Permacomputing

To really explain in depth what seems to be an approach of engineering and new age quackery would go too far here. I'll try to be short:

Solarpunk (the main topic of the instance where Permacomputing is at home) tries to imagine a (near and implementable) future where humans manage to live in harmony with nature, not to return some more primitive way of life of the past, but instead come up with a mixture of modern tech and traditional techniques of community land management, a lot of it copied from native land management techniques.

These techniques (often summarized under the term 'permaculture') aim towards a land management that is less energy-intensive than our current modern agriculture. This can be achieved by mimicking (or modifying) naturally existing ecosystems and turning them into food landscapes. A lot of resources in these landscapes are circled, instead of bringing in large external inputs.

A few people have taken this approach and apply it to computing, and try to redefine how we could use the internet in less energy-intensive and more human ways and work with what we have at hand.

I could have written your comment some five or six years ago, before I saw how permaculture worked and that it worked, but 'let nature do the work' is definitely a thing compared with how we got used to do stuff in the fossil fuel industrial era.