Resilience, impact, and learning

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

Resilience is about the capacity of a system to be able to respond to change.

Resilience in 6 icons

By Kate Raworth, Exploring Doughnut Economics

What is resilience and why do we need it?

The Heart of Urban Resilience is Trust, Not Technology

By Leo Hollis, Shareable

It is no wonder that there was a new energy in the debate concerning the question of resilience, and how to ensure that if -- and when -- such disasters arrive again, we are more prepared.

Reflections on Resilience

By Mike Jones, Sustainable Food Trust

Building resilience into our food systems is fundamental, if society is to adapt to the consequences of climate change.

New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions

By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

Batten down the hatches; fill the grain stores; raise the flood defenses. We cannot know exactly what is coming, but it will probably be nasty...

Building Thriving, Resilient Communities Guide

By Marissa Mommaerts, Leslie Meehan, Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory

More than just inspiring stories, this collection contains tools—practical, tested, hands-on ways you can begin making your community more resilient.

Resilience headlines

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•Resilience: how to change to resist change •For Land and Life: 25 stories of Indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013 •33 cities named to resilient cities network

Sustainability Sucks

By Lisa Fernandes, Bangor Daily News

Framing a project or a business as "sustainable" no longer serves us.  The dominant use of the word has ceased to mean what some of us orginally intended and, in fact, the term has been co-opted and watered down in many cases.  Labelling something "sustainable" may even alienate potential allies, or at least people with whom you might want to get along.  What do we really mean?  What do we really want?  Let's find the new language set that can help us get there.

Is “antifragile” better than “resilient”?

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

"Antifragile" is a word you can't find in the dictionary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author and student of probability and risk, coined the word because, after looking at languages across the world, he could not find a word which describes the ability to improve with stress rather than merely resist it as the word "resilient" implies.

Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement

By Dan Miner, BeyondOilNYC

As Rob Hopkins explained to a small NYC audience, the Transition movement is increasingly focused on local economic development.  Reports on localizing food production, energy conservation and renewable energy capacity set out next steps toward a new green economy.