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Why a resilient community network?

Because with the continued hollowing out of the nation state, resilient communities will – Shield us from increasingly frequent shocks and breakdowns of an out of control global system. Protect us from predatory and parasitical non-state actors — from globe…

Tele-Seminar: Building the Lifeboat

Sharif Abdullah of the Commonway Institute in Portland, Oregon offers a tele-seminar titled, “Catalyzing Our Relational World: Building the Lifeboat.”   The five-session seminar will be held Tuesday evenings beginning January 27, and will preview the contents of his forthcoming book,…

Resilient Community: Economics and Spirituality

(Eschlabach photo.) “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the…

The case for Resilient Community

Some years ago I visited two villages near Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Both were small and poor. Both were inhabited by members of Rodhi caste, the Sinhalese version of untouchables. But there, all similarity ended. In the first, families of five…