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.
4 April 2025. Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems – Reintroducing European bison to Britain, despite their absence from its history, could help restore ecological balance by fostering biodiversity and reversing some of the damage caused by industrial farming practices.
4 April 2025. Is 100 years of cheap food coming to an end? – There are multiple reasons for why food prices are on the rise. There are major similarities between the FAO food price index and energy prices. This is also quite natural as energy is a major input in the whole food system.
4 April 2025. This is what democracy looks like – Ours is a relational world, not a world of billiard balls knocking into one another trying to gain advantage. The space between things or people isn’t empty, it’s full of something invisible to the eye, yet viscous and buoyant, a carrier wave that we can sweeten with our thoughts and feelings.
3 April 2025. Internet Grief: Where the island meets the metaverse – As an 8 year-old, the author received her first exposure to the online world. As an adult, she reflects on what it took from her.
3 April 2025. The Dark Frontier – If humanity is going to survive, and play a healthy role in the Gaian system, all of us will have to learn to accept limits – that certain areas of the world are not for us humans to exploit but belong to Gaia and the untold species that inhabit them.
3 April 2025. Abandon All Hope: Dire Times for Europe – The meeting between Trump and Putin to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine (without the participation of Ukraine, let alone the EU) has made it clear that we are entering a new phase in the decline of our civilization, that we are already in the first stages of the final game of the energy descent.
3 April 2025. Crapitalism: Psychoanalysis and the Profit Motive – Moving from cultures of greed to cultures of gratitude requires institutional change, but it also requires that we look inwards, gently put our infantile wishes to bed, and wake up to this rich earth, with its soils made healthy by shit and decay.
3 April 2025. Africa at a Crossroads: A Future of Ruin or Renewal? – Africa’s history is not just one of suffering—it is also one of resilience, ingenuity, and renewal. Across the continent, ordinary people are accomplishing the extraordinary. They are fighting back against desertification, reclaiming barren lands, and bringing life back to the soil.
3 April 2025. Ishmael: Chapter 3 – Indeed, we speak of our planet, our environment, and even our wildlife. That’s what mythology looks like: not facts, but an interpretive wrapping.
2 April 2025. Energy bills and debt are rising yet again – here are three things that would help vulnerable households – Incomes are failing to keep pace with rising energy prices and existing schemes to help those on low incomes fall well short. This will push more people into hardship. The UK government must put the needs of the most vulnerable first.
2 April 2025. Kristine Tompkins — Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money – Today Nate is joined by conservationist Kristine Tompkins, to discuss her decades of work on conservation initiatives in South America, the value of personal responsibility, and how she has cultivated a way of living without fear in taking on unprecedented environmental challenges.