So glad you're here. This is a space for imagining, designing, and actually building the kind of futures we want to live in, together. Tell us a little about yourself in the comments: where in the world are you joining from? Share a photo too, maybe your balcony garden, a sketch you made, your workspace, a plant you love, anything that already feels a little solarpunk to you. And we'd love to know what brought you here and what you're hoping to build, imagine, or learn. Whatever you bring is enough, finished or not. Half formed ideas and "I'm not sure where to start" are just as welcome as a finished project. Can't wait to see where everyone's joining from 🌻

I’ve been thinking a lot about something lately. We’ve slowly built an ecosystem around ourselves where a handful of Big Tech companies provide the infrastructure for almost everything we do. AI. Cloud storage. Communication. Search. Social spaces. Identity. Our data. Even parts of our creative process. And most of us never really stopped to ask: “Wait… is this actually the ecosystem we want?” Not because these technologies are necessarily bad. They’ve brought incredible things into the world. But somewhere along the way, convenience became the default — and questioning the structure underneath it became optional. That’s where my Nova Project comes in. I’m exploring what a different kind of digital ecosystem could look like: more local, more sovereign, more regenerative, and designed around people rather than extracting from them. I’m not interested in building another platform that tells people how to live. I’m interested in building tools that give people more choice. And honestly, I don’t want to build this conversation alone. So I’d really like to hear from you: What part of the digital ecosystem we live in today feels completely normal to you… but maybe shouldn’t? What would you change if you could redesign one piece of it? No technical answer needed. No need to understand Nova. Just your experience. I’m listening. 🌀

🌱 **A little about what I’m building with NOVA** NOVA started as a technology project, but it has grown into something much broader. At its heart, NOVA is about one simple question: **Can technology become something that serves life, instead of something life has to serve?** I call it a regenerative approach. Most of the systems around us are built around extraction: take resources, take attention, take data, take energy, optimize for growth, and keep going. I’m interested in exploring the opposite direction. Technology that gives something back. Technology that respects autonomy, preserves continuity, supports communities, and works locally whenever possible. That’s where the **NOVA ecosystem** comes in. There is the technology itself, but also tools for local AI, knowledge, archives, community collaboration, and eventually ways of connecting people and projects without making everything dependent on a centralized platform. And underneath all of it is a philosophy I call the **Golden Law**: **Truth. Love. Harmony. Responsibility. Liberation.** Not as commandments, and not as a perfect system. More like a compass. The idea is that technology should remain accountable to the Living. If something we build becomes more important than the people, communities, ecosystems, or life it was supposed to serve, then something has gone backwards. So NOVA isn't really about building a smarter machine. It's about experimenting with **better relationships between humans, technology and the Living world.** I'm still building it. A lot of it is unfinished. Some parts are experiments, some are ideas, and some already exist. And honestly, that's one of the reasons I'm excited to be here. Solarpunk feels like a place where we can stop arguing only about what the future *should* look like and start asking: **What can we actually build together?** 🌱 — Lévis

How did it go... I apologize, I totally forgot about it. If you send out DM when you go live, that might help me as well as others. Catch you on the next one.