America’s “Worst Walking City” gets back on its feet
Oklahoma City improves life for people who walk– and reaps the benefit.
Society
How the greatest technology ever developed backfired on us
Language is the real break of humans with everything else that walks, crawls, or flies on the earth…But, as for all technologies, it has unexpected consequences.
The Seed Within Planting the Seed
The positive side of the fragmented thinking evident in our current systems is that it results in a proliferation of points of effective action everywhere the systems are breaking down. Here we look at how the permaculture strategy of stacking functions can help us engage these opportunities.
How empathy, not protest, can defeat Trump and right-wing extremism
“Protest” is not the only tool we have. If we take a minute to understand what’s actually going on in the heads of our opponents, and how they understand the unfolding of America’s polarization, we may be glad that we have more options.
An Ode to the Meat and Three
Oh, how I yearn for the return of the meat and three. The simple joy of knowing that with a quick turn off the highway, any small town in the South yielded a diner that served up the sacred trifecta — that assurance brought comfort to restless, dark nights.
Lighter posting
Due to editor vacation, there will be lighter than usual posting at Resilience.org from 21-29 March.
Ultimate Tiny House Design
The latest internal configurations shown here represent what I describe as the penultimate and ultimate passive solar and plumbing designs for a tiny house on wheels.
The Paris Climate Talks: A Nepali View
Before the COP21 meetings in Paris, I had never attended an international negotiation of any kind. Based on my experiences at the talks, I brought back to Nepal new and sometimes alarming understandings that will guide me in my continued activism for justice and climate change.
Systems Thinking for Social Change: Review
A strong message throughout this book is the idea that we are the ones who unintentionally perpetuate the very systems we wish to change
The Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity’s Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and Cooperation
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead.
A New American Dream
Jeremiah (my partner) and I don’t dream of getting rich, or owning a big house with a white picket fence and a two-car garage, or driving a fancy car.
Europe Needs a Plan B: Radical Political Change is Coming
For now, Plan B could be said to ask as many questions as it answers. What it makes clear, however, is that Europe as an economic and political structure will die unless radical change here happens fast.
