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 Monday 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

Planet Local Film Screening

Join us for a screening and discussion of Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution, a film by Local Futures, makers of the Economics of Happiness.. The film explores the transformative localization revolution that is emerging worldwide. As people work to protect and restore their local economies, their communities, and the natural world, they are creating countless diverse initiatives, showing a new path forward for humanity. →

How Much Housing—<br>Considerations for the Future

How Much Housing—
Considerations for the Future

In considering how best to handle future housing needs in our communities, the idea of building tall residential units to increase density has been raised. We think there are better ways to provide more housing. →

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. →

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

resilience@ttgmpa.org

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