Light Posting from September 27th to October 15th
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
There will be light posting from September 27th through October 15th due to editorial holiday. In the meantime, why not sign up for our webinar, We Nee…
From Sunset Strip to the Sierra Madre to a Nobel Nomination
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
Susan Eger was more adventurous than your average UCLA anthropology student in 1975 – even for a psychedelic-savvy follower of Carlos Castañeda. But a chance meeting with a fellow adventurer would set her life course in ways she could never have imagined. Nearly half a century later, with three grown indigenous children, a Mexican nonprofit that’s become a living institution and a Nobel nomination to contend with, Susana Valadez, as she is now known, is on fire with the certainty of one who is living her destiny.
From Encampment to Ecovillage at Standing Rock
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
When LaDonna Brave Bull Allard speaks these days, it’s a wake-up call to a lost nation. The founder of the first resistance camp at Standing Rock, which was Sacred Stone, she challenges us to step up to the work of transforming our culture of death.
Women of Standing Rock: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
All of a sudden, we’ve given our power over to an entity that doesn’t deserve our power. We must take back that empowerment of self. We must take back our own health care. We must take back our own food. We must take back our families. We must take back our environment.
How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies
By Tracy L. Barnett, YES! magazine
Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.
Campesino Past, Biodynamic Future
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
Our objective is that, for whatever reason, biodynamics can really become the new agriculture. The objective is to gradually permeate the fields, the soils and the minds of the farmers.
Regenerating the Human Story
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
“You know, what’s really wonderful about this is that it’s not just about regenerative agriculture, It’s about regenerating the human story; it’s about regenerating the way that we look at health, food, economics, human relationships — even our own history.”
Restoring the Earth, One Camp at a Time
By Liora Adler, Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
In 2017 John founded the Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a mass movement aimed at healing the Earth while healing ourselves — meanwhile, turning around runaway climate change. Sequestering the excess carbon in our atmosphere on a massive scale is one of the last remaining solutions to staving off the worst effects of climate change.
Sovereign Sisters in Lakota Lands
By Tracy L. Barnett, Cheryl Angel, Esperanza Project
Now I understand that sustainable sovereign economies are needed to replace the system we support with our purchasing power, and our ancient teachings have all of those economies passed down in traditional families.