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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 5d

The systems causing collapse aren’t inevitable. We can build interspecies communities rooted in liberation, care, justice, and interdependence.

Let’s make something better—together. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by David Graeber: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.”

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 6d

Even w/ little money or space, a second freezer can be a powerful #CollapseResilience tool. Our chest freezer doubles as a prep space/drying rack and lets us save money, cut waste, eat better & store food for security, mutual aid, or barter.

What does food resilience look like for you?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows storage containers full of food in a freezer. One of the containers has a smiley face. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Get a Second Freezer.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 12d

Building strong relationships is some of the hardest & most vital work for cultivating collapse resilience & creating a world that centers the wellbeing of people, animals & the planet. Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity & practicing grace help us grow communities of transformation.

Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Jo Lorenz: Every successful movement in history happened because people talked to each other face-to-face, built trust, created networks of care and resistance that no algorithm could infiltrate.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 13d

#CollapseResilience Challenge: Cancel your paid streaming & take back your power. Corporations rely on our complicity. Save $, reduce energy, support libraries/community efforts & spend more time on meaningful living. What will you do w/ your extra time & money?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows a person holding a tablet using a streaming service. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Dump Paid Streaming Services.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 17d

When Audre Lorde wrote this, she was talking to Black people about their role in actively working for liberation. Her powerful words are relevant to all of us striving to defeat fasc1sm and build mutual aid and #CollapseResilience.

No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us.✋🐾🌍💚

Image is old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Audre Lorde: “To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it.”

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 19d

I read a lot of #CollapseFiction —it’s oddly soothing (some people stay kind even in chaos) & full of survival lessons. I’ll start sharing my favorites. First up: Tilt by Emma Pattee—a gripping, realistic look at “The Big One” hitting Portland. If you read it, tell me what you think! ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚 📘

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 20d

A friend turned a closet into essential food storage. We’ve added shelves in odd spaces, thrifted a pantry & swapped a treadmill for a chest freezer. Even small homes have hidden storage spots for #CollapseResilience: closets, walls, under beds. Scan your home for options & tell us what you find.

Image shows a closet turned into a pantry with a variety of food items in storage bins. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Create Extra Storage Spaces.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 26d

#CollapseResilience means not just going about our business.

We can’t control the systems of collapse, but we can control our choices and how we show up for each other. And we can build better systems founded on compassion, justice, mutual aid, and solidarity for all beings. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Sharon Astyk: This is what collapse looks like. You are going to have to go to work, unless you lose your job. Money is still going to exist, and you won't have any. There will still be people doing fine while you are suffering unimaginably. Some of them will help you. Some of them will think you deserve it. Most will just keep going about their business, because it isn't them.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · 27d

We’ve been making & freezing applesauce & freezing other produce we’ve grown or gotten for free. #CollapseResilience means making the most of the food around us. Even w/o a garden, you can find neighbors, gleaning groups, or community gardens sharing abundance. Freezing food = food security.

Image shows containers of applesauce with a couple of apples on top of them.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Oct 2

Tasks include:
💊 Researching reputable lists, strategies & sources for responsibly stocking up
💊 Asking your doctor/vet for 60–90 day prescriptions
💊 Refilling on the earliest eligible date to build a buffer
💊 Buying extra OTC items you regularly use
💊 Having the most essential meds in a grab-and-go

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Oct 2

Stable access to essential medications is becoming more uncertain. Fascist policies strip away healthcare protections. Tariffs, climate chaos & corruption disrupt global supply chains.

This week’s #CollapseResilience Challenge: stock extra medications for yourself, your kids & your pets. 🧵 (1/2)

Image shows two hands holding medications. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock Extra Meds for Your Whole Family

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 30

A new data analysis of media coverage shows that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a key source of climate emissions. Shifting to plant-based agriculture is one of the most important individual & systemic choices we can make for #CollapseResilience.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 29

Fascists want us to believe empathy is weakness. But empathy is resistance + liberation. The US's foundation of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, & speciesism normalize cruelty. Let’s build interspecies communities of care + mutual aid as a strike against cruelty & domination. ✋🐾🌍💚

Image shows an old-growth forest with a graphic of a tree branch toward the top. The text is a quote by Hannah Arendt: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 23

Collapse isn’t one sudden event. It’s the breakdown of systems built on capitalism, white supremacy & endless extraction. The ecological destruction, violence, political chaos & economic hardships are all connected. Resilience means rejecting those systems + creating new ones based on mutual care.

Image shows an old-growth tree, with a line drawing of a tree branch on top. The text is a quote by Nafeez Ahmed: Collapse is not a singular event but a systemic transition where interlinked ecological, energy, economic, and political crises converge, leading to the unraveling of existing structures.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 22

#CollapseResilience Challenge: Keep key documents (IDs, medical records, insurance, financial info, pet info, etc.) stored in both print + digital forms, in multiple safe places. Have them ready for when you need them. Search online for credible lists of what to store.✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows flash drives. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Gather and Store Important Docs.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 18

Cooking beans from scratch + making homegrown tomato sauce + freezing them = steps toward
✅Building #CollapseResilience
✅Saving money
✅Relying less on vulnerable systems
✅Living our values.

What resilience steps are you taking in your kitchen?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows jars of frozen black and garbanzo beans and tomato sauce.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Let us remind ourselves of the lessons of the good German. To sit there and avert one’s eyes. To pretend to one’s self that 'everything will be OK,' ...To cheerily smile, even as the Gestapos check papers, the men with guns patrol the streets, and the dictator shakes in a more demented...fury."

The Good German and the Good American

Or, What Fascism is Doing to Americans

umairhaque.substack.com

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 15

💧#CollapseResilience Challenge: map nearby surface water sources in your neighborhood—streams, lakes, swimming pools, water features, water heaters. Always filter + sanitize before drinking. Small steps now build survival + community strength later. ✋ 🐾 🌍💚

Image shows a neighborhood map with pin points on it. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Map Out Nearby Water Sources

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 11

Your #CollapseResilience Challenge: Build a simple hygiene kit for when systems fail.🚽Include:

🪣 5-gal buckets + lids
💺 Toilet seat
🌲 Shavings to cover waste/odor
🧼 Soap + sanitizer
🧻 TP or other eco-friendly wipes
🧤 Gloves + trash/compost bags

Image shows a bucket toilet, an extra bucket, and a package of wood shavings. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Build a Hygiene Kit.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 9

#CollapseResilience means remembering: our economic, healthcare, food, transportation & other systems aren’t set in stone. They were built—and can be rebuilt.

We can choose cooperation, care, and community over profit + exploitation.

Let's start with our daily choices.✋ 🐾 🌍💚

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 8

⏰ Act now — public comments are due by September 19, 2025

👉Find out more and see sample text:
www.calwild.org/roadlesscomm...
cdtcoalition.org/speak-up-for...

👉Make your comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

Please comment today and share to spread the word. ✋🐾🌍💚

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌲Protecting forests & other ecosystems is vital for #CollapseResilience.

The USDA is trying to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which currently protects ~45 million acres of our most wild & intact forests from new road-building, logging, mining & other destructive industrial development. 🧵(1/2)

Image shows a forest. Text says: Speak Up for the Roadless Rule.

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Sep 1

Collapse prep often assumes animals exist to be used. But oppression of animals, people, & planet is the same system. True #CollapseResilience means rejecting exploitation & embracing animals as interspecies partners in creating a future rooted in justice, care, and survival for all. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Aug 28

The second part offers suggestions for building community and mutual aid. Both are worth reading to determine what you can apply to your own situation. ✋🐾🌍💚

What to Do Now, Part II

Sharon Astyk published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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Collapse Resilience Collective @collapseresilience.bsky.social · Aug 28

The first part covers ways to impede those who want to harm our communities. 🧵 (2/3)

What We Do Now, Part 1

Sharon Astyk published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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