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Resilience @resilience.org · Jul 31
We believe that building resilience includes taking care of ourselves to ensure we can stay with the trouble in the long run. For this reason, our team is taking a two-week collective break to rest and recharge, returning Monday, August 17. We recognize many don't share this privilege, but encourage everyone confronting and living through the polycrisis to step back when they can to care for their emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Rest builds resilience. Thank you for your support. The Resilience Team
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A future of ‘fewer and less’ may be unavoidable. But how do we get there humanely?
With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions: We need to replace fantasies of endless growth with ideas about managing the contraction.
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September 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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‘Earth keeps a ledger, and it is written in water’: Reflections on hurricanes, water cycles and inheritance
My family has feared water, depended on it, and moved uphill from it for four generations. The watching was never the point. What we did with what we saw was the point.
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September 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Tribes of the Klamath Basin show us how to heal a river
With the tenacity of salmon swimming home, Un-dam the Klamath is liberating their river before our eyes.
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September 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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The case for rewilding your backyard (and front yard too)
In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.
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September 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Confronting climate failure: How we dig ourselves out of the climate-catastrophe hole – Part 2
Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.
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September 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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We evolved to cooperate. So how did we create unequal societies?
For all our flaws, we evolved toward community and cooperation. Toward enough. Yet somehow, we got Egypt. What happened between ten and five thousand years ago that made this possible?
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September 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Safety in NIMBers: Why cities can’t save nature from destruction
Frequent exposure to roadkill prompts my wife to say that this is why we should all live in cities. Leave the hinterlands to wild creatures.
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September 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Confronting climate failure in a summer of steaming oceans and devastated villages – Part 1
Humanity is faced with the greatest failure in its long existence. What can we do about it?
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September 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Healing the earth, one community at a time: Highlighting ERC’s global impact
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
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September 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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The real story behind immigration, work, and power
Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together.
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September 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Navigating the currents of change: A conversation with Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw III
In this Q&A, Sammy Gensaw III discusses the intricacies of the Klamath River, the challenges posed by dam infrastructure, and the transformative power of grassroots activism. 
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September 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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‘I had a crazy dream’: The couple sailing around the world to help coastal communities adapt to climate change
Nigel and Veronica traded conventional careers for a years-long voyage from the UK to New Zealand, using their journey to connect with coastal communities facing increasingly severe climate risks.
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September 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Why community matters when preparing for the Great Unraveling
If we want to fail more beautifully, to make our predicament less ugly, we need to learn what it means to face it together.
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September 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Climatological limits to livestock: A plea for plant-based diets
Moving toward plant-based diets will not, by itself, solve the climate problem, but it is necessary for solving it.
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September 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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‘Smoky Skies and Freight Trains’: Sign of the times of extinction
It’s been days, now weeks, of smoke blowing in from the inland fires. The air is heavy, damp. Before green things burn, they steam. In the bay the heron look especially vulnerable. I worry about them more than I usually do, as I worry about everything that depends on these tidal waters, and what they ... Read more
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September 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Crazy Town: Episode 132. Finding Crazy Town Part 4: The Myth of Progress – Are We There Yet?
What if the story we tell ourselves about progress is wrong?
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September 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Are people really having fewer kids than they want?
How pronatalist misinformation fuels low-fertility alarmism.
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September 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Why America is removing thousands of dams and letting rivers flow freely: Excerpt
After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.
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September 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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On the life of Wendell Berry
In an age of brutal philosophies, shrieking media, cold arts, lying politicians, and devouring institutions, Wendell Berry was a hero of an entirely human way of being.
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September 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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The magic of hot composting
Imagine being able to compost almost everything and keep the majority of the biomass. Imagine, finally, that it only takes a matter of weeks, not months.
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September 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Preserving Labor History in the Present, for the Future
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
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September 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Unions have been down before, history shows how they can come back
Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.
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September 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Rebuilding the trade union movement: ‘Dare to struggle, dare to win’
To rebuild the trade union movement, to meaningfully defend the right to strike, and to begin a serious fightback against the imposition of the costs of capitalism’s crisis on the working class, we need to put our energy into workplace and community organising
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September 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Andrew Millison — Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action
In this conversation, Nate sits down with permaculture educator Andrew Millison to discuss the Great Green Wall project, a massive ecological initiative aimed at combating desertification in the Sahel region of Africa.
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September 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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‘A garden paradise in the clouds’: A story of climate adaptation in Eswatini
In Eswatini, Warren, a gardener and conservationist, is nurturing an indigenous garden that shows how local knowledge and care can help communities adapt to a changing climate.
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September 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM