A feed of articles from Resilience.org, part of Post Carbon Institute’s Resilience program dedicated to building resilient communities as we transition away from fossil fuels.
19 May 2024. Yet more boondoggles: Extracting carbon dioxide from the air, mining asteroids – Many of the proposed solutions to climate change and resource depletion are really just boondoggles that benefit a few insiders
17 May 2024. Eating at the Old Growth Table – At the Old Growth table, we honor the ingredients as the wisdom keepers they are. And we humbly nod to the Ancestors who have kept our birthrights and lifeways intact.
17 May 2024. Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 3) – The ultimate question SCOTUS must answer is this: Is there ever a time when the health of democracy trumps judicial philosophies and precedents? If not now, when?
17 May 2024. Polycrisis Four Square – There’s a game you might remember from childhood called Four Square. Four kids stand in a 2×2 grid with one kid yelling out rules on how they can hit the ball—with their hands, feet, only while grunting, etc. If you fail to pass on the ball, you’re out and some other kid takes your spot.
16 May 2024. Nation-states are destroying the world. Could ‘bioregions’ be the answer? – Now, from the war-torn border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are questioning whether sustainability can ever be achieved through the framework of nation-states. They are turning to other ways of organising society based on Indigenous worldviews and practices that respect all humans and the rest of nature.
16 May 2024. Listening the New Into Being – There is no limit to what we can collectively create once we align our intention, attention, and agency on the scale of the whole.
16 May 2024. Both/and?: The Climate Majority Project and the Radical Flank – When we adapt transformatively to the climate damage that is HERE and the significantly worse climate damage that is coming, and when we do so in a manner that is inviting rather than alienating, then we make this horrific crisis real to people in a manner that merely ‘raising the alarm’ can no longer do…
15 May 2024. Tromelin Island’s Impressive Comeback – But small as it is, Tromelin Island shows that seabirds are resilient. If people can get rid of invasive predators, island restoration can work—sometimes stunningly.
15 May 2024. Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise – The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter according to society’s practical priorities and ethics.
15 May 2024. Climate activists in New England can finally celebrate ‘the end of coal’ – When we fight, we really do win. And what we win is the ultimate bulwark against climate grief and despair. We find each other.
15 May 2024. Barefoot Biodynamics: Excerpt – An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.