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.
8 May 2024. Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse – Commoning honors wholesome values and different ways of being, knowing, and acting while allowing ordinary people to assert some measure of self-determination in the face of capitalist markets and state power.
8 May 2024. Fracking Quakes Have Surged Near Fort St. John – Experts tracking a tremorous trend in northeastern B.C. notched another data point on April 13. In the early morning hours that day, a fracking-caused earthquake tripped the British Columbia Energy Regulator’s drilling shutdown switch.
8 May 2024. Zak Stein: “Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis” – On this episode, Nate is joined by philosopher and educator Zak Stein to discuss the current state of education and development for children during a time of converging crises and societal transformation.
8 May 2024. Cultivating Beauty – I think the reason that gardeners and small-scale farmers have such passion about their calling is that their deepest needs are satisfied. I am calling it beauty but it is more than that. It is fullfilling a longing.
8 May 2024. Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 2) – It is nearly impossible to conceive of any significant environmental regulation over the past four decades that has not involved the application of the “Chevron deference.”
8 May 2024. Crazy Town 87. Escaping Capitalism: How to Replace the “Logic” of Psychopaths, Pharma Bros, and Private Prisons – Capitalism ruins SO many things, from key sectors like college sports all the way down to novelties like people's health and the environment. Jason, Rob, and Asher rely on their keen insight and otherworldly investigative talents to somehow unearth a few flaws of capitalism.
7 May 2024. How Do You Protect Something Most People Will Never See? – Meet the Fab Five: A combination of visual and virtual community engagement tools using charismatic species to help win hearts and minds toward saving the ocean.
7 May 2024. Why Sociocracy Helps Organizations to Thrive – The serenity, inclusivity, and gratification experienced within sociocracy has to be encountered first-hand to be fully appreciated.
7 May 2024. Is Degrowth an Academic Field or a Mass Movement? Taking Degrowth to the People! – Degrowth, I believe, is at a critical cross road - advocates must now choose to continue to regard degrowth as an unending thought experiment, or to take degrowth into communities of ordinary folks.
7 May 2024. How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power – The nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is one group working to help communities move away from fossil fuels toward solar power.
7 May 2024. What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us – The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.