3. their four crises
โ Ecological
โ Energy
โ Economic
โ Equity
perhaps we all have our own favourite ways of
describing global issues (I do)
4. their โSix Foundations for Building
Community Resilienceโ
1. People.
2. Systems thinking.
3. Adaptability.
4. Transformability.
5. Sustainability.
6. Courage.
โ we could come up with some good list, too
โ (they do explain them of course, nicely)
5. then what does postcarbon say?
โ โIf this community invited in a resilience
scientist, she might lead them through a
process that looks like this:โ
โ โ โฆ describing โฆ socio-ecological system โฆ
โ attributes โฆ capacity to cope with change โฆ
โ develop plans to ... cultivate overall resilienceโ
โ how does a community โactively participateโ?
โ (where is there a tame โresilience scientistโ?)
6. and, how could I know, by myselfโฆ
โ which venture to engage with?
โ who to collaborate with?
โ when to offer time, experience, expertise?
โ which parts of my knowledge are useful?
โ what useful abilities I have?
โ how to train or prepare myself better?
โ how to collaborate effectively?
7. the big issue, to me, is โฆ
how do we find people
who will help us, and
who we can help, and
then work with them?
8. would be hugely significant
โ because it's not just identifying one issue
โ but scaling down to the local level
โ enabling people's collaboration on many issues
โ building vision along with relevant abilities
โ bringing together people for ventures
โ forming values-based communities
9. some components I can see
โ finding people
โ developing ideas and ventures
โ developing abilities
10. finding people
โ who:
โ share values
โ share interests
โ may have complementary abilities
โ so that they can collaborate effectively
โ when and where must also coincide โ locality
โ (they could perhaps even be refugees)
โ my concept: โCHOICE Systemโ
11. developing ideas for ventures
โ many people have good ideas
โ but they lack fertile ground
โ bring people together in a open-minded context
โ tested โ interesting things happened
โ (Mandy was involved in this)
โ my concept: โre-co-venturingโ
12. developing skills
โ straightforward learning from โfollowingโ
โ can learn from followers as well
โ benefits of old fashioned apprenticeship
โ but peer-to-peer, no hierarchy
โ much more flexible
โ my concept: โfollower guidanceโ
13. potential results
โ beyond my estimation (that's what I like)
โ why? just because
โ they serve rather than pushing
โ once set up, they take little human time
โ they avoid the bottlenecks of hierarchy
โ they are truly peer-to-peer
โ part of a newly emerging society?