We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? This is Nate Hagens’ keynote address discussing the issues from The Resilience Gathering 2019.
Co-presented with: Commonweal Resilience Project; Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere; The Fan Initiative; Post Carbon Institute.
Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.
Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.
Tags: building resilient societies
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