{"id":52303,"date":"2020-04-08T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52303"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:56:25","slug":"building-community-resilience-before-during-and-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52303","title":{"rendered":"Building Community Resilience: Before, During, and After COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Building Community Resilience: Before, During, and After COVID-19<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Dear friends and fellow Transitioners,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much has changed in so short a time: tens of thousands of people are now testing positive for the coronavirus daily in the US, most of the world is self-isolating at home, large sectors of our economy have ground to a halt, and politicians are currently debating how best to spend trillions of dollars to combat the global pandemic. We are definitely riding the exponential growth curve, and there\u2019s no end yet in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both strangely and predictably enough, this crisis has presented a massive opportunity for those of us who have been or are currently engaged in building local community resilience. Our job is now, as it has been in the past, to offer relevant and practical solutions that meet real needs. In fact, many groups all over this country have already been taking inspiring and meaningful actions to counter the economic, social, and health impacts of COVID-19: scaling up efforts to teach people how to grow their own food<\/a>, banding together to provide local investment for struggling local businesses<\/a>, organizing mutual aid networks<\/a>, and advocating for a \u201cgreen stimulus.\u201d<\/a> These efforts should be celebrated, supported, and replicated throughout the US. Many more should be developed to help meet skyrocketing needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference is now that we have the wind at our backs. Through these projects and others, we can reach out further to unprecedented numbers of people who are just now waking up to a more acute sense of their own vulnerability, interconnectedness, and responsibility for the well-being of others. We can share our visions with them\u00a0and encourage them to develop their own, invite them to step into a leadership role or join a local community that\u2019s already working on something they\u2019re passionate about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building Community Resilience: Before, During, and After COVID-19 Dear friends and fellow Transitioners, So much has changed in so short a time: tens of thousands of people are now testing positive for the coronavirus daily in the US, most of the world is self-isolating at home, large sectors of our economy have ground to a […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[8576,29011,29347,809,19046,855],"class_list":["post-52303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-community-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-don-hall","tag-transition","tag-transition-us","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52303","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=52303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52304,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52303\/revisions\/52304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}