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economy

Resilience links: Waste water, water storage, and cooperatives

Water storage could help during droughts and floods, and ….

“The U.S. political culture has become not just dysfunctional but deeply corrupt.”

—Economist Paul Krugman on the possibility that George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich may get renewed

Read: “Resilience and the incredible power of slow change”

a blog post by marketing guru Seth Godin

“The human body has built-in redundancies: two eyes, two kidneys, two lungs. It is good to incorporate that model into everything we create.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan”

Read: “Is the global economy a Ponzi scheme?”

We’re using up the planet, “we’re targeting our own children and grandchildren.” Yep—it’s a Ponzi scheme

Running off the rails

Economists thought that markets were really resilient—but now they’re rethinking this basic tenet

Can businesses be too small to fail?

“Localwash” may be the new greenwash, but still there’s an important trend backing local goods

UK Sustainable Development Commission

government watchdog

The Schumacher Society

society based in Bristol, UK, inspired by E. F. Schumacher, author of “Small is Beautiful”

Restoration and Resilience

A blog by EDF focuses on restoring the Mississippi delta

bookshelf

books I've read on failure & grace

The World Without Us
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Zeitoun
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Tipping Point
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


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