The massive wildfire driving the inhabitants of Fort McMurray, Alberta, and surroundings reminded me of the issue of fire protection, both urban and rural.
Here is some permaculture advice on fire protection in rural areas, from Bill Mollison, the Australian permaculture pioneer. If you're new to the miracles of permaculture, I included two short video clips. More below.

Job one in becoming a more resilient person is the constant work of making one’s mind more resilient. Could I really become more resilient when my mind is so fragile and I am so anxious? Yes, I can. As long as I can still learn new things. Otherwise, sadly, no.
I’m going through a few days at the moment where my mind is very fragile: anxious, brittle, scattered and unfocused. Perhaps there are times when you know the same.
When I realized what was happening inside, I went to reread something that works for me in fragile mind-states: a Taoist teaching called wu-wei. More below.

Thinking clearly about money is one of the biggest challenges to personal and family resilience. Resilient families get the trade-off between time and money right. Lovie and I have made our mistakes along the way, but 25 years later, we know we had made the appropriate trade-off, right at the start of our relationship, between money and time. I would like to lay out our thinking in conjunction with then law professor, now U.S. senator, Elizabeth Warren.

Hello resilient friends, I would like to introduce to you Low-Tech Magazine: Doubts On Progress and Technology, one of the most resourceful (stuffed with resources, in fact :=) free online magazines out there.
Here is today's email delivery: an intriguing article on the return of DC power and it's potential. An extract and the link below.

Martha published an intriguing essay on how our local Post offices could help lead the way into resiliency for our local communities.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-let-post-offices-lead-way
She challenged us to a thought experiment on how to make this vision practical. So last night I did a back-of-the-napkin sketch of a plan for making the vision practical. As usual, I babbled on endlessly :=) I post it here as a departure point for a c99 brainstorming session on transforming our Post Offices from the ground up.
See, what little public thinking there is about revitalizing our Post Offices after decades of corporatist kneecapping, is all about the national vision. We all know that top-down revitalization is nevah gonna happen. Unless, unless, we the people begin to transform our local PO branches from the ground up, beginning in our local communities - neighbourhoods, suburbs, villages, rural towns, small towns. So how would we do it? Where would we start? Let me show you below.

Hello, resilient friends, let's open discussion on reducing electricity usage in the household. We'll come back to this topic room by room, but for today, let's look at the home workshop. This essay describes what I've learned so far, hoping that you would contribute what you know about air tools and reducing electricity use in the garage/workshop. More below.

This is a brief reflection on our 3-year old Golden Retriever named Lady; hoping that you would contribute your stories and we would discuss how pets and working animals make us more of everything: more human, more resilient, more happy, more safe, more compassionate, more healthy, and so forth. More below.

Welcome c99 friends, to the new Resilience Group. We're hoping to create a place ("where everybody knows your name" :=) for folks interested in resilience for themselves and for their local community. More below.