How to turn neighborhoods Into hubs of resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
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Rewilding the Imagination
It can’t be like “We need a policy for a rewilded childhood”, because we could be waiting forever, and that ain’t going to happen. And we haven’t got time to wait forever I don’t believe. So it’s what do we all do to rewild our own family, our own community, our own school?
Recapturing the Inverted Systems of Our Civilization
What is concerning is that it is ever more apparent that many of our civilization’s structural systems, many of which resemble the pyramid archetype, seem more and more dysfunctional or “captured”.
Other than Mother? The Parenthood Decision with Resilience in Mind
I’m happy to continue to have conversations about the parenthood decision and ‘otherness’ and to offer spaces for others to meet, because it strikes me that these conversations are at the heart of the sort of resilience we need and are increasingly likely to need in the coming decades – and because it’s the least I can do for the biosphere.
Preparing for the Next Movement Moment
We can’t predict where and when the next movement moment will start. Fortunately, help has shown up to steer us away from predictable mistakes when the moment comes.
In Berlin, a Model for Creative and Affordable Housing
Berlin’s creative culture is under tremendous pressure as real estate speculators from around the globe buy up apartment buildings. But a culture of resistance and grassroots revitalization is putting a brake on gentrification, helping to protect the residents’ right to their city.
How Might 21st-Century Movements for Radical Social Change Win?
This talk introduces a book project titled Taking Power or (re)Making Power: Re-Imagining Movements for Radical Social Change and Global Justice, presenting the culminating case study — the “Global Climate Justice Movement.” The project surveys the history of the new movements for radical social change of the 21st century, contrasting them with the great social revolutions of the 20th.
Cultural Capital: Part 2
We call this regenerative mentoring. There’s a mentoring process to this where you’re either in a peacemaking relationship or you’re mentoring towards that. Some people don’t feel like they have a connection to others, and so you have to really give them some surplus — you have to get them on board and bring them into the game again.
The Antifragile Property Series Podcast: Part 1
“There’s a lot to worry about out there in the world right now – climate change, GMOs, the financial system, debt, terrorism, disease, water insecurity, a fragile food system. What if you could insure yourself against some of these worries?
Clean Energy and the Environment: Victor or Victim in a Most Uncivil War
What better way for Democrats to use their leverage than pushing back the Republican assault on federal clean energy and environmental programs and policies?
Ancestor, What Did YOU Do at the Time of the Great Transition?
Dear Descendant, once upon a time, as climate change accelerated in the 21st century, the recognition that everyone was in the same boat with a hole at the bottom jolted some of your ancestors awake.
The Caring Economy: Well-Being and the Invisible Heart
Economics should recognize that unpaid care work—e.g., caring for children, for elders, for the infirm—provides economically valuable services that contribute both to living standards and to the Gross Domestic Product.
