The Great Unraveling
Environmental and social challenges are now compounding to threaten the very systems that support the world we know. What does this Great Unraveling mean for both human civilization and the global ecosystem, and what we can do in response?
Democracy Rising
Democracy Rising is a series of blog posts on deliberative democracy: what it is, why it’s powerful, why the time is right for it, how it works, and how to get it going in your community. Written by deliberation scholars and practitioners, the series originates in the United States but discusses principles and draws upon examples from around the world. (Views and opinions expressed in each post are those of the individual contributors only.)
The Dirt on Soil
Healthy soil plays a vital role in enabling resilient agriculture that produces abundant, secure, healthy food for a growing population. They prevent runoff, erosion, and air and water degradation, and have a direct impact on our changing climate by sequestering large amounts of carbon.
In The Dirt on Soil, we explore why soil health matters, how it’s related to our worsening climate crisis, and what individuals and communities can do to protect it.
Excerpts from Power (2021)
Richard Heinberg’s 2021 book Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival traces how humans have come to overpower the earth’s natural systems and oppress one another—with catastrophic implications. We are proud to provide these excerpts in partnership with New Society Publishers.
An impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative.
—Dennis Meadows, coauthor, The Limits to Growth
Uncertain Future Forum
In July 2019 Resilience.org hosted Post Carbon Institute’s Uncertain Future Forum—an essay conversation on timely, controversial, under-exposed topics related to humanity’s sustainability predicament.
Fundamentals
These selected essays reflect some of the fundamental ideas underlying our work at Resilience.
Talking Resilience
What is community resilience? How can you know if your community is resilient? Is there a relationship between resilience and justice? What resources have proven particularly useful in actually building resilience?
In Talking Resilience, these are just a few of the questions we’re bringing to conversations with leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds, organizations, and communities.
Resilience Reflections
In Resilience Reflections we ask some of our contributors what it is that inspires their work, and what keeps them going.