Women, Violence and Climate Change
Witnessing and documenting resilience stories in Bolivia.
Society
The Era of Pretense
The decline and fall of a civilization isn’t a single event, or even a single linear process; it’s a complex fractal reality composed of many different events on many different scales in space and time.
Neighborhood Exchange Boxes Help Geneva Reuse 32 Tons of Goods
Part art project and part social experiment with a dash of scavenger hunt, these neighborhood exchange boxes host an ever-changing catalog of free items
The Woman Who Chose to Plant Corn
Not long ago, a Diné (Navajo) friend of mine, Lyla June Johnston, sent me a one-line email: “I am not going to Harvard… I am going to plant corn.”
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.
Framespotting: Book review
What do climate change, sports teams and your family’s achievements have in common?
The Other Side of the Coin
In a deprived district of the small Belgian city of Ghent, the local Toreke coin reveals how big the transformative impact of alternative currency systems can be.
In Defense of the Commons
This article identifies some of the threats to the commons and highlights the resistance of local people.
Of Yeast, Seeds, Fire and Dancing: The Release of Playing for Time
The evidence people are reading a book you’ve written is enough to make you swoon. Like a dish you’ve spent time cooking that proves to be edible and delicious – times about a million.
Want to Change the Future? Pay Attention to the Past.
From Mandela to MLK to McKibben, history offers lessons aplenty for climate activists
Resilience Roundup – May 8
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
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…
