In the April MuseLetter, Senior Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg shares his thoughts on the role of disaster planning as a key strategy in relocalization efforts and presents a ten step strategy for developing Resiliency Plans. But should relocalization groups working on Energy Descent Action Plans or other projects abandon them? The answer is no.

"[W]hile a Community Resilience Plan would seek to maximize the opportunity that crisis affords, crisis management can only get us so far toward our goal of reducing and redesigning the human economy so that it does not degrade nature's carrying capacity. Broad-scale, proactive plans are still essential. Once the crisis has hit, once other remedies have been tried, once the Resilient Communities programs have been adopted, and once "alternatives" begin to become mainstream, then the long-range plans for redirecting economies toward true sustainability will become actionable. Indeed, at every stage along the way we will need some sense of what a sustainable society would actually look like and how we might bridge the chasm between the present and that distant goal." Read more....

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Photo from article by Stuart Staniford on the Oil Drum, September 30, 2005