Community Resilience

A great article on the need for community resilience can be found on the Resilience web site.  This article written by Bill Sheehan, “Competing Visions of Sustainable: Scarcity or Abundance?” provides a historical and modern day perspective regarding the factors that have resulted in our consumer – waste driven society and how scarcity and abundance influence our perspective on how to achieve sustainable communities.

However, climate change has given much broader definition to the term resilience in consideration how climate change has significantly impacted the world. The hardest hit areas are those that already live in poverty and largely depend on a predictable wet season. Some areas in E. Africa have been in extreme drought conditions for over 3 years. In 2021, locust swarm of biblical proportions have swept through Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and parts of S. Sudan. In 2022, Kenya lost 2.5 million cattle to hunger and thirst. Communities must diversify and learn how to live with minimal rain and capitalize on wet seasons when they come. A Circular-Sustainable Community will be designed to allow the community to thrive in these scenarios