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.
Society
The Gardens of Plenty
How can people in difficult circumstances build autonomous lives? The answer might be found in the Jardins de Cocagne: by cultivating vegetables.
Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia
Important lessons can and should be learned in our struggles to defend the land and commons from what took place and continues to take place in Bolivia.
Earthern Floors: Why, How, and Where
My first step onto an earthen floor (sometimes called a ‘poured adobe’ floor) awakened me.
Building Community from Your Front Porch
“Hi, neighbor!” After work Michelle Colussi’s husband sits on the front steps, attracting visitors young and old
Resilience Roundup – May 29
Fossil industry faces a perfect political and technological storm…
The Power of Pattern Languages
Why are most meetings, conferences and other deliberative processes so bad?
The Era of Response
The third stage of the process of collapse, following what I’ve called the eras of pretense and impact, is the era of response
Towards a New Municipal Agenda in Spain?
A new film explains why Spain’s right-wing press reflections on the elections are wrong: they fail to understand where the new leaders really come from.
Sea to Seed 2015 – A Sailboat Tour of Farming, Music, and Resilient Culture
And it appears that the islands of the Coast Salish Sea, recognizing that there is an overarching structure that has not fed and supported us, is embracing this concept to truly “over grow the system.”
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.
Community Engagement and Transition Principles
Ultimately, generosity attracts more interest than self-interest. Respect, collaboration and meaningful values are more likely to be successful in building community.
