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MenuResilience Building a world of resilient communitiesHomepageNews & ViewsAll Recent ArticlesEnergyEconomyEnvironmentFood & WaterSocietyInspirationDemocracy RisingThe Dirt on SoilFeatured VoicesLearnFundamentalsOnline CoursePCI PublicationsPractical ToolsResourcesActThink ResiliencePodcastAbout the PodcastEpisodesClassroom MaterialsSupport the PodcastContact the PodcastAboutAbout ResilienceTeamFAQsSubmission GuidelinesMeet Some of Our SupportersContact ResilienceDonate Just… Stop…By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearthTo effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.May 13, 2022Can ‘Cathonomics’ produce a just and sustainable world?By Elias Crim, ShareableMay 13, 2022The climate security agenda is more about strengthening military power than tackling climate instabilityBy Nick Buxton, Nuria del Viso, Transnational InstituteMay 13, 2022 LATEST ARTICLESIn times of climate crisis, the future is a territory to defendBy Indigenous Futures Network, 15/15\15We can regenerate the life systems to which our future is linked. But change must be at the root. Because after every crisis, we don’t want to return to normality, we want to return to the earth. Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crisesBy Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyAs the Ukraine-Russia war continues, a special plenary session would bring together a broad range of critical actors in the global food system to advance integrated solutions to protect the food security of the most vulnerable. India and Pakistan are baking, and every powerful institution is to blameBy Basav Sen, Foreign Policy In FocusAs climate change worsens and world governments continue business as usual, there will inevitably be massive resistance movements in South Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. Those of us in the North owe them our solidarity. Deliberative Democracy and Gaianism: Natural ComplementsBy Tom Prugh, GaianismDeliberative democracy (DD) shares some key features with Gaianism and is intrinsically compatible with it, to the point that Gaians might think about taking an interest in practicing and promoting DD. Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers — ExcerptBy Kathleen Dean Moore, Resilience.orgThe times call for new sacrificial rituals. Let us kill the fatted calf of the fossil-fuel industries by taking away their social license to steal and destroy the sacred Earth. It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us (Episode 55 of Crazy Town)By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.orgExplore the diminishing marginal returns of both World’s Fairs and technology in general, and consider what’s next as dreams of a high-tech utopia go the way of the animatronic dinosaurs. Why We Need Slow Solutions to Solve Our Water ProblemsBy Tara Lohan, The RevelatorBut the really empowering thing about Slow Water is that there are things that you can do to protect yourself from flood and drought as a city, as a region, as a watershed. It’s not easy, right? When decolonization meets post-capitalism: the third annual post-capitalism conferenceBy Robert Raymond, ShareableThe third annual Post-Capitalism Conference took place this past weekend — with one major shift from previous years: the conference is now titled “Decolonizing Economics,” and far from being a simple title change, the theme of decolonization was quite prominently weaved through the entirety of summit’s sessions. The sector secretly profiting from the cost of living crisisBy Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager, Adam Peggs, Open DemocracyNo one’s talking about the UK’s hugely profitable energy distribution networks. They should be publicly owned. Letter From The Farm | Bridging Worlds Old and NewBy Claire Jeannerat, ARC2020For both Claire and her husband, shepherding in the mountains is a lifestyle choice rather than a career. They endeavour to live this vocation in a manner that respects and upholds ancient traditions that are being lost in modern society, bridging a path between the old and new. How activists can fight through doom and gloom to be more effectiveBy George Lakey, Waging NonviolenceOne of the most frequent questions I get from Sunrise Movement members and other young activists is: “How do you keep going considering all the tough situations you’ve been through?” Is What Went Before Enough to Save U.S. Climate Policy?By Joel Stronberg, MediumBut the willingness of a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to overthrow established precedence in one fell-swoop may mean that Massachusetts v EPA — the bedrock on which federal regulation of carbon and other harmful greenhouse gases is based — is in judicial jeopardy. Load MoreEDITOR’S PICKSThe Uncertain Activist: more thoughts on uncertaintyBy David Lambert, Resilience.orgI have taken to heart the insight that possibly, the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis; that we see this thing we call ‘the climate’ through a window whose frame is itself the product of our toxic culture. From the IPCC to Just Stop Oil: my week of climate politicsBy Chris Smaje, Small Farm FutureI fear it will be too little and too late in the face of larger forces, but this is part of my answer to those I was debating yesterday who criticize Miranda Whelehan and Just Stop Oil for having no vision for a post-oil world. The part of the vision that they’re helping to supply is a new non-state politics of care. And that’s important. ONLINE COURSEThink Resilience CourseBy Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon InstituteThink Resilience Lesson 16: GlobalizationBy Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon InstituteThink Resilience Lesson 6: Political & Economic ManagementBy Richard Heinberg, Resilience.orgThink Resilience Lesson 5: PollutionBy Richard Heinberg, Resilience.orgFEATURED RESOURCESThe Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist RuinsBy Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton University PressWhat a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet. Reclaiming Your CommunityBy Majora Carter, Penguin Random HouseHow can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. MORE ARTICLESEconomyEnergyEnvironmentFood & WaterSocietyA Night Market Creates Opportunity for Black CommunitiesBy Morgan Florsheim, YES! magazineThe co-founders at the Nashville Black Market know it takes a community to cultivate change; that it’s less about what they alone can do and more about how they can empower the people around them. Market Box delivers food—and solidarity—to the peopleBy Tina Jenkins Bell, ShareableNyhart believes this network of trust strengthens Market Box’s work and their ties to the community. “Some recipients may ask for an extra bag for a neighbor who needs food, too. That makes it easier for us to reach folks who need the help,” she said. Capitalism as religion: on ‘The Enchantments of Mammon’By Chris Smaje, Small Farm FutureAsking himself how deep the reconstruction of the project of Enlightenment has to go, McCarraher’s answer is an emphatically italicized “all the way down” I think he’s right. Sufficiency means degrowthBy Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blogAfter thirty years of ineffective climate politics, finally a new idea makes it to the top of the pile.  Instead of bickering about decoupling, passively waiting for a quasi-magical greening of GDP, we can finally switch to Plan B. Alanna Irving on Distributed Leadership and Infrastructures for CommoningBy David Bollier, David Bollier blogYou can consider Open Collective an infrastructure for commoning -- a backend system that makes it easier and more normal for people to manage money fairly, collectively, and with open accountability. Decoupling in the IPCC AR6 WGIIIBy Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blogWhat I intend to show in this paper is that the reassuring claim that decoupling is feasible, as one may read in the Summary for Policymaker and hear in the media, is scientifically ungrounded, and this based on the very analysis provided by the IPCC report. 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