Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence: Review
…[A]n unfortunate side-effect of the explosion of information that the Internet has provided us with is the even further erosion of the signal-to-noise ratio.
building resilience
US Needs White House Climate Change Council to Protect Lives and Economy
With the Zika virus spreading in Florida, it’s timely to consider how we will prepare for our increasing real-time manifestations of climate change.
There’s No Single Right Path : Resilience Reflections with Chris Smaje
There’s no single right path and there’s a lot to be learned from people following different, even antithetical, paths to your own.
Progress in an Uncertain World
Strong Towns vision is heavy on experimentation and small-scale risk-taking (with potentially great rewards). It is heavy on civic engagement and grassroots action. And it is notably light on technocratic policy interventions: to the extent we talk about policy, it’s often about what policy makers should NOT do, not what they should.
Resilience Reflections with Courtney White
My greatest inspirations are William Shakespeare and Aldo Leopold. The key to moving hearts and minds no matter what your field of endeavor is good storytelling.
Can an Olympics Fight Inequality?
As someone concerned about inequality, what would it take for you to support the Olympics in Boston in 2024?”
Resilience Reflections with Brian Kaller
If you look at the world’s situation right now and feel a measure of grief, it doesn’t mean you’re sick, it means you’re decent. That feeling is why our species deserves to be saved.
Resilience Reflections with Sandra Postel
Don’t forget to enjoy the world, even as you’re trying to change it for the better.
‘Epic Fail’: Feminism and Ecological Crises
Homo sapiens’ domination of Earth is coming to an end, not in some imagined science-fiction future but as the result of today’s processes of resource extraction and waste generation.
The Mariner’s Rule
One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all.
Crossroads on Global Infrastructure
Plans by the world’s most powerful countries are well underway to spend trillions of dollars for new mega-infrastructure projects to rejuvenate the global economy.
Atamai Village: An Experiment in Resilient Community
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.
