soilpunk

From soil +‎ -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by DIY permaculture, ecology, architecture, and fiction magazine Tractor Beam in its debut Spring 2025 issue, "Generation".^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɪl.pʌŋk/, /ˈsɔɪ̯ɫ.pʌŋk/
• Hyphenation: soil‧punk

soilpunk (countable and uncountable, plural soilpunks)

1. (uncountable) A literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.

   Coordinate terms: solarpunk; see also others

   • 2025 March, Claire Gustavson, Lana Z. Porter, Tractor Beam‎^[2], number Spring 2025 (No. 1), archived from the original on 10 November 2025:

     We started Tractor Beam because we believe our fiction shapes our future. And because we believe our future is here, on Earth, with soil beneath our feet.

     So, as the steam engine inspired steampunk and solar energy sparked solarpunk, we propose soilpunk: radical visions of hopeful futures built from the soil up.

   • 2025 October 1, Voce Narrante, “Soilpunk Fiction. Radical Futures Beyond Capitalist Dystopia”, in Politics & Activism‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 January 2026:

     Soilpunk — from soil and punk (revolt) — is an artistic movement, not merely a literary one, that challenges the defeatism of twentieth-century dystopias with a positive, virtuous vision of humanity’s future relationship with Mother Earth. It belongs not only to literature but more broadly to a constellation of collectivist, cooperative ideologies rooted in ecosocialism, fighting concretely for environmental sustainability through a constructive rather than fatalistic lens.