Community Resilience

Mission Statement

The Community Resilience Group focuses on learning about resilience issues in food systems, water systems, energy systems and more. We are reviewing ways in which we could survey our community and create a resilience baseline to gain some indication of where we can improve.

What is Community Resilience?

Our group initially focused our meetings on discussing the book The Community Resilience Reader (available for free at: resilience.org). We will be shifting to exploring The Community Resilience Toolkit in order to do a community resilience assessment of the Greater Media area. You can learn more about that here.

We’re also learning about the long term impact of climate change on different regions of the country. Using the American Resiliency channel on YouTube which gives forecasts and projected outlooks for every state in our country, we compared the PA and NJ assessments. The projections for NJ are much grimmer than for PA. Something our group recognized is that the videos focus narrowly on Climate. We’re committed to exploring what Community Resilience requires within the broader polycrisis and ecological predicament we face.

The Community Resilience group will also be organizing community documentary film nights around Greater Media—the first one, in Swarthmore on Jan 30, 2025, showed the film Choosing Earth: Choosing Life. More will be coming soon!

Our regular meeting date is the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm. We meet at a group member’s house and you can email Will Powers for the address if you’d like to attend.

RESOURCE LINKS

Recent Blog Posts

Finding Community and Purpose in an Angry World

You are not alone. It’s important that you know this. There are people who care about you—and care about our community. Global or national politics can be a challenging place to invest your time and energy. →

Some Cool News in a Hot Summer

hyper-local study group where we look at carbon reduction strategies: building energy resilient households, preparing for disasters, and developing community projects. You can learn more about how the Cool Block program works here: https://coolblock.org/how-does-program-work →

Collective Resilience

Reflections on what we can learn from COVID-19, by Sari Steuber These are difficult times for many of us. Our hearts go out to those who have been stricken with the COVID-19 disease or have lost loved ones to it, to those who are struggling economically because of losing their incomes, and to those who are working long hours in →

Impact Highlights

Starting in 2024, the group held several engaging discussions about community resilience.

In 2025, we held our first film screening—Choosing Earth: Choosing Life, a film created by Choosing Earth. Forty people attended and had an in-depth discussion following the film. More films will be coming soon.

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Contact

Will Powers

Community Resilience Group Lead
Stewardship Group Member

info@ttgmPA.org

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