Resilience – Articles

A feed of articles from Resilience.org, part of Post Carbon Institute’s Resilience program dedicated to building resilient communities as we transition away from fossil fuels.


 

30 October 2025. Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds – During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds.

30 October 2025. Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it. – As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a warming world, nonprofits, state-level governments, and independent scientists are rushing to preserve the information. Last week, Climate Central resurrected one of the most prominent of those lost records: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster database.

30 October 2025. “I Am Zanskar”: An interview with filmmaker Lobzang Wangtak – Wangtak shares the inspiration behind the film, the community-led water conservation efforts in the region, and his dreams for a future where tourism can co-exist with conservation and preservation of the ecology and cultural traditions of Zanskar.

30 October 2025. Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? – A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.

30 October 2025. The Silent Ecocide: Ukraine’s Wildlife on the Frontlines – What unfolds today across Ukrainian land is not just warfare; it is environmental devastation that will leave Europe's biodiversity scarred for generations.

30 October 2025. Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 16. How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse – A horrific zombie apocalypse has ravaged the world—but hardly anyone seems to notice. One lone podcaster sets out to document this strange new reality: from mindful zombie retreats, to those fortifying shotgun bunkers, to others disappearing into the woods to build something entirely new.

29 October 2025. The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked – An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace. But that’s not an action any modern politician seems to be able to contemplate, let alone discuss.

29 October 2025. How Habitable Will Earth Be When We Search for Life Beyond Our Planet? – As we uncover the colors and complexity of life beyond our planet, may we also remember how incredibly fortunate we are to live in a world that already flourishes with life.

29 October 2025. Kreisler: Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth – By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, Kreisler associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.

29 October 2025. How to Feed the World and Save the Planet – A View from the Ground – We need people to be involved, consumers to take a stand. We need a global, cross-sectoral movement for localisation.

29 October 2025. Never Stop Pushing: Radical social change through Skateboarding, Education, Community, and Perseverance in “Worst-case Scenarios” – While the practice of skateboarding may seem at first glance as completely arbitrary in the fields of existential ecological and social threats, in the example of Skateistan it has already demonstrably provided a foundation for community efforts supporting health, environmental education, and resilience in the midst of the extreme chaos of war, serving as a positive example of progressive social growth within chaotic conditions.