Collapse Resilience Collective

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CRC offers training, resources, and community to help build resilience and revolutionize how humans live so that all beings have an opportunity to survive and thrive.

Image shows a copy of the book The Veganic Grower’s Handbook by Jimmy Videle.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Margie Prideaux: “Most still experience climate breakdown as anticipation—abstract, distant, safely unreal. But millions are already living it as memory: heat, fire, flood, loss, and aftermath etched into nervous systems and daily life. They live with climate chaos fingerprints already pressed into their bodies and their memories.”
Image shows two people wearing N95 masks at an art show. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Wear Masks in Public.
World map of all the current wildfires worldwide.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Sarah C. White: “The autonomous individual is a cultural myth.”
Image shows a white bucket with a blue lid and black packets of bulk spices, such as curry powder and garlic. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Buy Spices in Bulk.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Malcolm Harris: “If you can find a way to bury the costs of your actions somewhere unseen, it’s as if they don’t exist, and you’re free to focus solely on counting your extra value.”
Image shows a box of baking soda, a box of cornstarch, and a metal container with homemade deodorant in it.
Image shows a wildfire headed toward a city at night. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Create an Evacuation Checklist.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Sahaja Serpent: “We must learn to depend on each other for our very lives: for food, shelter and safety from violence.”
Image shows a background of dehydrated fruits. Text shows the details for the Summer Bounty Dehydrating Workshop on Saturday, August 8, at 2 pm.
Image shows a background of serviceberries on bushes. Foreground is the book cover Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Scot Nakagawa: “Refusing to cooperate with systems that harm people requires simultaneously building alternative systems that care for people.”
Image shows a background of US money, and a foreground with a woman holding and cuddling a child. Text says: Take Action: Protect Families & Communities: Submit a public comment to oppose making ALL federal grants subject to “political” review.
Screenshot of NYT article. Image shows a restaurant owner standing in front of his Post-Modern Times restaurant. Headline says: This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Sharon Astyk: “Most of us like to lean into the idea that things will simply be fixed for us…. That’s why for years I’ve argued that the two positions of 99% of people on climate change were really ‘Climate change isn’t real so I don’t have to deal with it’ and ‘Climate change is real and serious so someone should definitely deal with it as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me too much.’ “
Image shows a digital map with different areas pinned. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Map Out Nearby Water Sources.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by William E. Rees: “In this light, it makes no sense to try to save the modern world. We are living a madness and must let it go.”
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.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Robin Wall Kimmerer: “Recognizing ‘enoughness’ is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more.”
Image shows silicone freezer trays with homemade black beans in them. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Batch Freeze Ingredients.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Kelly Hayes: “Survival is a collective process. We weren’t meant to do it alone, just as we weren’t meant to solve problems larger than ourselves alone. We are social beings who need each other to survive. Our courage and our potential are collective, and we will only find our way out of this together.”
Image shows a portable camping stove in use. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Test Your Emergency Gear (before you need it)!
Image shows a shelf of canned fruit. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Stock Up in Stages
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.”
Image shows a small white board with an inventory of the contents of a freezer. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Use a White Board to Track Freezer Inventory
Image shows old-growth trees and a tree branch graphic. Text is a quote by Tessa Simcox: “We have been brainwashed into believing that a degree, a job, a car, a house, a marriage, a baby, a holiday, and a retirement are the purpose of life. Collapse flips those myths upside down, and for most of us, it is too much to hold, too much to hold while continuing the motions that keep the very systems holding us hostage alive.”
Image shows frozen packages of zucchini and raspberries defrosting in a sink. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Don’t Let Mistakes Derail You.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, and Chris Begley: ’Basic traits like kindness, fairness, and empathy’ will be the basis of any sustainable, meaningful effort at collective survival.
Image shows a person’s hands giving books to another person’s hands. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Join Gifting/Trading Groups.
Image shows an empty grocery case with a sign mentioning items being out of stock due to supply issues.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from a NYT article: “Human use and exploitation of wildlife actually increases the risks of spillover… Wildlife, left alone in intact ecosystems, pose very little risk of spreading zoonotic disease to people.”
Image shows a rain barrel in a garden. Text says: Install rain barrels.
Image of a book cover: The Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide by Henry Latourette Miller
Image shows a lawn sign that says: “Whatever you allow your government to do to others, they will eventually do to you.”
Image shows a list on a fridge that shows meals made and the date they were made, as well as some defrosted ingredients. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Track Your Fridge Food.
Image shows a person’s hands wrapping another person’s arm in gauze. Text gives the details for the Disaster Triage workshop on May 2 at 2 pm in Portland, Oregon.
Image shows a smiling person standing in front of containers of sprouts and a laptop screen in a kitchen.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Terry LePage: “Living with less is not a failure. It is a vital part of respecting the limits of the nonhuman world.”
Image shows flash drives. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Gather and Store Important Docs.
Jars of seeds
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Shay Stewart-Bouley: “As long as our actions and events involve little in the way of personal risk and/or true disruption to the current systems, there is little chance of changing the course that the regime has set us upon.”
Image shows a gardener using a watering can to water crops. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Pee on Your Garden.
Image shows a hand holding a water Sillcock key.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Timothee Parrique: “Anything that has been socially constructed can be socially deconstructed.”
Image shows two hands holding medications. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock Extra Meds for Your Whole Family
Image shows a storage bin full of packages of soy curls with two packages of soy curls in front.
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.”
Image shows two 55-gallon water barrels, a 5-gallon water barrel, and a couple of 1-gallon jugs of water. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Store Extra Water.
Image shows a container of sprouts. Text says: Spring (& Winter) Greens Sprouting Workshop, Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 2 pm.
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.”
Background image is world map. Foreground image is a person with a thoughtful expression looking up. Text says: 4 Questions to Help Assess Your Collapse Resilience. Other slides show a series of questions.
Image shows homemade vegan ricotta.
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.
Image shows storage bins inside a larger storage bin. Text says: Collapse Resilience Quick Tip: Stock Up on Storage Bins.
Background image shows cows in a feedlot. Foreground image is a Vox pie chart showing what percentage (47%) of Colorado River water is used for growing feed for cows, as well as how the other uses are divided. Text says: About half of Colorado River water goes to growing feed for cows.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Max Wilbert: “It’s legal to clearcut forests, overpump groundwater, manufacture plastic, and burn oil. It is legal to release cancer-causing pollution and to bulldoze wild places....The rights of nature, meanwhile, are completely disregarded.”
Image shows toothpaste being put onto a toothbrush. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Practice Using Less.
Image show a shelf of veggie starts sprouting under grow lights.