The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing Chaos
The most urgent question today is what must be done now and in the near future to achieve major mitigation of carbon emissions.
building resilient communities
The Burden of Denial
The non-negotiable foundation of any meaningful response to the crisis of our time, as I’ve pointed out more than once here, can be summed up conveniently with the acronym L.E.S.S.—that is, Less Energy, Stuff, and Stimulation.
Pedal Power Farm Hack: Report from the Field
Instead of the top-down approach to tool development put forward by corporate agribusiness, the event this weekend prioritized local manufacturing, easily repairable and modifiable tool design, and collaborative and iterative research and development.
Buen Vivir and the Commons
I think Buen Vivir is a proposal aimed at making visible and expressible aspects of reality that are ignored by the dominant paradigm.
Towards the Permacene
We can take the next step in our evolution, a step towards the Permacene.
NERT-ing Out with the New England Resilience & Transition Network
On Saturday, March 21, fifty organizers and activists from all six New England states (plus one intrepid Californian) gathered in Keene NH to discuss resilience, Transition, and the future we want to create.
This Changes Everything. So Now What?
Missing from the conversation are ideas that are both practical and radical.
Solving Crime and Inequality, with a Seed
Is it possible for a humble seed and a patch of soil to be the catalysts for stronger, healthier, more equal urban communities?
How to Speak Transition in Spanish
Juan del Rio is the author of the recently published ‘Guía del movimiento de transición’, the first book about Transition in Spanish.
How to Design a Shared Backyard
When you live in the city or the suburbs, it can be hard to fit everything you want into a small or mid-sized yard.
Building Grassroots Independent Journalism: The Real Media Network
In a similar way that UKUncut brought corporate tax dodging to public awareness and the Occupy movement the corrupt banking system, Real Media wants to expose the hyperreal, hostile nature of the press that distorts rather than reports on the reality we live in.
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: Living Abundantly on 10%
Almost 20 years later, Dancing Rabbit (DR) is a fully functioning ecovillage with around 60 full-time members who live happily on just 10% of the resources the average American consumes.
