Reading the newspaper these days often feels like an onslaught of one crisis after another—storms causing severe flooding, droughts ruining crops and driving up food prices, wildfires destroying thousands of homes. In the midst of these immediate and dramatic stories, the global financial crisis of 2008 can feel like old news. But a new video animation by Doing It Ourselves [...]
Posts Tagged ‘resilience’
Banking, Oil, and Us–A Troubled Trio
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: September 6th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Reading the newspaper these days often feels like an onslaught of one crisis after another—storms causing severe flooding, droughts ruining crops and driving up food prices, wildfires destroying thousands of homes. In the midst of these immediate and dramatic stories, the global financial crisis of 2008 can feel like old news. But a new video animation by Doing It Ourselves [...]
Community Resilience
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: May 23rd, 2012
In February, the Post Carbon Institute announced the first of their Community Resilience Guides, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity. The guide, written by Michael Shuman, is the first in a series of PCI books launched as part of the Institute’s Community Resilience Initiative.
Written by PCI Executive Director [...]
