Community Resilience = Emergency Preparedness
Resilience is preparedness, and before disaster strikes, we would do well to invest more in the organic movement to build local resilience…
building resilient communities
School Days in 2040: Rima’s Day at École Gardiens de la Foret
What might education look like in 2040 if it were to be truly Earth-centric?
Fantasies of “Socialism with an iPad”?: Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Review
Sometimes you read a book that helps to crystalize your thinking, not because you agree with it, but because you don’t.
South of the River Revisited: Thoughts on Rural Resilience
But what I and my neighbors do share is a respect for the land, work, and community and the pleasure that comes from doing for yourself.
“It All Turns on Affection”
Boomers, he said, are “those who pillage and run,” who want “to make a killing and end up on Easy Street,” whereas stickers are “those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.”
Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller on the Sustainability & Resilience of Our Food System
I feel inordinately lucky to be able to do this work – despite the fact that it often feels overwhelming or frightening.
Place Governance: Placemaking Powered Localism
The same principle that makes urban devolution so attractive and plausible—that governance is most responsive and responsible when it is as close to the people it serves as possible—can just as easily be applied to even smaller scales of self-government.
A People’s History of Woodcraft Folk
Woodcraft Folk members are inspiring individuals giving their energy week after week to educate the next generation of scientists, teachers, artists and activists.
It Takes Money to Make Money
What makes a broad mass of people generally be supportive of speculative public projects like new highways, stadiums, reconditioning the downtown or building an “entertainment district”, sold to the public as “growth”?
Why Say No to the TPP? Corporations Already Have Too Much Power
At a time of widespread corruption of governments by powerful moneyed interests, we don’t need to give mega-corporations yet another tool to override the will of “we the people.”
Rooted
With the climate emergency now breaking upon the world, some may wonder whether human society is going to be capable of an effective response.
Equity and Inclusion: Getting Down to the Heart of Placemaking
Placemaking, a collaborative process by which we (residents, architects, activists, community leaders and planners alike) shape our public realm together, is fundamentally about inclusion and shared community ownership.