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What If We All Lived in Paris or Houston?
What if we all lived in one single megalopolis? Would resilience be possible? First, here’s a graphic that shows how big that city …
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Abundance is Possible, Don’t Miss Out
When I started to work on resilience, I focused on relearning age-old lessons of self-reliance. My goal was to find useful traditional methods for …
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Edible Cities and Towns
A little over 100 years ago, we lived amidst the food we ate. Even the biggest cities on earth — London, New York, and …
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This Week in Resilience – June 2, 2013
Do you know a recent graduate that can’t find a job? Almost everyone does, and we’re likely to see much more of that in …
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Does Your Town Have a Public Orchard?
Does your community have a public orchard? If not, you are missing out. A public orchard is one of the easiest and best ways …
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Trading Up to a Resilient Home
Here’s a great question from Catherine: How on earth do you do this with limited time and very limited financial options? To me, that …
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Homesteading 2.0 — A Home That Pays for Itself
It’s harder than ever to become secure. Expenses are rising. Incomes are falling and good jobs are in perpetual decline. Investments aren’t performing (and …
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Here’s a Tractor with a Cult Following
Do you know of a product with a cult following? A group of dedicated enthusiasts is usually an indicator that there was something special …
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Heavy Weather, Megacities… A Failed Future. Opt Out.
My friend, the writer Bruce Sterling, suggests that the future boils down to this one simple statement: Old people, in big cities, afraid of …
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This Week in Resilience May 19, 2013
I spoke about resilient communities at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Cooking for Solutions” event this week. It’s an unusually cool conference in that it …
