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. 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.
29 October 2025. Biosphere Theatrics – In the case of biosphere replicas, how could any artificial environment possibly compete with the infinitely-superior and time-tested home we already enjoy on the planet to which we are both adapted and permanently grounded?
28 October 2025. Collaborations can drive transitioning to alternative energy regimes – We emphasize that alternative energy models must be conceived with and for specific communities through a genuinely participatory process.
28 October 2025. Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America – Only by seeing immigrants in their full humanity—beyond simple legal categories—can we develop responses that serve both immigrant communities and rural America as a whole.
28 October 2025. France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes – After such an inspiring visit, the momentum can only build: the Institut de Tramayes will join us at the Gathering in Plessé in November. They’ll participate in our opening day, where we’ll collectively explore the question: What is a Université Paysanne?
28 October 2025. We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us from Acting? – Where markets “commodify” and states “collectify”, Commons initiatives “commonify”: rooted in a culture of collaboration around the needs of a community, they mutualise the benefits that arise from collectively created wealth—through systems owned, governed, and maintained by the community itself.