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SCALE INVARIANCE
In the second installment of the excellent Terminator movie series, Arnold Schwarzenegger (playing a robust robotic Terminator able to absorb terrific damage) faced off against a superior new series...
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TRANSITION TOWNS AND PARTICIPATORY PROBLEM SOLVING
Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Towns movement and I have been working on methodologies by which communities can become resilient for about the same amount of time (since 2004-05, building...
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EXPONENTIAL IMPROVEMENT
The tech visionary Kevin Kelly has an excellent must read article on why Moore's law (and similar exponential improvement rates in other technologies -- see graph to left on months to double for other...
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VIRAL RESILIENCE
Historically, economic recessions that last longer than a year have durations/severities that can be plotted as power law distributions (Ormerod and Mounfield).* Given that we are already over a year...
View ArticleTHE RESILIENT COMMUNITY
It should be clear, as we watch the gyrations and excesses of global markets, that no organization/state/group has any meaningful control over its direction. The same is true for almost every other...
View ArticleRESILIENCE AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES
If we view our world as a thermodynamic system, a simple application of the second law of thermodynamics wouldn't suffice to explain its behavior. Everything doesn't get progressively worse over time....
View ArticleRESILIENCE AS INSURGENCY
Open source insurgencies and resilient communities are both decentralized networks. Critical to the success of both are people that serve as catalysts (like Henry Okah and Rob Hopkins). What do...
View ArticleLOCAL SCRIP
Resilience requires more than redundancy, it also needs dynamic flows of goods, services, and energy in the local economy. However, globalization and modern financing works against this. Globalization...
View Article"I'M YOUNG AND NEED ADVICE"
Over the last couple of years, lots of young people (from high school through recent college graduates) have asked me:What should I be doing to prepare myself for an uncertain future?Since I get this...
View ArticleTHE RESILIENCE RETIREMENT SYSTEM (IRA, 401K, etc.)
Here's a think piece on how to generate the huge funds required for a shift to resilient communities. Still need to work this through, but it offers some amazing opportunities for financially...
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