The Invention of Gender Roles: Division by Design

Kevin R. Nelson, Resilence.org

Far from exonerating my gender for its role in sustaining patriarchy, I insist that men must now take the lead in dismantling it—decisively and without delay. But patriarchy is not the only destructive force we face. Interlocking ideologies—racism, classism, colonialism, transphobia—continue to shape our world, and most people, in some way, still participate in sustaining them. This work demands collective responsibility from people of all gender identities, because these systems harm us all.

Future Sustainable Neighbourhood

Tony Buck, Resilience.org

We may be very smart creatures, but we are still fundamentally animals in a landscape. If modernism ever de-complexifies, as many think it will, like all civilizations in the past, we would be smart to set in place now the infrastructure, skills and knowledge we’ll need to thrive – together.

The constitutional republic in danger

Let us call to those better angels of our nature which have expanded democracy and justice over these 249 years, working in the places where we live to organize power and forward the ideas that will make a just and sustainable future. That is the ground for a New American Revolution.

The European Commission’s Dangerous Step Back: A Greenwashing Gift for Corporations

Rebecca Lison, Resilience.org

In a move that threatens to undermine years of progress toward environmental transparency, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has recently decided to withdraw the much-anticipated Green Claims Directive. This directive, which aimed to hold corporations accountable for misleading sustainability claims, was an essential step toward ensuring that companies align their actions with the urgent need to protect our planet.

How to Dress and Undress your home

Before the Industrial Revolution, people added a temporary layer of textile insulation to either the interior or the exterior of a building, depending on the climate and the season. In cold weather, walls, floors, roofs, windows, doors, and furniture were insulated with drapery and carpetry. In hot weather, windows, doors, facades, roofs, courtyards, and streets were shaded by awnings and toldos.

How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt

Rob Hopkins, Resilience.org

So, when people ask me for one thing they can do to bring about a more positive future, I suggest they seek out stories of real change that are happening right now. I’m talking about local food projects, renewable energy projects and neighbourhoods coming together to create their own solutions.

Wild Civilization and the Poet-Farmer

Samuel Alexander, Resilience.org

The archetypal, self-governing citizen in SMPLCTY is the poet-farmer (or poet-carpenter, etc.), who lives simply in a material and energetic sense, contributes to necessary economic production and community governance in non-hierarchical conditions, and who otherwise explores the good life through creative activity and aesthetic experience.