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Resilience Reflections

In Resilience Reflections we ask some of our contributors what it is that inspires their work, and what keeps them going.

Resilience Reflections with John Thackara

It’s taken me a long time to learn respect for the ways millions of people help each other to feed and shelter their families in resourceful ways.

November 25, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Tara Lohan

I’m driven by the belief that the stories we tell about people and places can help change the world.

November 18, 2015

There’s No Single Right Path : Resilience Reflections with Chris Smaje

There’s no single right path and there’s a lot to be learned from people following different, even antithetical, paths to your own.

October 8, 2015

Scaling This Stuff Up: Resilience Reflections with Rob Hopkins

I see so much remarkable stuff happening in so many places, and meet so many focused, committed people, that I really believe that a new economy, a new culture, is possible, indeed it is already here.

September 30, 2015

Beliefs Matter: Resilience Reflections with Erik Lindberg

Beliefs matter. So do stories. My inspiration often comes from the written word, and I’ve long been interested in writers who revel in the complexity of beliefs, understand how adept humans are at self-deception, but nevertheless provide a useful roadmap.

September 24, 2015

A Willingness to Try Again: Resilience Reflections with Brian Miller

Anyone who farms experiences setbacks on a daily basis. That rate of failure and a willingness to try again seems teach a few practical lessons in being resilient.

August 27, 2015

Mud is Good, a Resilience Reflection from Joanne Poyourow

In my work every day I’m trying to listen to Nature and intuit how to better fit into Her systems.

June 17, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Rahul Goswami

What keeps me going is the desire to put this accumulation of experience, however rude and mis-shapen it might be in parts, to good use, so that one less field becomes pavement, so that one less stream dries up, that one less meaningful cultural practice fades away in an urban slum, and so that one less barrel of oil is burned just because a way of life deems that burning as inevitable.

June 10, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Courtney White

My greatest inspirations are William Shakespeare and Aldo Leopold. The key to moving hearts and minds no matter what your field of endeavor is good storytelling.

June 3, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Claire Schosser

Resilience means having backup systems in place in case the primary systems we’ve come to depend on falter or disappear.

May 27, 2015

Robert Jensen

Resilience Reflections with Robert Jensen

My biggest setback was being born white, male, middle class, and a citizen of the United States.

May 20, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Brian Kaller

If you look at the world’s situation right now and feel a measure of grief, it doesn’t mean you’re sick, it means you’re decent. That feeling is why our species deserves to be saved.

May 13, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Adrian Ayres Fisher

What gives me hope is meeting and reading or hearing about all the people all over the world from so many cultures who are working in so many ways to help ecosystems recover…

May 6, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Sandra Postel

Don’t forget to enjoy the world, even as you’re trying to change it for the better.

April 29, 2015

Resilience Reflections with Dan Allen

I somewhat slowly learned that I was more the conductor than the builder of the farm; more the gentle nudger & potential inspiration for my family and community than the task-master.

April 22, 2015