Transformation

Rethinking Resilience In A Time Of Polycrisis

April 9, 2026 Jem Bendell, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, collapse, Inflation, New Normal, Transformation

I’ve often said that a rising cost of living is the obvious way that most people will experience the creeping collapse of industrial consumer societies. In the decade prior to 2026, that was already happening due to market capture by monopolistic capital, corrupt monetary policies, and the damage to production from ecological depletion and climate destabilisation. Now it’s also happening due to avoidable conflicts, such as in Ukraine and the Gulf. That is not to downplay any one tragic situation; but by pointing to the rising prices which then necessitate a change in our living standards, emotional states, and life goals, I am trying to help more of us to see how collapse is not a sudden event in the future.

Infrastructure, Finance, And The Sale Of The Future

March 10, 2026 Bart Hawkins Kreps, Resilience. Strategize! Book Review, Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, Transformation

Imagine yourself as a housing developer – an entrepreneur, a big-time player, a real deal-maker. Your people devise a plan to borrow money, buy land, design and win approval for a new subdivision, and sell 1,000 new housing units. Then, perhaps years before the houses are completed and decades before the initial mortgages are repaid, you sell your shares in the venture for a tidy profit. A neat trick, this, cashing in today on bills that others will pay long into the future. You have become wealthier, but have you been a “wealth creator”? For that matter, are you contributing to “economic growth”?

On Collapse And The Need For A Non-Bureaucratic Temporality

February 4, 2026 Yavor Tarinski, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, collapse, Local Assemblies, Transformation

How are we to think of the future? A future that by all accounts seem to be an uncertain one, to say the least.[2] This is a question of immense importance as no movement forward can be made without some degree of thought and planning. But to plan ahead is not that easy when immersed in a bureaucratic culture, shaped by capitalism and statecraft, that incentivizes people to be short-sighted due to the primacy of the profit-motive and the thirst for power. That’s why it is important to meditate on what prevents our societies from conducting a serious dialogue on what awaits us in the future, and what can be done to prepare for a potential societal and environmental collapse, provoked by the current dominant politico-economic system.

You Don’t Miss What Doesn’t Exist

February 2, 2026 Don Fitz, Popular Resistance. Educate! Anthropause, Biodiversity, Book Review, COVID-19, Degrowth, Transformation

“Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do – it first focuses readers’ attention to the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff. It then details the destructiveness of overproduction. As the inside jacket describes, “In the spring of 2020, people worldwide found themselves confined to their homes due to pandemic lockdown orders.

Transition As A Social Technology

February 1, 2026 Don Hall, Resilience. Organize! Communities, Open Source, Transformation, Transition Towns

After nearly two decades deeply engaged in this field, the organizing model developed by the international Transition Towns Movement is still the most holistic, accessible, and effective social technology I’ve found for cultivating more resilient, equitable, sustainable, and regenerative local communities from the bottom up. Based on the experience of thousands of Transition groups worldwide, it’s an open-source methodology that anyone can pick up, use, and adapt to their community’s needs, interests, opportunities, and culture, regardless of whether or not they consider themselves part of the Transition Movement.

We Greet The New Year With Optimism

January 2, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! climate crisis, Economic crisis, Global South, Transformation

Are we entering the new year with anxiety or with hope? I am hopeful because in my travels I see that people around the world are disappointed with the present state of things – they want to live in a society that is not eclipsed by hunger and suffering. But I am not so optimistic as to think that dissatisfaction alone will transform this world of climate catastrophe and genocidal war into one of dignity and peace. While the feeling exists, it has not yet helped us carve a path towards something better. For decades, organisations like the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), founded in 1964, have provided empirical analyses of the suffering in our world.

Managing Water Differently: Algeria Facing Hydrological Extremes

December 30, 2025 El Habib Ben Amara, Resilience. Create! Algeria, climate crisis, Transformation, Water

What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop? Across the country, the same paradox is emerging: prolonged droughts and declining groundwater levels, punctuated by sudden, devastating floods. In a matter of hours, entire neighborhoods in Algiers, Oran, Béjaïa, or Skikda can be submerged, while a few weeks later, water restrictions are imposed. This contradiction is not merely a climate problem—it reveals a deep disruption between Algerian territories and their natural water cycles.

