Open Streets Cape Town: Reconnecting the Post-Apartheid City
By Marcela Guerrero Casas, Brent Smith, Project for Public Spaces
Not only do streets connect places, but they also connect people.
Tag: Building Community
Community is Created by Filling the Cup: Talking Resilience with Lynn Benander
By Lynn Benander, Ken White, Resilience.org
I think that if you haven't built connections with other people when good things are happening, they probably won't be there when bad things are happening. Community is created by filling the cup that you share with other people...
What to Tell the Neighbors: Talking Resilience with Marissa Mommaerts
By Marissa Mommaerts, Ken White, Resilience.org
We can't have resilient communities if we don't have justice. We're only as resilient as those around us, whether that be our family, our neighbors, the neighboring community, or even the neighboring country.
Review: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse by Carolyn Baker
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In her latest book, titled Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse, Baker surveys 16 relationships that she’s found to be basic to human well-being but sorely in need of tending right now.
Justice isn’t Inevitable: Talking Resilience with Ellen Choy
By Ellen Choy, Ken White, Resilience.org
Transition is inevitable, but justice is not.
Building Community
By Becca Martenson, Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity
Becca Martenson on how to increase the value of the relationships in your life
This Changes Everything. So Now What?
By Russell Evans, Transition US
Missing from the conversation are ideas that are both practical and radical.
Atamai Village: An Experiment in Resilient Community
By Jack Santa Barbara, Ken White, Resilience.org
Post Carbon Institute’s Associate Director Ken White recently visited Atamai Village, an evolving resilient community outside of Motueka, near the top of NZ’s South Island.
To Build a Movement, Build Community
By Carolyne Stayton, Ben Roberts, Resilience.org
Carolyne Stayton of Transition US, on reframing, reskilling, REconomy, and more.
More Fun, Less Stuff
By Sarah Baird, Ben Roberts, Resilience.org
Sarah tells us about life beyond consumerism, translating online community into on-the-ground action, and more...
Living the New Economy in Jamaica Plain
By Chuck Collins, Ben Roberts, Resilience.org
Chuck tells all on making the new economy real, bridging race and class divides, and more.
Taking Resilience to the Streets
By Maggie Fleming, Transition US
Transition Streets brings together small groups of neighbors and supports them in taking effective, practical, money-saving and carbon reduction actions.