by Stanley Wu | Oct 29, 2019 | Environment
by Stanley Wu, Coordinator, the Omega Resilience Project When Pacific Gas and Energy (PGE) was determined to be responsible for the devastating Camp fire that killed at least 86 people and resulted in tens of billions in damage, they filed for bankruptcy and...
by Omega | Sep 24, 2019 | Environment
In this September 23, 2019, video, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate change. You have stolen my childhood and my dreams with your empty words. Greta...
by Omega | Sep 3, 2019 | Books, Environment, Fiction
OK, this is Cormac McCarthy: it’s dark and visually searing. If you’re up for a bleak vision of the future in the hands of an exceptional writer, give this a go. And be forewarned that you’re unlikely to erase the images of the father pushing the shopping...
by Omega | Sep 3, 2019 | Books, Fiction, Polycrisis
By Peter Heller Hig’s wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the...
by Omega | Aug 7, 2019 | Resilience, Webinar
The New School at Commonweal hosted The Resilience Gathering in 2019, including keynote speakers Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the resiliency field. They engaged several dozen participants on these core questions: Can we avoid civilization...
by Omega | Aug 6, 2019 | Polycrisis
In this keynote address given at The 2019 Resilience Gathering, Nate Hagens addresses the environmental impact of the current economical model and proposes possible solutions. For more information check out...
by Omega | May 30, 2019 | Books, Culture, Nonfiction
By Thomas Homer-Dixon The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon takes the reader on a mind-stretching tour of societies’ management, or mismanagement, of disasters over time. From the demise of ancient Rome to contemporary climate change, this book analyzes what...
by Omega | May 29, 2019 | Books, Environment, Nonfiction
This book is filled with accessible prose & technical science and woven together by storytelling that gives human context to its central question: “What if climate change is worse than we think?” As someone who consumes climate information in bite-sized pieces, it...
by Omega | May 28, 2019 | Books, Environment, Nonfiction
By Bill McKibben Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat...