Mutual Aid Or Mutual Assured Destruction

December 26, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Strategize! Evolution, Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin, Transformation

Kropotkin’s political ideas arose largely from his study of animal life and peasant society during his time in Siberia. It was on the basis of his observation of animal and human cooperation that he concluded that mutual aid, and not mutual struggle, is the primary factor in human evolution and survival. This was an argument in direct contradiction to the evolving consensus at the time put forward by Herbert Spencer and Thomas Huxley of a war for survival of the fittest. Kropotkin’s argument is essentially this: Human individuals and societies are both competitive and cooperative. The question is which has been more important in the survival of species.

A Call To Makers, Hackers, Designers, Engineers And Artists

December 16, 2025 Rob Hopkins, Resilience. Create! Arts, climate crisis, Futurism, Transformation

I don’t need to tell you the scale and urgency of the crisis unfolding around us right now. You can see it. You can feel it. It’s unimaginable that it might have somehow passed you by. It almost certainly gives you regular sleepless nights. One could be forgiven for thinking that what some call the ‘polycrisis’, which draws us seemingly inexorably towards the Sixth Great Extinction, is viewed by many of those in charge as some kind of a desirable outcome. The movements around the world standing up for life, for the future, for the flourishing of life on Earth, have been incredible, vibrant and creative, but make no mistake, we are losing, and losing, as climate-destroyer-in-chief Donald Trump might put it, ‘bigly’.

Venezuela Is Undergoing A Total Functional Economic Transformation

December 15, 2025 José Negrón Valera, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Bolivarian Revolution, Finance and the Economy, Socialism, Transformation, Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recently highlighted the role of the National Council for Productive Economy in driving the growth of a new, self-sustaining economy. During a meeting on Friday, December 13, which brought together the government, the banking sector, and representatives of the country’s main business chambers, he presented the year-end gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast of 9%, surpassing the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) projections and marking 18 consecutive quarters of sustained economic growth.

Evergreening Transition Training

December 13, 2025 Don Hall, Resilience. Organize! climate crisis, Education, Transformation, Transition Towns

Dear friends and fellow Transitioners, I hope you’ll join me today in celebrating the launch of Transition Network International’s first-ever “evergreen” course, Transition Launch Training! This self-paced and self-directed online version of our most popular training is now available for anyone, anywhere, to take for free at any time. It’s the product of 12 experienced Transition Trainers working together across nine countries and three continents over the past eight months, and having coordinated its development, I’m really proud of how it turned out.

Navigating Collapse Together: Toward Regenerative Public Life

December 4, 2025 Nicole Negowetti, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Local Economy, Transformation

How does change actually happen? This question has followed me across every chapter of my life, from political science and philosophy studies, to graduate work in peacebuilding, into law and food policy, and now into conversations about the polycrisis and metacrisis. Across these settings, I have worked at many scales, always searching for where transformation truly takes root. In the first essay in this series, I explored how food and place reveal the limits of our political binaries. In the second, I examined resistance as an expression of kinship rather than opposition.

What Futures Are Possible?

November 5, 2025 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Earthship, Sustainability, Transformation

People have been forecasting the future for as long as they’ve had language. Premodern ideas of what’s to come often featured either a catastrophic end of the world or an eventual paradisiacal condition of peace and plenty. This was true both for many, though not all, Indigenous peoples and for followers of the world’s missionary religions (i.e., Christianity and Islam, and to a lesser degree Buddhism). For some cultures, the arc of time was imagined as a progression from ancient virtue to present corruption and eventual ruin or salvation; for others, time was cyclical, with multiple Golden Ages and periods of decline.

Ten Principles Of Next Economy Enterprises

November 2, 2025 Lift Economy. Create! Democracy, New Economy, Solidarity Economy, Transformation

The 10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises serve as critical guideposts for designing organizations from a socially just and environmentally regenerative perspective. They are emergent and malleable, derived from work with hundreds of social enterprises. Here is an outline of the 10 principles: Meet Basic Needs This principle prioritizes providing human-centered essentials like nourishing food, clean water, shelter, and medicine. It directly challenges the Business as Usual (BAU) economy, which is geared toward fulfilling greed rather than human need, by providing essentials without destroying habitat and ecosystems. Enterprises adhering to this principle also look for ways to consider ecosystem repair as an impact outcome of their business functions.

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