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Solarpunk - hope for the future

Solarpunk is a genre and aesthetic that envisions collective futures that are vibrant with life, as well as all the actions, policies, and technologies that make them real. We are interested in science fiction, social movements, engineering, style, and anything that inspires a future society that is just and in harmony with its ecology. You might also enjoy: solarpunkconference.com, slrpnk.net/, https://wts2.wt.social/wt/solarpunk, and https://discord.gg/3tf6FqGAJs

210k subscribers314 posts / mo in Sep 2026200 authors / mosince 2014

r/solarpunk has 210k members (+23% over the last 12 months). It gets about 314 posts a month from 200 people. Top topics: Solarpunk Futures, Vertical Farming and Gardening Adventures.

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Size and growth

How r/solarpunk has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+23%in 12 months · +3.7% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 2026209k
Growing209k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+4.0%vs Sep 2025 · −23% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026314
BusierPeaked at 721 in Jan 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/solarpunk

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Solarpunk Futures12%
  2. Vertical Farming0.3%
  3. Gardening Adventures0.2%
  4. Wind Turbine Innovations0.1%
  5. Writing Contests0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. ScienceDirect
  3. Medium
  4. The Anarchist Library
  5. LinkedIn

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Everything else about r/solarpunk

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research