Resilience – Articles

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 March 2024. Degrowth, Denis Villeneuve and Alien Languages: A brief response to Eoin McLaughlin – Degrowth has been described even by its proponents as a 'missile word' – an idea so shocking and provocative that it is difficult to co-opt (though there are many who try). With the release of yet another poor critique of degrowth, this time authored by Eoin McLaughlin in The Conversation, it is clear that the knee-jerk hostility which faces degrowth is also a problem of understanding amidst uncertainty.

19 March 2024. DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals For Green Growth – As violent militias rampage across the country, activists in the DRC are urgently calling for a green transition that puts justice first, not new revenue streams, and that dismantles colonial exploitation once and for all.

19 March 2024. How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism – Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?

18 March 2024. Letter From The Farm | A Flamenco Approach to Rural Resilience – The story of El Manzano can evoke a ‘flamenco’ approach to rural resilience, which is rooted in the living reality of peoples’ stories, and not in empty political frameworks and academic foresights.

18 March 2024. Romantic anti-capitalism: an interview with Michael Löwy – What is the “rational kernel” of the romantic world-view? It is a social and cultural protest against the modern industrial capitalist civilisation, in the name of past, pre-capitalist, pre-modern values.

18 March 2024. Samantha Sweetwater: “Life at the Center” – On this episode, thought leader and ceremonial guide Samantha Sweetwater joins Nate to share her journey through mysticism and guiding others through their own unique spiritual paths.

18 March 2024. What the Anthropocene’s critics overlook – and why it really should be a new geological epoch – Less than a century ago, processes that began during the Industrial Revolution swung into overdrive. That’s the Anthropocene as an epoch. It’s real, it’s already made geology, and it won’t go away.

18 March 2024. Covas do Barroso: Local Resistance to Europe’s Lithium Race – Lithium may be at the heart of the green transition, but mining the metallic element also causes damage to natural environments. In lithium-rich Portugal, modest rural communities join national outrage against governmental deals bypassing local economies and threatening livelihoods.

18 March 2024. Attending to the sacred – This is the formidable challenge of our times – to create limits and localism while not creating arbitrary rules of social exclusion.

15 March 2024. Creating a calm, regenerative oasis outside the metropolis of Sao Paulo – Desperto – Centro de Culturas Regenerativas is a regenerative agriculture initiative situated in Vale do Paraiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

15 March 2024. We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy – Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.