Chris Tittle is the Sustainable Economies Law Center’s Director of Organizational Resilience. Chris also co-leads SELC’s Housing, Commons Governance, and Money & Finance Programs, and coordinates SELC’s grant writing, grassroots fundraising, and internal governance. He is particularly focused on participatory and polycentric governance structures for more just and resilient economies. He practices Aikido and once traveled from Japan to West Africa by land and sea.
Seeding a 100-year Vision for Land Justice in the Bay Area
We had no illusions about the futures imagined by status quo institutions and actors — but we also left grounded in the knowledge that our vision seeds are rooted 5,000 years deep in the soil already, and roots that deep might just be resilient and resistant enough to create a new abundance for all.
June 3, 2019
Community Development and the Commons
What if community development was actually shaped by all members of the community, not just the most privileged and most likely to profit?
August 16, 2018
Community Development and the Commons
The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. If we have a collective right to a resource, we should be able to participate in decisions about that resource’s use.
March 9, 2016
California Passes Bill to Legalize Complementary Currencies
A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement.
July 22, 2014
Practicing Ecology: Julie Richardson on the Transition to a New Economy
If you follow the River Dart from where it meets the sea in Dartmouth (a small harbor town in Southwest England) to its many sources high up on Dartmoor (one of England’s largest national parks) you would travel a landscape that is both timeless and ever-changing. Standing atop one of Dartmoor’s large outcroppings of granite, you can actually begin to see the planet’s carbon cycle at work.
April 9, 2013