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What Resilience Is Not
What Resilience Is Not A little over a week ago I published an article at The Automatic Earth by our friend Dr. Nelson Lebo III from Wanganui, New Zealand, named Resilience is the New Black. After being reposted at Zero Hedge, Naked Capitalism and at least a dozen other sites, it may well have had more […]
The Self-Employed Middle Class Hardly Exists Anymore
The Self-Employed Middle Class Hardly Exists Anymore Why owning your own income is more important than ever now Many people rightly aspire to improve their household’s state of resilience through actions such as storing emergency supplies, starting a vegetable garden, and learning basic readiness/maintenance skills, etc. In general, resilience boils down to self-reliance. But like […]
Resilience is The New Black
Resilience is The New Black This is another essay from our friend Dr. Nelson Lebo III in New Zealand. Nelson is a certified expert in everything to do with resilience, especially how to build a home and a community designed to withstand disasters, be they natural or man-made, an earthquake or Baltimore. Aware that he […]
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go By the year 2050, close to seven billion people will be living in urbanized areas worldwide, which is almost double the number of urban inhabitants of today. Provision of adequate infrastructure service to this massive urban population in order to ensure their […]
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT?
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT? Regular readers may remember a humorous post from November of 2014 by Mrs. Cog titled ‘Amps Times Volts Equals Watts’. In that article Mrs. Cog relates with a giggle her struggle to understand the basic fundamentals of electricity, something she had previously given no more thought to for her […]
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet?
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet? Believe or not the Transition Health Check is not about measuring everyone’s blood pressure in your Transition group or seeing how fit you all are. It’s actually a great tool for you to use to see how your group is doing, one that many Transition groups have already found […]
We can’t have resilience without justice
We can’t have resilience without justice Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones. Their deaths — and those of too many others — illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It’s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence. But here’s a casualty you might […]
John Arden: The Science Behind Emotional Resilience
John Arden: The Science Behind Emotional Resilience How we can better cope with adversity We often break the topic of “Resilience” down into 3 categories: financial, physical and emotional. The first two are much more tangible and more frequently and easily discussed. But it’s the last that likely matters most. No matter how large your […]
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble?
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble? | Grist. Suddenly, “resilience” is everywhere. It’s the subject of serious books and breezy news articles, of high-minded initiatives and of many, many conferences. After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey “A State of Resilience.” What’s going on? Does all this talk about resilience mean that we’ve basically given up on […]
Learning from Icarus
Learning from Icarus. A reflection on how making society more resilient may be worse than doing nothing at all. What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient? What if he had used bone and string and not just wax to bind them? Would this […]
Introduction: Why Resilience? | Solutions
Introduction: Why Resilience? | Solutions. While it is clear that the pace and pattern of global economic growth is unsustainable, we are slow in responding to this challenge. Sustainability advocates offer visions of a utopian future in which human needs are fulfilled and resource consumption is balanced with planetary capacity. But, in a turbulent world, […]
Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions
Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions. In BriefThe ancient Maya provide an example of a complex social-ecological system which developed impressively before facing catastrophic reorganization. In order for our contemporary globally-connected society to avoid a similar fate, we aim to learn how the ancient Maya system functioned, and whether it […]
Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World | Solutions
Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World | Solutions. Mike Weightman, IAEA Imagebank “Black Swan” events such as the Fukushima disaster contribute to changes and turbulance across various levels of society, driving the need for more resilient systems. A Marine Corps friend of mine defines resilience as the ability to take a gut punch […]
