u/SkittlesRobot

Hi, I am fantasizing the concept of public, free, periodically located structures that offer refuge from the extremes of climate. With worsening heat waves and bitter winters common moving forward, providing water, shade, temperature control, etc could be a matter of survival. What offerings should such a shelter provide? I want it to be in-line with the aesthetic and philosophy of solar punk so interested to hear ideas. In my view, solar punk party means constructing infrastructure for the good of people for greater sustainable alignment with their (now changing) environment. Ideally it would be powered by sustainable energy and could even serve to offer volunteer services like community courses. If we had a template for such a structure and placed them every X miles, there could be a network of these facilities serving the local community. This is a hypothetical at present, just considering ideas, thank you for inputs.

Consider a theoretical learning institution (picturing either a skill-share community resource with small-scale informal courses or a full-on publicly-funded free university more akin to a community college) that exists primarily to enable transfer and capacity building of solarpunk-relevant knowledge. What courses would such a resource offer? Some basic example ideas below to get started:

1	Principles of solar energy and practical implementation and maintenance of solar infrastructure  
2	Permacultural design and circular resource systems  
3	Human-centered urban design and transit networks  
4	Biodiversity and urban coexistence   
5	Economics of socially supportive resource structures (e.g. pay-what-you-can cafes, co-ops, etc)  
6	Community welfare and societal health