How can you make your community thrive?
There’s a crucial difference between places where people thrive and a thriving community. That distinction is the critical ingredient that enables some communities to flourish while others do not.
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The economic path ahead: Four practical strategies for surviving the future
In this post, former teacher and researcher Chris Smaje reflects on the practical skills, relationships and forms of exchange he believes will be needed to navigate collapse.
World Localization Day: Helena Norberg-Hodge on rebuilding local economies
In honor of World Localization Day, Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures and pioneer of the Localization movement, reflects on decades of work as an activist and the dangers that global, deregulated corporations pose to the global economy and the environmental movement.
Richard Heinberg: Why building resilience should be our top priority
In this presentation for The Climate Dialogue Group, Richard Heinberg shares his insights into why a world of climate disruption and energy volatility demands a shift from maximizing growth to strengthening community resilience.
The architect making America’s food system legible
Architect and farmer Caitlin Taylor says communities need regional infrastructure for food security. As global agribusiness corporations contribute to ecological degradation and threaten the viability of local farms, she’s working to build a different system.
Living Spaciously in Times of Contraction
Here at the change of seasons, as we begin turning inward following the Autumn Equinox, let us then remember to honor the contraction as we practice making space in our hearts and all around us.
Open Streets Cape Town: Reconnecting the Post-Apartheid City
Not only do streets connect places, but they also connect people.
Community is Created by Filling the Cup: Talking Resilience with Lynn Benander
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
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
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
Transition is inevitable, but justice is not.
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Becca Martenson on how to increase the value of the relationships in your life
