The Guilford food hub: Growing community resilience one lemon bar at a time
How a small Vermont town built a thriving local food system that keeps $50,000 annually in the community while creating social connection.
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Neighbors helping neighbors: Building community work exchange networks
How the authors organized a “frolic”, reviving a tradition of shared labor that builds the trust and resilience communities need.
Longing to belong: The power of a place called home
A thriving village is a collective creation. People, place, participation, creativity, and inclusion are the ingredients.
Navigating the great unraveling: How communities are building place‑based resilience
How can we prepare for a disrupted future? The growing frequency and variety of global disruptions raise the question of how communities can prepare.
Does your neighborhood need a coffee klatch?
How a tiny town in Vermont turned a simple weekly gathering into the social glue holding a neighborhood together.
Our town, our table: The community-building power of a shared meal
Can community potlucks provide a solution to America’s loneliness epidemic?
What makes a community thrive? Look to the matriarchs at its heart
What helps communities thrive? Could one key be respected, benevolent women who lead without dominating?
The Economics of Kindness: Guy Dauncey shares why we need to design economy as if life matters
In a talk on “community wealth” at the Ecovillage Findhorn, Guy Dauncey shares how kinder, community-based economies can create lasting shared prosperity for people and nature.
Creating resilient futures: Navigating ecological and civilizational contraction
A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.
Why building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianism
Vulnerable communities face growing threats: the climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions and authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility. So what can we do? We build. We shift away from reform and instead direct our energy toward creating entirely new systems.
Women face the greatest climate risks but are critical to climate action
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, yet women’s leadership and local knowledge are critical to building more resilient communities.
Social capital and community resilience: A conversation with Daniel Aldrich
Daniel Aldrich is a leading expert on how social ties shape disaster recovery, his perspective shaped by his family’s flight from Katrina and his work at USAID. In this interview, he explains why social capital is vital to strengthening communities in the face of crises.
