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Menu Resilience Building a world of resilient communities Get Resilience delivered daily Leave this field empty if you're human: Homepage News & Views All Recent Articles Energy Economy Environment Food & Water Society Inspiration Featured Voices Learn Fundamentals Online Course PCI Publications Practical Tools Resources Act Think Resilience About About Resilience Team FAQs Submission Guidelines Meet Some of Our Supporters Contact Donate The Transformative Power of Water: Flood Survivor/Activist Katherine Egland Fights the Struggle for Human Dignity By Kerri McLean, Resilience.org Around the world, across cultures and time, water has manifested itself as both life-creating and life-destroying. Never static, it constantly changes and transforms those in its wake. This is profoundly true for Katherine Egland. November 13, 2020 The Kind of Heroes We Need to Actually Save the Planet By Rena Priest, YES! magazine November 13, 2020 What If? there was a daily imagination lesson? By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog November 13, 2020 LATEST ARTICLES How Paris’s public water supply is beating Covid By Anna Polonyi, Open Democracy Within a year of being created, Eau de Paris had cut 30 million euros in operating costs and brought the price of water down 8%. Accounting for inflation, a cubic meter of water in Paris today still costs less than it did a decade ago. Farms for Tomorrow: Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens Roxbury Farm By Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens, Farms for Tomorrow Jean-Paul has dedicated much of his career to educating the next generation of farmers. In 1995, he was part of the original CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance of Farmer Training). Aggregate green growth is a mirage: we need to take a more scientific approach to societal wellbeing By Caroline Whyte, Feasta In other words, it is impossible, within the time constraints that we are now facing, to decouple GDP growth from environmental damage strongly and deeply enough to be able to adequately repair that damage. Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970 — and if emissions are not cut, it will heat 5 to 7 times as much. IEA: Wind and solar capacity will overtake both gas and coal globally by 2024 By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief Wind and solar capacity will double over the next five years globally and exceed that of both gas and coal, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report. Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery By Monica Evans, Landscape News Cloud forests are born of very specific geographic and climatic features: they usually form partway up mountains, when moisture-laden air currents from surrounding lowlands and bodies of water are forced upward and then cool and condense as they rise, creating persistent fog or cloud cover in a particular area. ‘Junk Agroecology’ By Alberto Alonso-Fredejas, Delphine Ortega-Espès, Martin Drago, Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Transnational Institute The promotion of ‘junk agroecology’ initiatives opens up the possibility of greater greenwashing of socially and environmentally destructive forms of production, and more deeply entrenches the unjust dynamics which have led to the current crises. Care as Commons: A Brief Introduction By Thomas Allan, Resilience.org A broader political economy of care can make visible the interdependence and reciprocity that are fundamental parts of our social world. The Art of the Legal Hack, as Pioneered by Janelle Orsi By David Bollier, David Bollier blog SELC has advised over 1,500 grassroots groups, and when necessary, initiated policy initiatives to try to change laws and regulations that otherwise impede collective ownership and commoning. Why Do We Struggle? For the Shared Enjoyment of Life and Caring For the Rest of Nature By Sirio López Velasco, Resilience.org In 2020 I have frequently found that those who campaign to overcome capitalism from a socialist perspective (in my case, with an ecommunitarian vision) are so pressured by the urgencies of daily action that they lose sight of the final goal of the struggle. A Small Farm Future: Could it happen in Wales? By Carwyn Graves, Food Manifesto Wales We have here the ambitious groundwork, global in scale, for exactly the case for a small farm future that Smaje set out to write. Where’s the Political Leadership We Need? By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee We face big transitions requiring sacrifice and hard truths from the top. Instead our leaders act like used car salesmen. Load More EDITOR’S PICKS No Matter Who Wins By Nate Hagens, Institute for the Study of Energy and our Future No matter who wins the election this week we are on the cusp of major change which will require both top-down and bottom up interventions and cultural emergence. I hope you can play a role. Debt, Land and Money, From Polanyi to the New Economic Archaeology By Michael Hudson, Michael Hudson blog Behind today’s ‘free market’ advocacy is the power of financial wealth to appropriate the political, fiscal and central planning role that Polanyi, Marx and other socialists hoped to see expanded in the hands of democratic government. ONLINE COURSE Think Resilience Lesson 16: Globalization By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute Think Resilience Lesson 6: Political & Economic Management By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org Think Resilience Lesson 5: Pollution By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org Think Resilience Lesson 4: Depletion By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org FEATURED RESOURCES Sitopia By Carolyn Steel, Penguin Press We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos - food; topos - place). Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey. The Reindeer Chronicles By Judith D. Schwartz, Chelsea Green Publishing In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. MORE ARTICLES Economy Energy Environment Food & Water Society There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis. By Mark H. Burton, Steady-State Manchester Returning to the All Party Group on the Limits to Growth, and practical politics, the task is to promote enactable short-range policies that take us towards a post-growth future. These need to be transformational in effect... Resources for a Better Future: Development By Vandana, Uneven Earth For development to truly deliver on its promise—the betterment of life for all—it must engage a multidimensional understanding of poverty. Replacing rentier capitalism is one of the defining challenges of our age By Christine Berry, Open Democracy In today’s somewhat bleak political landscape, we need to get serious about building strong counterweights to the power of extractive rentier capital. Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’ By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future Well … don’t get me wrong … honestly, I’m with the left, and I’m with the agrarian renegades. But on just a few significant points I’m also with the mainstream economists and the sceptics of cornucopia. Modern Civilization and Its People Without Spirit By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org Communality, defined by P. Kropotkin (1907) as mutual aid institutions, was present throughout tribal organization, the village commune, the guilds, the city of the Middle Ages, and today it remains a focus of resistance in communities of indigenous cultures and cooperatives (rural, urban and industrial). Eco-productivism: Ecological transition is a political issue By Louison Cahen-Fourot, Degrowth.de No one would deny that it is possible to make capitalism ...