away your fear of the blank sheet.
Our Stonepaper made from rock powder lets you wipe mistakes away and think again. And with Beenius you build models of your ideas in bamboo and wax. Thoughts become matter and you get straight into the creative flow.
The playing field3. ContextCraft
The best ideas are of no use if they do not fit into your life. For us ContextCraft means that there are no off-the-shelf solutions. It is the art of adapting the principles radically to your own reality.
Whether you have a small balcony in the city, a classroom in Uganda or a meeting room in Berlin. We look at what is there and make the best of exactly that. Your context is the playing field on which the change happens.
Pilot project
How education can work differently.
Our project in Uganda shows it in a place where resources are scarce.
Why it counts there
Three things that change immediately.
What the Infinity Tools do in a place with scarce resources is not the same as in a German classroom.
Independent of supplies
Because the sheets are rewritable, lessons do not depend on the next packet of paper.
Mistakes cost nothing
Anyone who can wipe things away dares to write down something half-finished. That changes how people work in the classroom.
With what is already there
The children shape their surroundings with the means available on site, instead of waiting for material from outside.
Join in
Every purchase carries the initiative further.
By buying Solarpunk NOW products you support our work for regenerative education, here and in projects such as the one in Uganda.
