{"id":4594,"date":"2015-01-18T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2015-01-18T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:38:31","slug":"is-resilience-the-new-sustainababble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"Is \u201cresilience\u201d the new sustainababble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/is-resilience-the-new-sustainababble\/\">Is \u201cresilience\u201d the new\u00a0sustainababble? | Grist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, \u201cresilience\u201d is everywhere. It\u2019s the subject of serious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicaffairsbooks.com\/book\/hardcover\/the-resilience-dividend\/9781610394703\">books<\/a>\u00a0and breezy news articles, of high-minded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/building-resilient-nation\">initiatives<\/a>\u00a0and of many, many\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/resilient-cities.iclei.org\/bonn2014\/resilient-cities-2014-home\/\">conferences<\/a>.\u00a0After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/01\/obama_inauguration_will_featur.html\">A State of Resilience<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on? Does all this talk about resilience mean that we\u2019ve basically given up on averting climate change and other environmental catastrophes \u2014 and that our only hope is to roll with the punches? Have we leapfrogged over denial, anger, and bargaining, landing squarely in acceptance?<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily. Resilience, like sustainability before it, is an idea with potentially transformative power. Resilience is all about our capacity to survive and thrive in the face of disruptions of all kinds. If we were to take resilience seriously (highly recommended in our increasingly disruption-prone world), we would make some far-reaching changes in how we live.<\/p>\n<p>A truly resilient city would look very different from those we now inhabit \u2014 in ways that would make Grist readers proud. For example, our resilient city would:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is \u201cresilience\u201d the new\u00a0sustainababble? | Grist. Suddenly, \u201cresilience\u201d is everywhere. It\u2019s the subject of serious\u00a0books\u00a0and breezy news articles, of high-minded\u00a0initiatives\u00a0and of many, many\u00a0conferences.\u00a0After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey \u201cA State of Resilience.\u201d What\u2019s going on? Does all this talk about resilience mean that we\u2019ve basically given up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2709,680,766,2527],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-post-carbon-society","tag-resilience","tag-survival","tag-sustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}