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The Big Reset. Don’t Get Left Behind.
It’s a gloomy, rainy day outside and I’m stuck in front of a computer. That makes it the perfect day for thinking about the …
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Tinkering our way into a Resilient Future
Are there new technologies that will zoom local production and improve our resilience? Of course. In fact, nearly all of the technologies we need, …
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How You and Your Community Can Avoid Catastrophic Failure
How do you and your community avoid catastrophic failure? To give you a good answer, I need to share with you a lesson I …
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Weekend Edition: Are you Going to Waste Time or Prepare to Prosper?
IS the global financial system still breaking down? Given the drumbeat of news we are getting, it’s just getting started. We see the breakdown …
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Contagious Community: An Inside Look At the West Philly Tool Library
Today’s letter is from Arun Prabhakaran, an entrepreneurial member of our rapidly growing resilient network. In it, he interviews Michael Froelich, the founder of the …
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Is Community Resilience Contagious?
Here are two extremely simple ways to get a neighborhood thinking like a community. It’s always amazing to me how even a small project …
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Weekend Edition: The Failure of Central Planning
Networked resilient communities aren’t only a great hedge against the global system run amok. Networked resilient communities are also the future of the global …
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Windbreaks or Gone with the Wind?
I learned early on that wind matters. Here’s why: I received my professional pilot training in West Texas. If you haven’t been there before, the …
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Nomadic Gardens and Pop-up Farms
Nomadic farming — farms that move from location to location — is interesting. Let’s explore it a bit. If you are wondering what a …
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Are Today’s Grasshopper and the Ant in the Same Situation?
This letter is about ways to become resilient. However, before you do that, you need to think resiliently. Here’s an example of what this …
