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.
Jan Spencer
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.
Crazy Town Bonus Riff: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile
Investigative journalist Leah Sottile writes articles teeming with insights, and she produces and hosts podcasts filled with ah-ha moments. Rob tries not to sound like too much of a fanboy as he interviews Leah about political extremism, environmentalism, and the craft of storytelling during the Great Unraveling.
How 120 of the world’s major cities could cut transport CO2 by 22%
We found that the cities could cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by a combined 22%, without cutting residents’ quality of life measured via an aggregate, monetised metric.
Confronting DC’s gas problem
From Oct. 24-26, a coalition of ecoactivist groups, including Extinction Rebellion Northeast, Extinction Rebellion DC, or XRDC, Scientist Rebellion, and Climate Defiance, engaged in three days of nonviolent actions against the gas industry in Washington, D.C.
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch
If we look closely, there is a dissonance on display. We, the people, are being sold the lie that the values of the wealthy are the same as ours. But what’s on offer does not reflect reality.
