The Winter Solstice
Tomorrow a new cycle begins. I wish renewed vigor for all of us. I wish for fresh insight with which to see our challenges.
Editorial Seasonal Holiday 23 December to 2 January
Season’s Greetings from the Resilience.org editorial team!
Your hard-working editors will be taking a much-needed holiday break from 23rd December to 2 January.
Regular posting will resume 2nd January.
The cooling, cleansing power of canopies – urban tree planting takes root
From the London borough of Hackney and Barcelona in Spain, to Freetown in Sierra Leone, increasing the number of trees in cities has been shown to be an important, low-cost, and rapid way to cut pollution, improve health and well-being, and make cities less vulnerable to extreme weather.
Reflections on dynamics of strategy in degrowth
The Degrowth & Strategy volume makes a case that, to bring about shared goals of eco-social transformation, we need to collaboratively bring together, honor, reflect critically on, and deliberate about a wide mix of approaches.
3000-year-old solutions to modern problems | Lyla June | TEDxKC
In this profoundly hopeful talk, Diné musician, scholar, and cultural historian Lyla June outlines a series of timeless human success stories focusing on Native American food and land management techniques and strategies.
Responses to Power in a Depleted World
Let the billionaires go off to their fitting ends. Maybe we can think more clearly without all the noise and stress they generate.
Review: King of Hope by Kim Conklin
Kim Conklin’s King of Hope is a dark and heavy first novel about a town plagued by nuclear waste.
Prefigurative Societies in Movement
Something new is happening – something new in content, depth, breadth and global consistency. Societies around the world are in movement.
Peak US Oil Production Looms as the Domestic Shale Boom Ends
Finite resources are real constraints that no magical thinking or predicting by the industry can overcome.
Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India
Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.
Biodiversity: Targets and lies
Target-setting is very different from implementation and achievement. Voluntary agreements are very different from ones which are legally binding and enforced.
Solarpunk: Radical Hope
Folks refusing dystopia, repairing and radically re-imagining their lives and communities together, and beginning to enjoy and spread the resulting benefits today as they carve a path towards tomorrow = Solarpunk. That’s what hope looks like.
