A Resilient Society

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Codicts Team
  • May 5, 2015
  • Life Transitions
  • Sustainability
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A Resilient Society

Resilience is the ability to absorb shocks and continue to function. In this short video series the Post Carbon Institute explores the questions around how our world has gotten to where it is, and what a world can look like functioning within it’s limits.

The Law of Diminishing Returns

The Great Burning

Our Renewable Future

A Resilient Society

For more information, and to get involved, visit: http://www.postcarbon.org/afterburn-videos/

Or read Richard Heinberg’s book: http://www.postcarbon.org/publications/afterburn-society-beyond-fossil-fuels/

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