Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic.
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For a Resilient Future, Put Community First
Both The Transition Towns (Transition) and Intentional Communities movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.
Happy Holidays from the Resilience team!
There will be light posting on Resilience.org during the holiday season. Regular posting will resume January 4th.
Filming the Change in New Zealand
As this year wraps up and the footage for our feature-length documentary, A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, goes away to the editor, I’m planning a trip to New Zealand to make a series of short films about all kinds of inspiring people and projects.
Paris deal: Epic fail on a planetary scale
This brand new climate deal will kick in in 2020. But is it really as ‘ambitious’ as the French government is claiming?
The Closed World and the Infinite Universe: The Metaphysics of Freedom
For the sun has long since set and the Owl of Minerva has not yet taken flight. It may be time to admit that we cannot simply choose to live the way we want to.
The Flutter of Space Bat Wings
You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think.
Recognizing our rights to live in our forests is part of the solution to climate change
The Sengwer community has been repeatedly evicted by the government’s forest guards from their forests and glades at Embobut, high in the Cherangany Hills in Western Kenya.
The Fall of the Mediterranean society during the Bronze age: Why we still don’t Understand Civilization Collapse
Imagine a team of archaeologists living three thousand years in the future.
My Woodland Path
It is a come as you are, find a convenient rock, fallen tree or flat ledge of land, where the ritual begins when you are ready.
Appealing to our Better Natures
It is hard to change learned behaviours, but change is imperative.
Selective Anti-Modernism and the Shape of Society
What happens to our broader attitudes of tolerance if we begin to identify primarily with local communities? How do we imagine a culture of both freedom and restraint?
