Resilience

20/06/2025

The conversation around microplastics pollution is picking up, and we're here to help you to feel informed about what's going on and what can be done to address it.

Join us Tuesday the 24th at 10:00am Pacific Time for a live conversation with ocean experts working on the front lines of this issue.

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Microplastic pollution is poisoning nearly everything on the planet—from the deepest parts of the ocean to inside the cells of living beings. In "Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health," we’ll dive into this growing global crisis.

20/06/2025

20/06/2025

How Inclusionary Social Movements Succeed
Social movements are powerful engines for change, and they coalesce around a vast range of issues, causes, and communities. But they fall into two basic categories: inclusionary and exclusionary.
-by Colin Greer

Social movements are powerful engines for change, and they coalesce around a vast range of issues, causes, and communities. But they fall into two basic categories: inclusionary and exclusionary.

20/06/2025

Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies to a Sustainable State, 2nd Edition: Excerpt
Frail supply chains and market volatility are not the only by-products of global market capitalism. The degree of global consumption under the current system far exceeds any previous epoch, and wealth has become concentrated into even fewer hands.
-by John H. Giordanengo

Frail supply chains and market volatility are not the only by-products of global market capitalism. The degree of global consumption under the current system far exceeds any previous epoch, and wealth has become concentrated into even fewer hands.

20/06/2025

The new Infrastructure Strategy is not…strategic
Will the Government’s new spending and planning priorities, as seen in the Infrastructure Strategy coupled with the recent spending review, actually help make British citizens and communities more resilient in the difficult times we are moving into?
-by Rupert Read

Will the Government’s new spending and planning priorities, as seen in the Infrastructure Strategy coupled with the recent spending review, actually help make British citizens and communities more resilient in the difficult times we are moving into?

19/06/2025

Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
-by Laurel Sutherlin

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

19/06/2025

The EU Has the Funds but Lacks Focus – This Farm Shows What’s Possible with Both
What’s needed now is a holistic vision, one that frames agroecology as a system, not a simple set of tools, and aligns funding models accordingly. Piecemeal policies will not cut it. Only by backing the full chain, from producers to consumers, can we build a resilient, truly sustainable food system.
-by Adèle Pautrat

What’s needed now is a holistic vision, one that frames agroecology as a system, not a simple set of tools, and aligns funding models accordingly. Piecemeal policies will not cut it. Only by backing the full chain, from producers to consumers, can we build a resilient, truly sustainable food syste...

19/06/2025

Defusing The Next Carbon Bomb: The Fight to Stop Big Oil In Congo
There will be an International Week of Action from June 22 to 28 against oil expansion in the DRC and for climate justice. We ask international allies to organize marches, sit-ins, performances, open letters, online campaigns, and more.
-by Alexandria Shaner

There will be an International Week of Action from June 22 to 28 against oil expansion in the DRC and for climate justice. We ask international allies to organize marches, sit-ins, performances, open letters, online campaigns, and more.

19/06/2025

Rod Schoonover — The National Security Risks We’re Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats
Recorded on: May 6, 2025 Description National security concerns have been the invisible hand guiding governance throughout recorded history. In the 20th century, it was defined by a country versus country dynamic: whichever nation was the strongest and most strategic was also the safest. But today, our biggest national security threats don’t come from opposing ... Read more
-by Nate Hagens

Recorded on: May 6, 2025 Description National security concerns have been the invisible hand guiding governance throughout recorded history. In the 20th century, it was defined by a country versus country dynamic: whichever nation was the strongest and most strategic was also the safest. But today,....

19/06/2025

More than a protest: Thailand’s forest communities fight for justice
The Chiang Mai protest was more than resistance. It was a rehearsal of possibility. One where decisions emerge not from the air-conditioned rooms of distant ministries but shared deliberation among communities refusing to be silenced.
-by Minh Tran

The Chiang Mai protest was more than resistance. It was a rehearsal of possibility. One where decisions emerge not from the air-conditioned rooms of distant ministries but shared deliberation among communities refusing to be silenced.

19/06/2025

The project is to reclaim the commons. The place to start is in our communities.
Truly, we need to reclaim the commons, including our most fundamental common realm, the atmosphere. Saito has illuminated the critical path, starting by organizing and building power in the communities where we live. Indeed, we must build the future in place.
-by Patrick Mazza

Truly, we need to reclaim the commons, including our most fundamental common realm, the atmosphere. Saito has illuminated the critical path, starting by organizing and building power in the communities where we live. Indeed, we must build the future in place.

18/06/2025

Greening the Sahara: For a Nourishing and Regenerative Algeria
Algeria has everything it needs to become a great nurturing nation again: sunlight, water (rare but sufficient), vast lands, available hands, powerful knowledge, and deep faith. What it needs now is a shift in perspective, a coalition for life, a regenerative national strategy.
-by El Habib Ben Amara

Algeria has everything it needs to become a great nurturing nation again: sunlight, water (rare but sufficient), vast lands, available hands, powerful knowledge, and deep faith. What it needs now is a shift in perspective, a coalition for life, a regenerative national strategy.