Resilience – Resources

A feed of resources from Resilience.org, part of Post Carbon Institute’s Resilience program dedicated to building resilient communities as we transition away from fossil fuels.


 

21 June 2022. The Living Soil Handbook – Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky.

17 May 2022. Take Heart – Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers – Earth’s weary lovers are tired, perplexed, and battered from all directions. Their hearts have so often been broken. It’s hard to go on, but it is morally impossible to quit. How do Earth’s protectors find the heart to continue the struggle? To this question, environmental philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore and Canadian artist Bob Haverluck bring ... Read more

15 March 2022. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins – What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet.

1 February 2022. Reclaiming Your Community – How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have.

26 October 2021. The Dawn of Everything – The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

8 October 2021. Think Resilience Course – Think Resilience is an online course to help you start doing something about climate change and our other sustainability challenges—starting in your own community.

8 October 2021. No bosses – No Bosses advocates for the conception and then organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called participatory economics.

14 September 2021. The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis – The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better.

27 August 2021. Use What Could Possibly Go Right? Episodes in Your Classroom – The episodes of the What Could Possibly Go Right? podcast are perfect for discussion in high school, college, and graduate-level courses. Below we have grouped relevant episodes from the first few seasons under five themes so you can quickly find the material you’re looking for:  Climate crisis Community resilience Racial & economic justice Democracy & ... Read more

21 July 2021. Scientists for Global Responsibility

23 June 2021. Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival – This is the story of power—humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others.