Nov 20, 2012 | Preparation |
You see, resilience comes out of a struggle. That’s it, there’s no other way to get it. Take the wrong bus and end up at the wrong stop will build you resilience but only if you aren’t able to place a rescue call for someone to pick you up. Failing math and having to try harder: There’s a good one. Having to go to another soccer game and try again because the last time you mucked up and everyone is mad at you. Realizing that a course or activity you thought you’d enjoy is just terrible but sticking with it anyway, even though you’re sometimes miserable.
Mar 21, 2012 | Preparation |
One of the really important things about resilience thinking is that it links together so many domains that we typically only looked at singly. Our thinking over the last 200 years has become very siloed, in part due to university structures, university careers, but also due to reasons beyond that. I think one of the really interesting things is that resilience crosses a lot of those boundaries between disciplines, because the general concept has applications in business and in the environment, but also in social communities. A really interesting part of resilience thinking is that you bring communities closer together so they have more options and can be more creative in responding to stress.
Aug 28, 2011 | Preparation |
It is important to recognize inaccurate stereotypes about the simple life because they make it seem impractical and ill suited for responding to increasingly critical breakdowns in world systems. Four misconceptions about the simple life are so common they deserve special attention. These are equating simplicity with: poverty, moving back to the land, living without beauty and economic stagnation.
Dec 6, 2010 | Feature Articles, Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation |
ORIGINAL ARTICLE In a world increasingly vulnerable to external shocks, we’re searching for rooted communities—and what we can learn from them. It seems that almost everyone we know is feeling vulnerable these days—whether they are rich or poor, employed or...
Dec 4, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation, Transition |
ORIGINAL ARTICLE The following is an excerpt from Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch (Chelsea Green, 2008). Tasch presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and...
Dec 2, 2010 | Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Preparation, Tyranny |
ORIGINAL ARTICLE In 43 BC, over 2,000 years ago, warring consuls Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were duking it out with each other over control of Rome following Julius Caesar’s assassination the prior March. Each had legions at his disposal, and Rome’s terrified...
Nov 30, 2010 | Preparation |
Knowledge is something that no one can take from you. It’s the eternal wealth that will help you thrive in a Post-Collapse world. Mad Max: Village Roadshow Pictures Jeffrey Green Activist Post Some experts see the perfect storm emerging for a dramatic collapse...
Nov 30, 2010 | Preparation |
By Giordano Bruno Neithercorp Press – 11/29/2010 Food production is one of the most essential concerns of any society. Without direct availability and ease of consumption, without the consistent flow of agricultural goods, every nation existing today (except the most...
Nov 26, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation, Transition |
THE BACKSTORY The emergence of the Transition movement in the last four years or so is one of the most hopeful signs in the early 21st century, and Transition may yet turn out to be one of the fastest-growing, most inspiring, and most significant social change...
Nov 26, 2010 | Economic Meltdown, Energy Depletion, Preparation |
Reprinted from SEEKING ALPHA Once a year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) releases its World Energy Outlook (WEO), and it’s our tradition to review it. A lot of articles have already been written on the WEO 2010 report, and I don’t wish to tread an...
