Keyword: resilience

Bokashi Composting
Scraps to Soil in Weeks
by Adam Footer

Bokashi is Japanese for "fermented organic matter." Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and convenient way to compost in your kitchen, garage, or apartment, using a specific group of microorganisms to anaerobically ferment all food waste (including …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

Uprisings
A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution
by Sarah Simpson & Heather McLeod

If we want to reduce our environmental impact, build resiliency in our community and improve food security, it's up to us to make it happen. In many North American communities, the instrument of change is Â... grain. Grain is the perfect metaphor …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

American Exodus
Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
by Giles Slade

Some scientists predict the sea will rise 1.5 meters before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real amount much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and heat events will be …
related subjects: Urban Issues

Underminers
A Guide to Subverting The Machine
by Keith Farnish

To undermine something is to weaken its very foundation in order to bring about its eventual collapse.
Underminers is a radical guide to dismantling the industrial machine. The first section of the book deconstructs the Tools of Disconnection - the …
related subjects: Sustainable Living

The Five Stages of Collapse
Survivors' Toolkit
by Dmitry Orlov

In the face of political impotence, looming resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. However, popular perception of how this future might actually unfold varies wildly from "a …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil

Financing our Foodshed
Growing Local Food with Slow Money
by Carol Peppe Hewitt

In towns and cities across North America, a quiet revolution is underway. Fed up with sending their money off to make a fast buck in faraway markets, people are putting their money to work where they live, in markets they trust and understand - …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

In Transition 2.0
by Transition Network

In Transition 2.0 is an immersion into the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You'll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localizing their …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil

Unlearn, Rewild
Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspiration for the Future Primitive
by Miles Olson

Picture a world where humans exist, like all other living things, in balance. Where there is no separation between 'human' and 'wild'. Unlearn, Rewild boldly envisions such a world, probing deeply into the cultural constraints on our ability to lead …
related subjects: Sustainable Living