Climate politics: The view from Washington
Legislation is not enacted in a vacuum. Successful advocacy strategies begin with understanding the political context in which proposed climate-related policies are to be debated and acted upon.
Joel Stronberg
Holding the Fire: Episode 9. Finding Encouragement in Community with Shoba Liban
Shoba is a Boorana woman who promotes health and education in pastoralist communities in Kenya. Her work, and how she lives her life, offer a model of how to continue to serve and do our work, no matter the results.
Holding the Fire: Episode 8. Navigating Multiple Crises with Alson Kelen
In this podcast we’ve heard several people speak of the grave crisis facing humanity today, but from the perspective of how Indigenous communities have been living in these crises for hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years. Yet, despite facing the most challenging forces of colonialism, they are still here, still persisting with resilient cultures. Alson Kelen, a native of Bikini Atoll, is one of the world’s few masters in the ancient art of wave-piloting.
Of settlers, colonists and doomers
Here’s how I’d parse it: being a settler is going to be an increasingly common human experience in the future. Lasch teaches us useful things about the politics of settler livelihood-making, while Ghosh teaches us useful things about how settlers must avoid becoming settler-colonists.
A Primer for Paradigm Shift: Part 2
This second article in the Paradigm Shift Series will describe several aspects of paradigm shift that are powerful tools for creating a preferred future.
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.
México Profundo: Indigenous People Hold the Keys
If the modern world is in crisis, then let us turn to its antithesis, the traditional world, in search of keys, clues, beacons.
Indigenous Gardens Cultivate Healing
To decolonize college campuses, BIPOC students, allies, alumni, and faculty are reintroducing Indigenous growing practices.
Evolving toward community-led conservation
To achieve biodiversity goals, conservation organizations need to ensure local residents play a lead role in designing and implementing initiatives.
Helen Thompson: “The Complex History of Energy and Geopolitics”
On this episode, political economist Helen Thompson and Nate discuss how energy and geopolitics have interconnected over the past century, building to the entangled political relationships we see around us today.
The Composition of Worlds: Excerpt
It is a tragic paradox that the very civilization that invented the idea of nature also became, as its values spread across a large part of the world, the instrument of the destruction of what that idea is meant to represent.
The Intransigence of Now
Modernity cannot go on, and will be the death of us if we don’t wake up to that reality.