Welcome

In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities and nations?

Welcome to Cultivate's Community Resilience Site. As well as bringing together ideas and learning resources for community resilience, these pages will facilitate a collaborative enquiry into how we might cope with the challenges we face today and make the transition to a world that works.

This is a Cultivate learning resource.

Global Citizen Blog

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For those of us who dream

This is a post from Alejo Etchart Ortiz, a Spanish sustainable development consultant who is now implementing a resilience-building, community approach to sustainable development in small rural areas called RESIVITAS. Here he introduces a vision of a community-based, resilience-building, systemic approach to sustainable development. Alejo also reviews how three of the pre-Rio 20 documents align with [...]

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Convergence 2012

Convergence 2012 aims to highlight, and build upon, the many positive stories, ideas and initiatives emerging across the country. Taking place in venues all around Ireland during the same week as Rio +20, this event provides a positive platform for connecting, transforming and changing mindsets while showcasing the successful steps that many individuals and communities [...]

Networking for Community Resilience

Deborah Frieze, Walk Out, Walk On. Filmed in the Greenhouse on 22nd November at the Networking for Resilience event. Deborah explores the nature of change and introduces the two loops model.