The Heart of Urban Resilience is Trust, Not Technology
It is no wonder that there was a new energy in the debate concerning the question of resilience, and how to ensure that if — and when — such disasters arrive again, we are more prepared.
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Reflections on Resilience
Building resilience into our food systems is fundamental, if society is to adapt to the consequences of climate change.
New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions
Batten down the hatches; fill the grain stores; raise the flood defenses. We cannot know exactly what is coming, but it will probably be nasty…
Building Thriving, Resilient Communities Guide
More than just inspiring stories, this collection contains tools—practical, tested, hands-on ways you can begin making your community more resilient.
Resilience headlines
•Resilience: how to change to resist change •For Land and Life: 25 stories of Indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013 •33 cities named to resilient cities network
Sustainability Sucks
Framing a project or a business as "sustainable" no longer serves us. The dominant use of the word has ceased to mean what some of us orginally intended and, in fact, the term has been co-opted and watered down in many cases. Labelling something "sustainable" may even alienate potential allies, or at least people with whom you might want to get along. What do we really mean? What do we really want? Let’s find the new language set that can help us get there.
Is “antifragile” better than “resilient”?
"Antifragile" is a word you can’t find in the dictionary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author and student of probability and risk, coined the word because, after looking at languages across the world, he could not find a word which describes the ability to improve with stress rather than merely resist it as the word "resilient" implies.
Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement
As Rob Hopkins explained to a small NYC audience, the Transition movement is increasingly focused on local economic development. Reports on localizing food production, energy conservation and renewable energy capacity set out next steps toward a new green economy.
Economic Growth: A Social Pathology
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth’s ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
10 Years After ‘The Party’s Over’: an interview with Richard Heinberg
While in the US recently Richard and I pulled up a chair under a tree in his garden and chatted about his book The Party’s Over.
Letter from America #1: New Orleans and reflections on “awesome”
Time spent here, and talking to people, gives a sense of just how powerful the forces of nature are, and how we tamper with them at our peril.
Energy Reality: What We’re For
Recognizing that all human economic activity is a subset of nature’seconomy and must not degrade its vitality is the starting point for systemic transformation of the energy system.