Resilience – Articles

3 July 2025. Care Home Farm: Embedding in a region through trade – As Graeber puts it in his lecture on Care and Freedom, "We need to reimagine production and consumption." We need to produce ‘Care’ not money, and this is really the central ethos of the Care.Home.Farm project.

3 July 2025. Wild Civilization and the Poet-Farmer – The archetypal, self-governing citizen in SMPLCTY is the poet-farmer (or poet-carpenter, etc.), who lives simply in a material and energetic sense, contributes to necessary economic production and community governance in non-hierarchical conditions, and who otherwise explores the good life through creative activity and aesthetic experience.

3 July 2025. Cecosesola and the Art of Commoning within Capitalist Markets – One of the most singular and accomplished commons I’ve ever encountered is Cecosesola, a federation of Venezuelan cooperatives. The remarkable federation artfully manages multiple ventures as commons while deeply immersed within a system of capitalist markets.

3 July 2025. Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below – From the corridors of the Parliament down to the provincial governments, the shift from fossil fuels to renewables is being framed as both inevitable and immediate. Yet beneath the veneer of urgency and technological optimism lies a deeper tension, who defines this transition, and in whose interest is it unfolding?

3 July 2025. Overcoming Nostalgia: From Apocalyptic Arks to Citizen Stewards – If today nostalgia and alienation are among the main forces that keep the status quo intact, thus permeating the desolation of our world by the dominant system, then it is the recreation of the civic community and the genuine public that can help the 99% to self-empower themselves and enact crucial changes.

3 July 2025. Trapped inside a computer – We must accept that some things can only be experienced and accepted. That they cannot be measured in a ‘hard’ way, and that our attempt to do so will kill the very thing we are trying to save.

2 July 2025. Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region: An intersectional approach to dismantling green colonialism – In the ongoing discourse surrounding environmental justice, the concept of “green colonialism” has emerged as a critical lens to examine the historical and contemporary injustices faced by marginalized communities in the global South, including within the context of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

2 July 2025. The potential of bioregional, collective and small-scale, natural fibre systems – We can create conditions of emergence for a democratic, cooperative, commons-based, ecological clothing culture. To achieve this, international knowledge exchange will be sought alongside local experimentation. With determination, cooperation, and careful planning, new fibre systems will be possible.

2 July 2025. Half of the global population can’t afford healthy food – A healthy diet costs in global average US$3.68 per day in 2021. This is considerably higher than the average food expenditure in almost all low income countries, where people have to do with a diet dominated by staples and oils, lacking protein and a number of micronutrients. The cost of healthy food is also out of reach for many people living above the World Bank's extreme poverty line.

2 July 2025. What many environmentalists get wrong about the money system, and why it’s important – Perhaps the best you and I can do towards a better system is to stop believing in the current one, to withdraw from it (to a greater or lesser extent), and create new, gangster-free informal economic contexts.

2 July 2025. Atomic Humans – The way I see it, demanding an explanation that fits in brains not adapted for that purpose is tempting but not justified: again putting humans first. We possess neither the right nor the hardware to know Ultimate Truth. But the allure of that trap is very difficult to resist or escape.