Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?” According to the Transition approach,…
Tag Archive: climate change
Does Bill Gates Get Climate Change?
Alright, I confess. I’m a big, giant Olympics addict. I love the intensity and the drama. I could pass on the constant nationalism and medal count lists, and I’ll probably be considered un-American for saying this, but I’m really over Apolo Ohno. Because of the Olympics, my TV has been on way more than it…
Transition: Resilience
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen. If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and I…
Transition: An Introduction
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which turned out to be really fantastic. (The chat logs from our weekly sessions are still available, although the conversations have mostly wrapped up.) The book was a…
