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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Let it Burn
After a decade working across the Southeast, Jordan Youngmann is seeing his hometown in upstate New York through fresh eyes- and his work is just warming up. Pre-European colonization, forests looked very different: while many people think of this world as a “pristine” landscape, forest systems across North American were highly regulated by Indigenous groups. Today, these systems are largely…
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Resilient Futures Podcast: The Gospel of Grass
Patrick Keyser knows the grass may not always be greener–but there’s still a lot to learn from it. Since long before European colonization, grasslands have a rich history as one of North America’s most diverse, resilient, and iconic landscapes. These ecosystems are the epicenters of agriculture in the US, but native grass species are disappearing as introduced plants take over…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS
This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban systems as SETS, positions SETS thinking for sensemaking, and identifies four modes of SETS to build requisite variety. To learn more, follow the links below! Links:Foundational reading on SETSMain perspective discussed regarding SETS and sensemakingPaper: SETS in Phoenix, AZ Haiku:City…
