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1 week ago | resilience.org | Rupert Read

The Government has just announced its ‘Infrastructure Strategy’ for the next decade. We learn, in looking at it, that the 10 year capital allocation for flooding is just £7.9bn: this falls far short of what’s needed. The National Infrastructure Commission itself recommended an annual spend of £1.5bn a year as an absolute minimum.

1 week ago | resilience.org | Adèle Pautrat

Organic farming has long been hailed as the poster child for sustainable agriculture. But as the EU organic sector becomes increasingly industrialised, cracks are beginning  appear. How can we weed out the weaknesses in the current model and transition to diversified, resilient systems? Seeds4All visited the Bergerie de Villarceaux, a pioneering farm through the decades, in the hope of gleaning lessons from the past for the organic farmers of tomorrow.

2 weeks ago | resilience.org | Marianne Dhenin

Since taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on the nation’s past. He has cut funding and signed executive orders targeting historical programming at public institutions, including national parks, museums, and public schools, to silence or obscure the histories of communities of color and the systemic inequalities and racism those communities have endured since European settlers landed in what would later become the United States.

2 weeks ago | resilience.org | Matt Simon

Ed. note: This excerpt is taken from Pages 54 – 60. Chapter 2 of A Poison Like No Other, by Matt Simon, published by Island Press, and posted here with permission. Every day, ocean life embarks on a mass migration that puts a bird flock or reindeer herd to shame. When the sun’s up, animals large and small hang out in the relative safety of deeper, darker waters, where their predators can’t see them.

2 weeks ago | resilience.org | Nick King

This article, which is the first of two, applies the concept of Sankofa to consider the critical, and perhaps pivotal, moment in history in which we find ourselves currently.  Sankofa originates from the Akan inhabitants of Ghana, and broadly describes the importance of remembering and incorporating knowledge from the past in order to move forward. Or put another way, learning from the past in order to better steer the future.