RESOURCES
We hope you find inspiration in these pages and are (more) eager to apply these learnings in your own life and work, both personally and in community initiatives! We are keen to support the knowledge and capacity building to reach wider audience who will continue to build on this work.
Here you can tune into our Podcast which features ecovillagers and Resilience experts sharing stories of their journeys, the insights gained along the way, and some visions they have for next steps. Get a glimpse of an Online Course we plan to offer in the future which stewards a journey into social-ecological resilience to climate change while also nurturing inner resilience. Explore the Community Resilience Companion Cards and Tracker as tools to more deeply understand attributes of resilience while you explore and map your own or your community’s resilience.
And finally, find even more inspiration in the next steps of this work as we begin to frame the follow-up project, Keystone Communities, which will widen and deepen the impact started here. It will allow us to include more people and communities, provide new learning opportunities, and continue to weave knowledge exchange and solidarity throughout the GEN network.
Community Resilience Podcast
Welcome to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. Join us for a listening trip around the world, as we hear from ecovillages and experts and explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis addresing the ups and downs of building an ecovillage, opening a space to learn from each other’s vulnerabilities.
Weaving Resilience Course
Building on tools and insights developed through our exploration of Ecovillages Resilience to Climate Change, we extend the opportunity wider. Join us on your own journey to explore and nurture more resilience within yourself and in the social and ecological communities you are a part of.
Community Resilience Companion Cards
Use these cards to explore attributes and indicators of local community resilience. These cards were developed in collaboration between researchers and ecovillagers from around the world. Their purpose is to support communities everywhere to learn and take action to build resilience at the local and regional levels together.
We aim to have the cards available in as many languages as possible.
Community Resilience Tracker
The community resilience tracker is a tool to explore and nurture resilience by revealing areas of strength and places that need more attention – whether you live in an ecovillage, town, city neighborhood, village or transition initiative. It is based on six attributes of resilience and 32 questions where your can rate your community using a sliding scale of 1 – 5. When you finish, you get an immediate visual snapshot of strengths as well as opportunities for areas to grow, learn and improve to be even more resilient in a rapidly changing world.
COMING NEXT…
Keystone Communities Project
Building on insights, tools and capacities built through our exploration in the ‘Ecovillages 2.5+: Community Resilience in the Face of Catastrophic Climate Change’ project, this project will reflect our ongoing commitment to scale and amplify the capacity of local communities to be resilient sources of wider transformation able to function also when larger systems falter or collapse.
