Skip to content
resilience

Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.

resilience

Donate Subscribe
Resilience is a program of the nonprofit organization Post Carbon Institute.
resilience
Subscribe
  • Topics
    • All Latest Articles
    • Energy
    • Economy
    • Environment
    • Food & Water
    • Society
    • Featured Topics
  • Take Part
    • Get Started
    • Online Course
  • Podcasts
    • What Could Possibly Go Right?
    • Crazy Town
    • Power
  • About
    • About Resilience
    • Fundamentals
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Commenting Guidelines
    • Contact
resilience
Donate Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Environment
  • Food & Water
  • Society
  • More ▼
  • Topics
    • All Latest Articles
    • Energy
    • Economy
    • Environment
    • Food & Water
    • Society
    • Featured Topics
  • Take Part
    • Get Started
    • Online Course
  • Podcasts
    • What Could Possibly Go Right?
    • Crazy Town
    • Power
  • About
    • About Resilience
    • Fundamentals
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Commenting Guidelines
    • Contact

the natural world

The Great Thinning and How it Impacts the Imagination

July 17, 2020February 27, 2019 by Rob Hopkins

Our imaginations are rooted in the natural world.  They formed in the natural world.  They took their metaphors and similes from the natural world.  It’s from the natural world that we thought that something might be strong as an oak tree or as fragile as a reed.

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags Communication, sixth great extinction, the natural world Leave a comment

Remembering Doug Tompkins

December 15, 2020December 9, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

We at Post Carbon Institute heard today with profound sadness of the sudden passing of Doug Tompkins—one of the world’s foremost conservationists and a great friend and supporter of our work and that of many other environmental organizations.

Categories Environment Tags conservation, Doug Tompkins, the natural world Leave a comment

My Woodland Path

December 15, 2020December 7, 2015 by Brian Miller

It is a come as you are, find a convenient rock, fallen tree or flat ledge of land, where the ritual begins when you are ready.

Categories Society Tags ritual, the natural world Leave a comment

Getting Beyond the Green Wall: Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan and William Blake

December 15, 2020May 4, 2015 by Adrian Ayres Fisher

One can read a landscape, a garden, a tree, a bird, or a poem.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags art as social change, the natural world Leave a comment

The Ghosts of Islands Past

December 15, 2020March 31, 2015 by Margaret Miller

Several times a month I cycle by a small island located close to the south shore of Vancouver’s False Creek, a narrow inlet that separates the downtown peninsula from the city.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Placemaking, the natural world Leave a comment

Mastodon Hill

December 15, 2020March 10, 2015 by Andy Russell

The TAZ is an ever changing place for wild spirits to congregate.

Categories Environment Tags personal resilience, Temporary autonomous zones, the natural world Leave a comment

Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.

Reposting Policy | Privacy Policy

  • About us
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
  • RSS