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Everywhere people are looking for new ways to bring meaning into our lives.  Resilient Communities is one of many efforts to connect us.  Our purpose is straightforward:

Help us talk with each other about what's important as we work to change our lives.

Provide resources to deepen those conversations

Make it easy for people to share what they are learning, thinking and doing.

 

Here's how:

Find out about our Live Satellite Video Conversations. Earlier this year thousands of people in hundreds of communities in North American came together to talk with each other about resilience.    Also, you'll find reference material from our programs on January 22nd, April 8th and May 27th,  including quotes, real audio and video, quesions that were raised, and other resouces.  Click on the link above for full details.   Look over our resources on the web.  We are gradually assembling a world-class array or resources to help people think about resilience, talk with others about resilience, and act to make their own lives more reselient.  Check out what we've got so far by clicking on the link above.      Where does Y2K Fit?  That's the great question these days, isn't it?   Lots of sites on the web cover Y2K in depth these days.  We'll try to give you some of what we think of as the common sense basics. "Y2K Wisdom" Quicktime video montage produced by Ben Levi and Lisa Spicer. Requires QuickTime 4.0 on PCs or QuickTime 3.0.2 on Macs (download at http://www.quicktime.com)   What About You?   Check in with us, using this handy webform to tell us what work you are doing to build resiliency.  We'll be figuring out how to share your work here on this site.   Feature of the Week. Lots of aricles are finding their way to us these days.  Approximately once a week we'll present one here.  These will also be placed in our Feature Archive for future reference. The Genuine Uncertainty of the Y2K Future by Paul H. Ray Here are my Top Ten Reasons why a y2k recession is extremely likely. Please pass them on, to see if we can spark some discussion from those who will not react to potential disasters, but will react if they see their pocketbooks being hit. These items don't require y2k to be especially severe to hit the economy hard. It's not that all of these will be severe, it's that even if I'm wrong on several of them, the others will be quite sufficient to cause big economic difficulties. The more of these are true, the deeper and nastier the recession. 0. It's about time for a recession anyway. It's late in the business cycle, and at such times, almost any random event can trigger a recession. The question is, not whether, but when, and how nasty. ... Click for Rest of Article

What's Behind Resilient Communities? Something's afoot in the United States, and Canada, and Australia, and Europe, and Asia and Africa -- all over the world. Increasing numbers of people are saying they want a different life than that being offered by industrial-era society. Paul Ray, in his 1997 Integral Culture Survey: A Study of the Emergence of Transformational Values in America says that as much as 25% of populations in industrial countries are looking for a better way of life. Why? Forces are coming together to shift dynamics in very dramatic ways. There is a growing split between the rich and the poor not only within countries both developed and undeveloped but also, of course, between them. There is a huge increase in population over the last century, which when coupled with production increases, has led to shortages of land, water and clean air. There is growing evidence that global warming and climatic instability, evidenced this year by the number of severe fire and flood problems around the world, threaten current human habitation patterns in significant ways. New forms of nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry are threatening humanity and both nation state rivalries and terrorism create continuing anxieties There is an economic crisis as our reliance on economic growth and affluence collides with changing personal commitment and ecological realities. There is a social crisis as growing poverty and growing wealth co-exist on the same planet. There is a moral crisis as our ability to feel outrage about the state of the world is buried by our busyness and statements from economists and politicians that "we have no choice." There is an ecological crisis as fish stocks are overconsumed, fires burn out of control, forests diminish, land erodes. And there is, above all, a spiritual crisis as we lose sight of our real goals and substitute instant gratification in place of a search for true meaning. At the same time, the seeds for change are growing. More and more people are beginning to examine the ways in which they are living their lives. Those of us doing so are saying that we want less stress and more time. We're saying we want to have a positive impact on the global environment rather than a destructive one. Many are being drawn to a new emphasis on building healthy relationships and towards exploration of spirituality. We are looking for a new way to live -- a more resilient way of life. (continued)

Resilient Communities is brought to you by Northwest Regional Facilitators Please check back regularly for more information about how to be involved. Disclaimer: Any Y2k information in this site is made under the protection of the Year 2000 "good Samaritan"law recently passed by Congress. This information is provided "as is" and NRF makes no express or implied representations or warranties, including warranties of performance, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. NRF does not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or timeliness of this information. Your use of this information is at your own risk. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from the use of this information. NRF will not be liable for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages or any other damages whatsoever, whether in an action based upon a statute, contract, tort (including, without limitation negligence) or otherwise, relating to the use of this information.

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