By Rhys Kelly, Permaculture Magazine
I have come to question some of the assumptions that underpin mainstream education, and to consider what can be done...to provide an education that is appropriate to the challenges of the 21st century.
By Greg Dalton, Climate One
A conversation with two former state chief executives on bridging the partisan divide and adapting to climate change.
By Howard Silverman, Solving for Pattern
In ways both scientific and pragmatic, there can be no resilience without transformation.
By Laurie Mazur, NewSecurityBeat
From the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to Superstorm Sandy, the last decade has seen an incredible array of natural disasters...The proliferation of disasters is raising awareness about our collective need to minimize vulnerability and to bounce back afterwards – our need for greater resilience.
By Laurie Mazur, NewSecurity Beat
When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast last October, it was the latest in a series of “teachable moments” about our growing vulnerability to climate change.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Years of contact with the Roma, whom we also call "Gypsies," have changed in many ways my view of the world... Perhaps, from them we can learn something useful for the hard times that are coming.
By Sherry L. Ackerman, Transition Voice
Confucius said that the health of a nation could be determined by the integrity of its homes. If we apply that standard, we’re in trouble.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Usually when I go to events I tend to be the ‘resilience guy’, or one of a handful of people who work with and think about resilience who tend to gather at the back of other events and bemoan the fact that no-one has talked about resilience yet. So I was fascinated when I saw that the British Red Cross was hosting a one-day conference on resilience, the first that I’ve been aware of.
By Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power
Many of us who have been researching collapse for a decade or more repeatedly use the word in writing, speaking, and daily conversation, but few of us have the opportunity to define it with such precision or personal experience as one finds in Dmitry Orlov’s forthcoming book 'Five Stages of Collapse: A Survivor’s Toolkit'.
By Michael Mehaffy, Nikos A. Salingaros, metropolismag.com
The word “resilience” is bandied about these days among environmental designers. In some quarters, it’s threatening to displace another popular word, “sustainability.” This is partly a reflection of newsworthy events like Hurricane Sandy, adding to a growing list of other disruptive events like tsunamis, droughts, and heat waves. We know that we can’t design for all such unpredictable events, but we could make sure our buildings and cities are better able to weather these disruptions and bounce back afterwards. At a larger scale, we need to be able to weather the shocks of climate change, resource destruction and depletion, and a host of other growing challenges to human wellbeing.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•The Decline of Communities Could Explain America's Health Problems •Understanding Resilience •We’re Hooked on ‘Growth,’ But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way •Social democracy in the age of austerity: the radical potential of democratising capital
By Asher Miller, Center for a New American Dream
If you’re a lazy pessimist, times are good. After all, you don’t have to look far to see evidence that things are tough and poised to get tougher.