Resilience in Major Sectors (Manufacturing, Transportation, and Buildings) Art Call

“Manufacturing, transportation, and buildings use energy to provide goods and services; transforming these sectors will entail finding ways to use less energy for these purposes, ways to use it that suit renewable energy sources, and ways to provide for human needs while using fewer material resources and producing less pollution. Land use planning touches on every aspect of local government concern, involving decisions on air quality, water quality, biodiversity, transportation options, economic vitality, and quality of life. And sound public policy is essential to community resilience efforts—with the recognition that imposing policies from above without adequate understanding of, or support for, those policies from community members will lead to political failure.” 
– Richard Heinberg

THE ART CALL DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED
TO MARCH 31, 2024

WNFE art call resilience in major sectors 1

You are invited to participate in @WhatsNextForEarth’s art call, Resilience in Major Sectors (Manufacturing, Transportation, and Buildings), open until March 15, 2024. What’s Next for Earth is a participative art project on Instagram that invites artists to respond to a series of topics, reflecting on the poly-crises. An online exhibition will be on view on this website and the MAHB website in the arts section.

What’s Next for Earth is following the Think Resilience course by Post Carbon Institute, one lesson at a time. Resilience in Major Sectors (Manufacturing, Transportation, and Buildings) is part of the last chapter of the course, Chapter 6. (scroll down to see the course description).

How to participate

Important note: You need a public Instagram account to participate in What’s Next for Earth.

Sign up for the THINK RESILIENCE FREE ONLINE COURSE if you have not done it before. The best is to watch all the lessons before this one to get an overview of the poly-crises. Each video is related to the previous one. If you do not have the time, PLEASE READ THE VIDEO TRANSCRIPT of “Resilience in Major Sectors (Manufacturing, Transportation, and Buildings)” lesson 21.

1. Please make artwork or share a project in response to the Think Resilience lesson #21: Resilience in Major Sectors (Manufacturing, Transportation, and Buildings).

2. Post it on your Instagram page. Please include a description of your piece in your photo’s caption:
– Title, technique, size,
– Explain how it relates to the theme,
– Choose an excerpt of the lesson (you can copy and paste from the video transcript).

3. Copy and paste all these tags at the end of your description – select the whole list (from top to bottom), and copy and paste them in your post right after the description of your piece:

#WhatsNextForEarth
#resilienceinmajorsectors
@WhatsNextForEarth
@mahbglobal
@postcarboninstitute
#ecoart
#artactivism
#humanpredicament
#mahbartscommunity
#anthropocene
#climateemergency
#climatechange
#codered
#UprootTheSystem
#EndFossilFuels
#TellTheTruth
#BlahBlahBlah

Follow What’s Next for Earth on Instagram!

If you have any questions, please send an email to: info@whatsnextforearth.com

Think Resilience Course

“Acting without this understanding
is like putting a bandage on a life-threatening injury.”

Richard Heinberg 2015
Richard Heinberg

Think Resilience is hosted by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s leading experts on the urgency and challenges of moving society away from fossil fuels.

We live in a time of tremendous political, environmental, and economic upheaval. What should we do?

Think Resilience is an online course offered by Post Carbon Institute to help you get started on doing something. It features twenty-two video lectures—about four hours total—by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. Think Resilience is rooted in Post Carbon Institute’s years of work in energy literacy and community resilience. It packs a lot of information into four hours, and by the end of the course you’ll have good start on two important skills:

1. How to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces. What are the underlying, systemic forces at play? What brought us to this place? Acting without this understanding is like putting a bandage on a life-threatening injury.

2. How to build community resilience. While we must also act in our individual lives and as national and global citizens, building the resilience of our communities is an essential response to the 21st century’s multiple sustainability crises.

The links take you to the corresponding What’s Next for Earth’s online exhibitions:

CHAPTER 1: Our Converging Crises

Lesson 2 – Energy
Lesson 3 – Population and Consumption
Lesson 4 – Depletion
Lesson 5 – Pollution

CHAPTER 2: The Roots and Results of Our Crises

Lesson 6 – Social Structure
Lesson 7 – Belief Systems
Lesson 8 – Biodiversity
Lesson 9 – Collapse

CHAPTER 3: Making Change

Lesson 10 – Thinking in Systems
Lesson 11 – Shifting Cultural Stories
Lesson 12 – Culture Change & Neuroscience

CHAPTER 4: Resilience Thinking

Lesson 13 – What is Resilience?
Lesson 14 – Community Resilience in the 21st Century
Lesson 15 – Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience

CHAPTER 5 – Economy and Society

Lesson 16 – How Globalization Undermines Resilience
Lesson 17 – Economic Relocalization
Lesson 18 – Social Justice
Lesson 19 – Education

CHAPTER 6 – Basic Needs and Functions

Lesson 20 – Meeting Essential Community Needs
Lesson 21 – Resilience in Major Sectors
Lesson 22 – Review, Assessment & Action

Think Resilience is hosted by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s leading experts on the urgency and challenges of moving society away from fossil fuels.

We live in a time of tremendous political, environmental, and economic upheaval. What should we do? Think Resilience is an online course offered by Post Carbon Institute to help you get started on doing something. It features twenty-two video lectures—about four hours total—by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. Think Resilience is rooted in Post Carbon Institute’s years of work in energy literacy and community resilience. It packs a lot of information into four hours, and by the end of the course you’ll have a good start on two important skills:

1. How to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces. What are the underlying, systemic forces at play? What brought us to this place? Acting without this understanding is like putting a bandage on a life-threatening injury.

2. How to build community resilience. While we must also act in our individual lives and as national and global citizens, building the resilience of our communities is an essential response to the 21st century’s multiple sustainability crises.

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