And why is that desirable?
This is ultimately a post about values. More specifically, it presents a technique by which to get at people’s (or your own) values. Values are important, because they drive much of what we do:
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Light Posting November 17th through December 6th, 2023
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting on Resilience.org from 17th November through 6th December, 2023. Regular posting will resume on 7th December, 2023.
Primer for Paradigm Shift
Paradigm shift means creating uplifting alternatives to capitalism and the consumer culture in every way possible. Those individuals and groups who are leading the charge are called upon to share what they are learning. This is not a time to be shy.
The miniaturization of death: How technology has tipped the balance away from state power
Violence is coming in smaller and smaller packages these days.
Graphite: A new energy economy resource is suddenly harder to get
More and more countries are becoming stingy about what natural resources they will ship abroad. That has implications for new energy economy products and industries.
How Community Energy Initiatives Can Be an Effective Tool for Degrowth
Financial resources, both local and international, should support decentralized, citizen/community-led initiatives rather than large-scale private renewable energy projects that do not align with degrowth principles. It is time to prioritize community and the environment over profit in the energy sector.
Living in a World-in-Crisis: Thinking Beyond Catastrophism. Part 1
Resilience here, then, is not the naïve faith in riding the storm and putting the world back together more or less as it was, issue by issue, but recognising the necessity to fundamentally reorganise and reorient human society in ways that can allow human flourishing and ecological sustainability in symbiotic and mutually supportive relations of reciprocity and regeneration – and in a multiplicity of ways.
An elegy in prose for Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd’s spirit left his body, in the wee hours of Saturday, October 7, pulling out the roots of him from thousands, tens of thousands, of people – me included.
Pincushion America revisited: The legacy of fracking on our drinking water
The toxic legacy of fracking is now making itself visible in our drinking water. Expect many more stories of contamination in the coming years.
Grounds Keeper of the Earth: How Campuses Can Transition to Organic Land Care
Seattle University has been a leader in pesticide-free and organically maintained landscape and land care since 1986.
Climate change and the hidden water cost of the Panama Canal
The critical importance of water transportation is coming into focus as lack of water cripples river and canal navigation.
Plenitude
My garden is a plenum – a spatially continuous living community which includes me, its caretaker – and I intuitively experience it as such while simultaneously perceiving a visual panorama, an audible space filled with the music of cicadas, crickets and birds as well as an expanse of floral perfume.