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Bristol Bites Back | Fruits & Roots of Radical Resilience in South-West England
Bristol Bites Back | Fruits & Roots of Radical Resilience in South-West England Image courtesy of The Community Farm A new e-book published by ARC2020 documents one community’s inspiring response to the COVID-19 crisis. Download the free e-book Every crisis has a silver lining. Last summer, as we reeled from the Covid crisis, Ursula Billington, […]
Keeping Up Morale in the Fourth Turning
Keeping Up Morale in the Fourth Turning During this part of the cycle, many of us have experienced some fairly extreme isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of how serious you believe the disease is, the isolation, fear, and paranoia it has caused have led to some major consequences to the psyche and overall […]
The Resilience Doctrine: an Introduction to Disaster Resilience
The Resilience Doctrine: an Introduction to Disaster Resilience Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Part 1 of a 4-part Primer on Disaster Collectivism in the Climate and Pandemic Crises Climate change and pandemics are sad and frightening topics, but they can also be viewed as an unprecedented opportunity for 21st-century societies. These crises can become an […]
5 Winter Homestead Tips To Help You Prepare
5 Winter Homestead Tips To Help You Prepare It’s easy to decide to create a homestead, however, the ways in which we go about it can be difficult. But here are a few tips to help you as winter approaches if you want to live on a homestead or improve your self-reliance. Even though things […]
Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society
Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society The various restrictions that have been imposed to tackle the COVID-19 crisis have led many of us to reflect on what might be our response to other pressing issues that we face, especially inequalities in our societies and the major ecological issues […]
Can Changing Habits for Self-Reliance and Resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures?
Can Changing Habits for Self-Reliance and Resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures? Our release of chapter 25 from RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future as a free downloadable pdf is another small gesture to spread positive messages in a time of pandemic. This is especially so for all those locked down in Melbourne, the […]
Local Resilience in a Time of Crisis by Jay Tompt.
Local Resilience in a Time of Crisis by Jay Tompt. To state the obvious, political and economic change happens in all kinds of ways including through crisis and calamity. For those of us working for change at local, municipal and regional scales, this is the moment when many of the solutions we’ve been promoting are […]
Resilience and Collective Psychology – fast collapse or slow disintegration
Resilience and Collective Psychology – fast collapse or slow disintegration Will a failure in hub interdependencies lead to economic and social disintegration? The connection between the energy and finance institutions, as well as the state of public health are explored to examine whether there might be a “cross contagion” of cascading collapse between some combination […]
Building resilience into our food systems
Building resilience into our food systems Over the next few months and years, significant thought will be given to the lessons we need to learn from the coronavirus pandemic, its impact on the global economy, the rapid way in which it spread across the global population and the impact it is having on our daily […]
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020 It may sound paradoxical, but philosophers have proved useful in times of collapse and rebuilding. Some of the greatest works in philosophy–at least in terms of their longevity and influence–were written in and during such times.1 (More on this below.) Alfred North Whitehead, one of those philosophers writing in […]
The Importance Of A Resilient Life
The Importance Of A Resilient Life In the end, it will mean all the difference My business partner Adam and I recently met with a successful business owner whose career began on Wall Street. The kind of guy who should be rooting for the system, because it has treated him well. Instead, he was quite […]
What Is Earth For?
What Is Earth For? “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and foster its renewal is our only hope.” – Wendell Berry Author Wallace Stegner once said every book should try to answer an anguished question, an instruction that […]
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to build meaningful resilience. There are four questions about […]
View From The Brextanic
View From The Brextanic Longtime Automatic Earth friend Alexander Aston talks about finding himself at Oxford at a point in time when the British themselves appear overcome by a combo of utter confusion and deadly lethargy, and one can only imagine what it must be like for ‘foreigners’ residing in Albion, who face large potential […]
