Community Resilience
Providing information to help people and their communities weather the environmental, economic, and energy storms of the 21st century.
The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval
The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.
The Community Resilience Reader
Coming soon in October 2017 from Island Press! This book offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in varied fields including science, policy, community building, and urban design. It combines a fresh look...
Heinberg resilience talk reported in Corvallis Gazette-Times
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s recent talk to a packed house in Corvallis on Transitioning to a Post Carbon Society in the Age of Denial was picked up in the Corvallis Gazette-Times. From the article: “This is a long,...
Think Resilience Chapter 6: Political & Economic Management
Every society has institutions for making decisions and allocating resources. Some anthropologists call this the STRUCTURE of society. Every society also has an INFRASTRUCTURE, which is its means of obtaining food, energy, and materials. Finally, every society also has...
Think Resilience Chapter 5: Pollution
In nature, waste from one organism is food for another. However, that principle sometimes breaks down and waste becomes poison. Humans aren’t the only possible sources of environmental pollution. But these days the vast majority of pollution does come...
Think Resilience Chapter 4: Depletion
Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg sat down to deliver a 22-chapter lecture series entitled “Think Resilience: Preparing Communities for the Rest of the 21st Century,” which explores how communities can build resilience in the face of our...
Building a National Community Resilience Corps
In the dark days of May 1934, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt expressed deep concern about the lasting impact of the Great Depression on young people, who had no previous experience of rewarding work or prosperous times to recall....
Think Resilience Chapter 3: Population and Consumption
Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg sat down to deliver a 22-chapter lecture series entitled “Think Resilience: Preparing Communities for the Rest of the 21st Century,” which explores how communities can build resilience in the face of our...
Goodbye Administrative State, Hello Community Resilience
White House strategist Steve Bannon’s project for the “deconstruction of the administrative state” appears to be out of the starting blocks and well on its way toward a glorious victory lap. Using executive orders and other directives, President Trump...