#resilience #intuition #meditation #wellbeing

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Parts of Australia are becoming uninsurable for climate risks.

[Greg Mullins, founder of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, says the] solution would be to institute a tax on super profits of fossil fuel companies. “Let’s tax them properly and set up a national climate adaptation and resilience fund.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/31/uninsurable-pockets-of-australia-pose-existential-questions-that-may-require-radical-answers

Où vivre ... près de la nature ? Vous avez dit "nature" ?

Bonne lecture !
https://ou-vivre.fr/ou-vivre-a-proximite-de-la-nature/

Finding encouragement in troubling times: "Sandhill cranes on their way north, their voices reaching me where I stand. For a moment, I feel blessed."
https://mountainjournal.org/in-nature-and-friendship-column-marsh-rejecting-despair-as-greater-yellowstone-wildlife-and-public-lands-under-threat

https://www.europesays.com/2117090/ Department for Environment and Water #basin #black #Environment #environmental #FISH #freshwater #improved #including #increased #increasing #native #outcomes #Plan #resilience #species #water

You know one thing I liked being in the office is that time at the end of the day where there just isn't enough time to start anything before I have to leave, really not enough time to do anything meaningful - especially not something that has the potential to suck me in and make me late for the train.

So I had this slack period at the end of the day where I wouldn't schedule things. I would do this around my arrival, too. Stuff you have to do to adapt to train commutes.

This natural way of involving "slack" in my day led me to some kind of habitable work/life balance at that company that I stuck with for five years. But it is something I have had to learn to build into my 100% remote way of working.

Remote workers - and their leaders - should remember that we still need this slack time. And not to feel bad about it.

There should be no expectation that because we're Remote, we are filling every minute with work. That's not the job we're doing. There is as much to learn from observing and allowing our subconscious to chew on problems as there is actively working on material things.

"If you focus too narrowly on preventing the specific details of the last incident, you’ll fail to identify the more general patterns that will enable your future incidents."

Great blog post from @norootcause

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/26/the-same-incident-never-happens-twice-but-the-patterns-recur-over-and-over/

"I feel bombarded by articles on the U.S. housing crisis, which inevitably display suburban tract homes sprawling across the landscape or promote skyscraper apartments instead. I look at these patterns on the landscape and think, “What an utter waste.” We are doubling down on a way of life that has no possible good future."

Article: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-27/growing-the-shire-not-the-burb-facing-the-housing-crisis-with-ecological-sanity/

#MondayMusings

When I talk about open source software (usually in a geospatial sense) - I am not thinking about digital artefacts.

That's not my jam, I'm not a code writer past thoughtful tinkering and making science things go (once, on my machine).

What I *am* thinking and talking about is resilience, sustainability, ownership, hazard mitigation and risk management, community.

Open source software is necessary for all of those.

#foss4g #opensource #risk #resilience

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Urban agriculture meets agrivoltaics.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/23/agrivoltaics-make-the-leap-from-rural-to-urban-farming/

Urban agriculture meets agrivoltaics.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/23/agrivoltaics-make-the-leap-from-rural-to-urban-farming/

• 'Freedom to Be’ Quilt covers the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

"More than 250 quilts blanketed the National Mall in Washington Saturday, celebrating trans-resilience and joy.

"Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, people from across the U.S. created the 'Freedom to Be' Quilt.

"The quilts help kick off WorldPride 2025. It’s a global celebration of the LGBTQ+ community in Washington continuing through June 8."

https://www.wbay.com/2025/05/17/freedom-be-quilt-covers-national-mall-worldpride-begins/

Dust storms in Chicago. This is fucking fine.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dust-storm-warning-marks-a-first-for-chicago-so-what-caused-it/3748068/

Seriously though, we need to start preparing for shit like dust storms that last for days.

#Resilience is an act of #Resistance

Voyager 1 isn’t done yet — not even close

NASA just pulled off another miracle save:
The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead
With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset
If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion
If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth

They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.

This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.

The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.

#Voyager1 #NASA #Space #Engineering #Resilience #DeepSpace
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/

"It's all fairway when you put in the work!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

If you golf, you know instantly when you hit a great tee shot. And as a speaker, you know instantly when one moment has suddenly changed some lives and an industry. As a golfer and speaker, I've had both moments.

Let's start with golf. In my last few rounds - including yesterday - I've been hitting 100% of fairways consistently. This is a good thing, but it's only happening because I've put in the work. My irons are also, as the vernacular goes, 'dialled in,' pretty consistently hitting within 10 or 20 percent of my target. Golfers obsess over stuff like this.

As a futurist and innovation speaker, I also obsess over the quality of my work.

If you golf, you will know that today is the opening round of the PGA of America golf tournament.

One of my career highlights was back in 2010 when I keynoted the annual general meeting of the PGA of America, the organization that hosts this tournament. Most folks don't understand who the real 'PGA' golfer is who would be a member of this association, and who were at my talk. The folks in the room were not the Rorys and Brysons and Xanders- it was the hard-working local club pro at your golf club. The one who teaches lessons and runs the pro shop, who joins you on Mens Day or Ladies Day, manages the golf course, and hires all the other professional golf staff. Some of them might have competed on tour as a PGA Tour player (a different association!), but many simply love the game of golf and have built a career out of successfully running your local golf club.

And back in 2010, unlike today, the industry they were working in was facing a reckoning.

And somehow or other, I was selected to be the opening keynote speaker for their AGM. My job was to come in and provide insight into the trends that might provide them with opportunities for growth in the future. And that was the entire focus of this AGM - the meeting tagline was 'Grow the Game.' Not only that, my marching orders were to help shake them out of their complacency and encourage them to make innovative thinking the core of what they do.

I piped it.

Read more.

#Preparation #Success #Work #Growth #Dedication #Resilience #Innovation #Adaptation #Excellence #Opportunity #Fairway #Golf #PGA #Practice #GrowTheGame #Handicap #GolfPro #TeeShot #GolfIndustry #ClubPro

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/05/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-its-all-fairway-when-you-put-in-the-work/

Mosquito buckets of doom, nurseries, resources, a one time free Zoom, and the 25 (seriously?) best gardens in the world!
#Ecology #Botany #NaturalHistory #Sustainability #Resilience
https://open.substack.com/pub/rebeccamcmackin/p/grow-like-wild-flower-moon?r=mlfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false