Resources | Resilience Project

The Climate Resilience Fund

The Climate Resilience Fund offers grants under two programs: the "Coordination and Collaboration in the Resilience Ecosystem Program," which "features an annual grants competition that aims to rapidly scale up climate adaptation and resilience…

Global Catastrophic Risks

Funders, Resource

This webpage published by the Open Philanthropy Project highlights future global catastrophic risks such as pandemics and risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The Open Philanthropy Project offers grants in relation to these issues. Image…

Commanding Hope

Book, Resource, Uncategorized

By Tad Homer Dixon, Knopf Canada Commanding Hope marshals a fascinating, accessible argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems to affect urgent systemic change, strengthen our economies and cultures, and renew…

Graham Hardy

Ministry of the Future

Book, Fiction

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change is the crisis that finally forces mankind to deal with global inequality.New York Review, by Bill McKibben The prolific science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who is…

Book cover of How Everything Can Collapse

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times

Book, Resource

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times, co-authored by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens, provides "a valuable guide to help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves…

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Book, Resource

The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon takes the reader on a mind-stretching tour of societies' management, or mismanagement, of disasters over time. From the demise of ancient Rome to contemporary climate change, this book analyzes what happens…

The Uninhabitable Earth

Book, Resource

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts…

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Book, Resource

Bill McKibben's Falter tells the story of converging trends—global warming, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics—and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.

Transition United States

Group, Resource

Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. We are working in close partnership with the Transition Network, a UK-based…

Transition Network

Group, Resource

Transition Network is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. Here we explain what it is, why people do it, how the movement started and give you a sense of our underpinning principles and approach Image…

We’re Living in a Global Polycrisis: It’s Time to Build Resiliency

Article, Featured

by David Bonbright If you watched the excellent series on the Chernobyl disaster, you can see with perfect hindsight why many say that Chernobyl was the proximate cause for the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can see it in the way…

michal matlon

Innovation and crisis: Is our fight against COVID-19 a critical juncture?

Article, Resource

Daniel Jensen

Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

Article, Resource

We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. We especially draw attention to the lack of appreciation of the enormous challenges to creating a sustainable future.…

The Rise of Neo-Feudalism

Article, Resource

In this article, Robert Kuttner and Katherine V. Stone delineate how "the private capture of entire legal systems by corporate America goes far beyond neoliberalism. It evokes the private fiefdoms of the Middle Ages."

Humanity’s Phase Shift, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Article

In this episode of the Rebel Wisdom YouTube channel, Daniel Schmachtenberger explores the shift in humanity from one based on strategic competitive advantage to one based on interconnectivity that is necessary to avert self termination.

Vaclav Smil: We Must Leave Growth Behind

Article

In this in-depth interview, iconoclastic Czech-Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil offers a sobering view of the precarious climate future of the planet. Photo by EliasSch via Pixabay.com

Nate Hagens: The State of the Species 2020

Resource, Video

In this video, Nate Hagens, Director of EnergyandOurFuture.org, covers the state of the economy, environment and human cultural situation in the face of the recent Coronavirus. The question and answer session from this talk is available …

Greta Thunberg’s full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit

Resource, Video

In this September 23, 2019, video, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate change. "You have stolen my childhood and my dreams with your empty…

Joanna Macy: The Resilience Gathering

Resource, Video

In this talk given at The Resilience Gathering, Joanna Macy guides us how to suffer with the world and make responsible decisions that take into account our interconnectedness with all that is.

Nate Hagens: The Human Predicament

Resource, Video

In this keynote address given at The Resilience Gathering, Nate Hagens addresses the environmental impact of the current economical model and possible solutions. For more information check out energyandourfuture.org

Why it’s time to think about human extinction

Resource, Video

In this video episode of Unstoppable, environmentalist, activist, professor of genetics and science broadcaster David Suzuki hits us with some home truths about what our future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been.

Graham Hardy

Resource Library

Featured

We’re Living in a Global Polycrisis: It’s Time to Build Resiliency

Websites

Cascade Institute

Resilience

The Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN)

Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere

The Consciousness of Sheep

Selected Funders

The Climate Resilience Fund

Global Catastrophic Risks

Books

Commanding Hope

Ministry of the Future

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

The Uninhabitable Earth

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Open Groups

Transition United States

Transition Network

Articles

We’re Living in a Global Polycrisis: It’s Time to Build Resiliency

Innovation and crisis: Is our fight against COVID-19 a critical juncture?

Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

The Rise of Neo-Feudalism

Humanity’s Phase Shift, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Vaclav Smil: We Must Leave Growth Behind

Videos

Nate Hagens: The State of the Species 2020

Greta Thunberg’s full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit

Joanna Macy: The Resilience Gathering

Nate Hagens: The Human Predicament

Why it’s time to think about human extinction

Fiction

Ministry of the Future

The Road

The Dog Stars