Our Supernuclear experience running Island Time
2026-02-27T19:11:30.000Z
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A traveling neighborhood adventure in Puerto Rico Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Our Supernuclear experience running Island Time A traveling neighborhood adventure in Puerto Rico Jeremy Dela Rosa Feb 27 READ IN APP Greetings fellow Solarpunks, please enjoy this musical greeting from my heart to yours: Have It All Jason Mraz For the month of February in Puerto Rico, we ran a ‘ traveling neighborhood ' in collaboration with Gillian Morris from Supernuclear - a movement dedicated to spreading the joy of living with friends. Casa Chironja , a vibrant co-living community, served as our home base. 60+ Friends and collaborators gathered to host workshops, share knowledge, cook family dinners, and organize excursions together. We called this fun little experiment... Kicking off with the Vision Weekend The event began with a gathering of brilliant minds and change-makers at the Foresight Institute Vision Weekend Conference . There were talks, networking events, and pitch competitions around longevity, AI, bio-tech, cypherpunk, space innovation, and other areas of frontier science & tech. Nico represented Agartha with a talk on our ecosystem project SolarpunkOS, check it out ! Foresight Institute Vision Weekend Co-living Adventures Each week of Island Time had a central theme, and our residents organically organized relevant activities: The ‘big house' at Casa Chironja was always popping: scrambled eggs with music jams, lightning talks, morning yoga, and collaborative workshops. There was flow in the space - a living, breathing container of laughter, hugs, idea exchanges, and deep work. Family Dinner, Musical Breakfast, and Lightning Talks The community also came together to clean and beautify Casa Chironja Scrum Board FTW! The house was also our launch pad for Solarpunk excursions: Rainforest hike at El Yunque National Forest Waterfall swim at Gozolandia Hydroponic farm visits - Campo Caribe & Technoflora Earthship tour Camping in an off-grid land project near Mayaguez Beautiful street art at Yauco Sunset and double rainbow at Rincon Board Game Night Dinner at Bacoa San Juan Viejo Perhaps the most heart-warming part of being in Puerto Rico was experiencing the friendliness and openness of the locals. Kindness was common, strangers freely joined in on conversations, and sharing food was a love language. Art, music, dance, and celebration was blossoming everywhere like spring flowers. Carnaval Ponceo & Yauco Grounding fantasy in reality However, these expressions of abundance stood in contrast to other elements on the island, such as economic inequality and fragile infrastructure. Power and water outages are unfortunately a regular occurrence - in our first 2 weeks we had to be cautious and ration our cistern water. A stark reminder of the stability many of us take for granted. As we explored more of Puerto Rico, signs of economic struggle and disparities among groups was also evident - abandoned homes and crumbling roads stood in defiance amidst colossal cruise ships and luxury superyachts parked in the harbor. A result of myriad historical, monetary, ecological, and political forces at play. As much progress as we could see, it was sobering to observe the scope of challenges in front of us. But what gave me hope was witnessing the incredible work of so many brave souls: building from scratch, maintaining systems, experimenting with regenerative technology, and growing food through sustainable means. Their dreams of a better life, a better home, a better world glowed in their eyes as I listened to them. What can we do? The experience has given us a more focused lens on the kinds of problems we need to solve in order to make our mission of a global Solarpunk network a reality. At Agartha, we see the opportunity to work on tangible, basic, scalable solutions that every community requires in order to experience abundance and thrive. How can we create fertile soil to grow our food while reducing pollution? How can we grow our own healthy food predictably and at scale at the local level? How can we teach the world that it's possible to live sustainably and intentionally in community? Here are some amazing Solarpunk projects we'd like to highlight who are trying to solve these very things: Supernuclear by Gillian Morris : also check out her fantastic article in the NY Times MakeSoil by Josh Whiton : a social network for composting and regenerating our land Grand Frontier Farms by Brian Lio : open source, decentralized, hyper productive farming systems Treehouse by Winter Ku: A co-living, co-parenting community in San Francisco. Humlab & Space Zero Foundation by Daryl Vines : A research center for energy, health, and other frontier tech combined with a co-living contemplative practice center Intentional community journalism and rockbottom podcast by Christopher Morello What is Agartha doing? Growing our research database and connecting people and communities on agartha.one Running events and workshops to educate and build Solarpunk tools - some of which we'll open-source and publish soon! Doubling-down on incubating and partnering with Solarpunk products and businesses that are solving real-world problems - SolarpunkOS . Running residencies to supercharge founders and builders Creating awesome Solarpunk stories, art, music, and vibes And we're launching a podcast soon! Stay tuned for Gillian's wonderful interview! We'll have more to share on the work we'll be doing on the ground in upcoming posts. Reflecting on the Residency Stephen , a new and dear friend, shared this brilliant insight as we were reflecting on our month together. Despite all of the peak experiences we got to share (and there were many!), what ultimately stood out most was the gift of connecting with so many wonderful, inspirational, kind, and fun people. Hearts open, ideas flowing, hugs, healing, and laughter - that is the miracle of community, and what is meant for all of us here on earth. Coming up next... We are getting ready to attend: Mar 6-7: Parallel Society Mar 30 - Apr 2: EthCC Apr 5 - May 3: House of Games Join our Telegram group and let us know if you'll come hang with us! Until then, sending you love... ✨ to Agartha.One . For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid Like Comment Restack © 2026 Agartha 2171 2nd Street, Bombay Beach, California style="color: #5d59e2;text-decoration: none;display: inline-block;margin: 0 4px;">