INTRODUCTION Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience adaptation and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. It is an honor to introduce Allyson Quinlan, Senior Research Fellow at the Resilience Alliance. With a PhD in Geography and Environmental … Read more
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Cultivating Resilience Across Asia and Oceania with Thao Kin & Trudy Juriansz from GENOA
INTRODUCTION Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. Joining me today are two remarkable women from GENOA, the Global Ecovillage Network Oceania and Asia branch. We have Thao Kin, the current regional … Read more
Community Resilience to Climate Change Companion Cards
This resource is for facilitators, educators, and local communities to learn about and map their resilience in local workshops and activities. It weaves in with the Tracker Tool which creates an online visual display. Below you can browse the attributes (center images), indicators (short highlighted text), principles (bold text), and recommended good practice (smaller text) by clicking the arrows. It is also available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Vietnamese, with more … Read more
Tension Revelation!
By Keala Young, Atlan Centre, USA We have learned at Atlan that having a foundational Agreement Field of our Community Agreements is essential, yet in some ways agreement is only the beginning. We equally need Practices to support us in embodying our Agreements. Like Attunement, Tension Revelation is one of those practices. Shared Understandings: Phase 1: Awareness of Dimensions of Tension Phase 2: Sitting & Sensing with Tension Phase 3: Calling a Circle for … Read more
Sustainable Living Festival at Earthsong Eco Neighbourhood
by Mark Feenstra, Robin Allison, and friends Earthsong is a community experiment in ecological and social sustainability. What are we best at that can be most useful to others? In 2024 we held our first Sustainable Living Festival. The impulse to pilot such an event was catalyzed by our growing awareness of the interdependence of our resilience with that of our wider neighbourhood. Impacts of climate change are already clear locally and nationally, with many houses having become … Read more
Strengthening Communities: Connecting Ecology and Generational Resilience with Alfusainey Sey from People’s Coast Ecovillage Network
Introduction Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. Meet Alfusainey Sey, a dynamic leader and passionate advocate for sustainable development. Trained in Permaculture Design and Ecovillage … Read more
Regenerative Journey with Rob Wheeler from The Farm Ecovillage
Introduction Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience adaptation and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. Today we speak to Rob Wheeler, the Ecovillage Resilience Project Partner for the Farm Ecovillage and Education Center in Tennessee, USA. In addition to … Read more
Threads of Sustainability: Weaving an Interconnected Community with Tanya Mottl from Narara Ecovillage
Introduction Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the EcoVillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global EcoVillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. I'm thrilled to introduce Tanya Mottle, a passionate newcomer to the Ecovillage movement. Tanya's journey began after four years of … Read more
Community and Resilience
by Michael Würfel of Sieben Linden Ecovillage, Germany I hereby declare: resilience will be the big buzzword of the coming decade. Everything will have to become resilient: The home, the city, the transportation network, politics. Just as every can of sardines has a label for "sustainability" today (for whatever fake reason), it will soon be labelled "for your resilience ", at the latest when it becomes clear that we will never manage to reach a sustainable lifestyle and advertisement will … Read more
The Highs and Lows of Striving for Climate Resilience
by Rob Wheeler of The Farm Tennessee, USA Just imagine, trying to create climate resiliency in a world that is seemingly hell bent on creating climate catastrophe and disaster, it may feel at times like an almost impossible task. So much to do and comparatively so little resources to do it with. And yet we have to keep going and trying. For our children’s, and their children’s, and even our own sakes. A year and a half ago we started this journey, joining in with 19 other ecovillage … Read more
