I don't want to advocate for everyone to have a fossil gas backup generator, because climate and also the considerable expense, and the air pollution.
But - 38 hours into this #outage with subfreezing overnight temps?
Feels like the best money ever spent.
Travels ahead? Box in middle is RaspberryPi Zero 2W and it offers you full world street level maps. It works without Internet connectivity. Bill of materials at my Wiki [1] and total cost is like $80. Don't let Internet shutdowns to ruin your day.
[1] https://resilience-theatre.com/wiki/doku.php?id=edgemap:meshtastic_bom#edgemap_with_rpi_2w_zero
I haven’t had a journal article accepted for publication in six years. Until today, by Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education…
Celbis, O.; van de Laar, M.; Windsor, W. L.; Papatsiba, V.; Ofosu-Ampong, K.; Kurawa, G.; Sadat Bole, A.; Ani-Ampsonah, Mary; Xu, Linlin
Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.
I’ll share the open access version when it’s ready, but here’s the abstract:
Purpose
This study contributes to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. We examine support practices at different levels of the system in which doctoral students are embedded, drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model to better understand how these contribute to doctoral students’ degree of resilience under stress.
Design
Using paired online interviews, we explore the experiences of 21 doctoral students from 7 universities across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Findings
We find that support of supervisors at the microsystem level was a pivotal mediating factor in explaining to what extent the negative impacts of the pandemic were experienced by the doctoral students in our sample. At the same time, factors at the systemic level, such as weak infrastructure for online education, and limited incentives for supervisors to engage in additional mentoring beyond supervision, affected the repertoire of actions available to students at lower levels of the support system. In less resourced settings where systemic constraints were felt particularly strongly, students had to self-facilitate sources of resilience, resorting to peer and external mentors’ support at the mesosystem level of their environment.
#covid19 #pandemic #research #HigherEducation #PhD #postgraduate #resilience #Bronfenbrenner
#FYI #AmericanResiliency #EmilySchoerning #resilience #US #USA #Caribbean #PuertoRico #Hawaii
Dr Emily Schoerning shares the projections for the Caribbean and the US Pacific Islands, including Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
"resilience around freshwater systems will be very important, as will growing food."
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BounceBack
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/bounceback-justin-farrimond.html
Passing the marina at the end of another tiring day I spotted this beautiful catamaran, Fountaine Pajot, Bounceback.
Another example of resilience.
Stay afloat, bounce back, and live to see another sunrise.
Not a new idea, but one we should embrace instead of the dog eat dog world the predatory oligarchs glorify.
Enjoy life on your terms, not theirs.
"So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany us in our labors during the days of our lives that the Divine gives us under the sun." - Kohelet / Ecclesiastes 8:15
There's still so much to do in #education (also of adults!). So much #knowledge get's lost by the dumbing-down machinery of ideology-cultists.
Mrs Sisypha looks at a huge mountain of work and tries to develop a playful #learning concept for a workshop on #biodiversity and cultural/natural heritage. 
Community currencies aren’t just a relic; they’re a response to economic crises.
From the Bristol pound in the UK to blockchain currencies like Sarafu in Kenya, they’re about more than just transactions – they’re about community connections and resilience.
@lavaeolus @academicchatter And here's the important story about Abram Kameraz, a scientist who tried to save everything of Vavilov's #seedbank what he could: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
Who will do this work now in the USA?
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
HT @jam
"Right to Repair is a vital part of Canada's path to economic resilience, and a sustainable future #canpoli "
https://theconversation.com/bolstering-canadas-right-to-repair-could-shield-it-against-u-s-tariffs-and-trade-uncertainty-248970
#RightToRepair #SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #Resilience #ReuseRepairRecycle
The humans couldn't finance a dam. The beavers fixed the problem
#Sustainability #Resilience #Ecology
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/beavers-prague-czech-republic-dam.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.Q-Lj.G4huybjvZ7Dc&smid=bs-share
Discover the celebrities battling neuromuscular conditions with resilience 
Discover more—link in bio!
I would like to say that I'm grounded, centered, and feeling effective ... but... 
and
Sometimes I am. 
I'm thankful for so many holding a piece of the resistance so we don't all have to hold it at once. (at least, I don't have the energy for constant #activism )
Interconnection + community= #resilience
I'm also thankful to be adding to the #solarpunk stories out there. We need more #hope
Latest is in the Bright Green Futures anthology. https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-26-bright-green-futures-2024
Do I know any #HAMRadio operators anywhere near #Atlanta or the state of #Georgia?
Is anyone using CW and #Lora #Meshtastic?
What's the best place to buy #LoRa and/or #Meshtastic gear from?
I've drug my feet long enough on this. #ResilienceIsResistance
Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now:
21. Research mutual aid efforts in your area. If there isn’t one near you, research how to start one. Start showing up for their meal drop offs or their trash pick-ups or whatever it is that they’re doing. Discover that it’s simpler and more fun than you imagined. When people ask you how you’re doing, say “I’m trying a new thing– I’m getting involved with ______ mutual aid, have you heard of it?”
22. If you’re a parent, send a letter to your kids school. Tell them thanks, and then ask how you can support them.
https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions
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These are very good points. Some updated info on phone security and riot medicine is here:
https://riotmedicine.net/
Here's an article from JSTOR about a systematic method to re-establish trees and other native species in little tiny patches of land, sometimes only a few square yards. Even small plots like that can improve rain in-soak and reduce runoff, provide habitat for birds and bugs and small animals, reduce summer heat, and improve people's moods and health.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-build-forests/
