Practising place-fullness

By Sarah Elisa Kelly, Schumacher College

What is place? Recently, it has sparked for me a reflection on something I’ve been calling “place-fullness”.

Resilience lacks radicality. Let’s cultivate our imagination seriously

By Anthony Cara, Rob Hopkins, OuiShare

In the Transition movement, we saw resilience as a way of “bouncing forward”. We wanted to use the anticipation of these shocks to design different and better systems.

A champion of adaptation and resilience

By David Samuel Williams, Douwe van der Meer, Resilience.org

It will be interesting to see therefore whether Trevelyan will address the key areas for enabling adaptation and enhancing resilience of vulnerable communities in low-income countries to more frequent and intense climate change impacts.

Pandemic permaculture: Designing for resilience

By Alex Brooks, Permaculture Association

It did not stop it, or make it any less real or stressful but permaculture design has clearly helped smooth decision making in times of crisis and has been a wellspring of ingenuity and optimism.  “This is the time to dream, better dreams – what is the future we want to have?” encourages and invites Fran.  

Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?

By Kris De Decker, Low-Tech Magazine

Wood stoves can provide a household with thermal energy for cooking and for space and water heating. Wood stoves equipped with thermoelectric generators also produce electricity, which can be more sustainable, more reliable and less costly than power from solar panels.

Building Resilience in the Days of the Coronavirus: Lessons from the Great Depression

By Katharine Van Wormer, Common Dreams

An overview of the narratives of these resilient women reveals a pattern of resourcefulness, persistence in the face of setbacks, courage to take a stand, and through all the challenges, pride in family and community. All of them continued to be active in community life, and all of them were proud of what their children had accomplished when the walls of segregation came tumbling down.

Permaculture Projects Creatively Respond to Crisis

By Celia Ashman, Permaculture Association

What is so heartening is how permaculture design in action is proving resilient! Whether in small urban spaces or large land-based projects, designing for multi-functional uses is proving how valuable a permaculture approach can be.

Courting the Wild Twin: Excerpt

By Martin Shaw, Resilience.org

This condition of wondering is still absolutely intact in us. It is. Amongst the loaded shopping trolleys of Walmart and Tesco, the fluorescent tech hubs, flicker-screens and finger-beckoning apps, it’s still there. This raw, imaginative, holy thing. There’s an audacity to it, but it’s what we’ve always done.

As the Climate Collapses, We Ask: “How Then Shall We Live?”

By Dahr Jamail, Barbara Cecil, TruthOut

There is much we simply don’t know about the continuity of life. Perhaps the wisdom we need most is already right before our eyes in the awesome wonder of the natural world, and all we need to do is open ourselves to it.

Old Mother Forest

By Suprabha Seshan, Local Futures

If you want to survive the holocaust of planetary proportions that is upon us all, you must defend the plants, and help them, or you must get out of the way, so they can get on with their planet-healing work.

The Big Picture

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

It is only by pulling together that we can hope to salvage and protect what is most intrinsically valuable about our world, and perhaps even improve lives over the long term.

Beyond Sustainability? — We are Living in the Century of Regeneration

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium

The term regenerative development, on the other hand, carries within it a clear aim of regenerating the health and vitality of the nested, scale-linking systems we participate in. At a basic level regeneration also communicates not to use resources that cannot be regenerated, nor to use any resources faster than they can be regenerated.