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resilience

Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore)

Thumbnail image for Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore) June 30, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Launching this episode, we travel to Cuba – a [...]

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Joel Salatin on creating “forgiving” food systems

April 7, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

American farmer Joel Salatin on “building forgiveness into the system.”
Salatin owns Polyface Farms, a large organic farm in the Shenendoah valley of Virginia. His farm operates by what some would call biodynamic principles, where the farm is essentially self-sustaining and requires few outside inputs to be productive. Salatin was featured in Michael Pollan’s manifesto [...]

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Building Resilient Communities

February 17, 2009 by Mike Soron

New weblog / traditional journal People & Place looks very promising. The new project is asking unique questions about relationships and change.
Like us, they are are very concerned about resilience. Earlier this month, they identified “Six Habits of Resilient Organizations“. While written with business in mind the suggestions apply equally — and perhaps more [...]

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Local Investment Opportunities

January 12, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Back in November, FFWD Weekly published an article by David Wilson titled “Investing for Alberta Dummies: a guide to smarter, local investment.” Most of our investments, he argues, are funneled into corporations–non-feeling entities that “epitomize greed”, rather than in institutions that work to protect our health, environment, or simple happiness. When we retire, the money [...]

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Resilience is Viral

January 12, 2009 by Mike Soron

The old economic order has collapsed. This recession has moved into uncharted territory and there is no historical data or precedents that we apply. Ahead, outcomes of change will be all new, and so too, standard 20th-C responses will be inadequate.
At Global Guerrillas, John Robb argues that successful responses to the collapse will be [...]

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