This is another one of my older photobashes, this time centered around passive greenhouses.

The first time I saw an article about this design I was amazed I’d never considered how poorly standard greenhouses fit our use case up here. I worked on a farm for years growing up and we heated about half of them at least through December. Single or double ply plastic sheets and corrugated white plastic siding nailed to stick frame walls on the ends. Garage doors only on either end. I can’t imagine how much they cost to heat. It’s that one-size-fits-all-just-burn-more-gas approach I think a solarpunk society should reconsider wherever it finds it.

I've done more research since working on this picture and I put together a more thorough write-up and collection of links here:

https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:winter_greenhouses

I think if I was going to do this art from scratch I'd follow walipini designs (with steeper glass windows) more than the passive greenhouses designs used in more temporate places and in big industrial ag operations. The current art is sort of halfway between walipini and a passive greenhouse.