A Camp Amid the Ruins
Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015…
Society
The Day When Change Will Come
This is the vicious circle of capitalism, which is speeding up the destruction of the commons, driven by a world economy based on consumption and growth.
The Battle with Bullshit
One of my pleasures over the holiday period has been reading The Baffler‘s third book-length collection of articles, No Future For You.
Inventing the Roads of Tomorrow
Have you ever driven down a dark road, in the middle of the night, looked to your right or left, and noticed how beautiful the road’s lines were?
Retrieval, Resilience, and Wild Planning
Resilience must be a central concept for retrieval – that is, for the capacity of communities to bring something humanly habitable out on the other side of the unpredictable stresses and dangers to which climate change will (now unavoidably) expose us.
Review: Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
Unlike most books on the subject, which try to convince people using science, Don’t Even Think About It examines why the science doesn’t convince people.
The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality
To misuse a bit of prose from Charles Dickens, it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times, but I know very few people who will object when, a few hours from now, 2014 gets dragged off to the glue factory. This has not been a good year for most people in the United States.
Why We Farm
The giddy delight in admiring our equipment shed, the morning sun throwing a splash of color through the Victorian stained glass window in the tack room…The barn at 3 in the morning as Daisy calves….And still we get the question?
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
Detailed summary of this important new book on how to combat climate change.
Happy Holidays from Resilience.org !
We’ll be taking a holiday break and posting lightly over the next few days.
Review: The Great Transition – The New Paradigm
Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.
Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
As it happens, the planet’s changing climate now demands that we summon up the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe with it some portion of the Age of Capitalism as well).
