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Why do Some Homes Burn in Wildfires and Others Don’t? Also: Back up Power for Apartments
Today’s letter features some great questions/input from our amazing community. As we progress, I’ll try to find ways to enable more interaction between community …
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A Must-See Home Transformation
It’s time to transform your home, but how do you do it? How do you take a home that is a static “knicknack” and …
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Here’s Why I Don’t Worry About Storms and Power Outages Anymore
Living without power for a while in the Balto/DC area is a great example of why @johnrobb ‘s Resilient Communities effort is so important. …
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What? America’s Poorest Towns Outlaw Economic Self-Improvement
Here’s something that makes me a little angry. Everywhere I look, I’m finding the same thing: In some of America’s poorest towns, it’s currently …
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What is a Resilient Livelihood? Also: DiY Community Security and “Lean” Dairy Farms.
Today’s letter starts with a discussion of what a resilient livelihood is, and why it is a good thing to have. We’re also lucky …
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Here’s the Future of America
Writing from: Aspen, CO. I’m speaking/attending the National Geographic Environmental Conference (focus of the conference: adapting to climate change). I had the good fortune …
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How to Bounce Back from Increasingly Extreme Weather Events
Climate change is here. We’re seeing increasingly frequent and extreme “heavy weather” events like these every day: Record setting droughts and heat waves. Once …
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How One Community Took Advantage of a Crisis to Become Abundant
Today’s letter includes: The global financial system is about to convulse again… here’s what you should and shouldn’t worry about. How one community started …
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How to Avoid the Fate of the Soon to be Extinct Middle Class
The sun is finally out after two days of rain. My kids are finishing up school today and I’m headed outside soon to work …
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Here’s a Way to Predict a Community’s Success in an Age of Turbulence
Here’s an interesting fact: the number of trees in an urban or suburban community is tightly correlated to its level of wealth. More trees, …
