https://dearcrisis.com/salons Recaps of every Dear Crisis gathering in Brooklyn, NYC — Metacrisis Salons and Resiliency Action Labs. en-us https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-3-rooftop-reciprocity https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-3-rooftop-reciprocity Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT We don't garden to give back to nature — we garden to come back to it. A barren rooftop corner becomes a pollinator habitat, a medicine cabinet, and a small act of rebellion against a food system more fragile than it looks. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-2-off-grid-comms https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-2-off-grid-comms Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT When the grid goes down — a blackout, a hurricane, a crowd that overwhelms the cell towers — the people who can still reach each other are the ones who set up their comms and practiced before they needed them. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-1-two-weeks-no-grid https://dearcrisis.com/salon/action-lab-1-two-weeks-no-grid Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Could your household make it fourteen days with no power, no water, no internet? The first Action Lab put a room of neighbors to work mapping the plan — bathtub to Berkey, Starlink to mesh, rice math to a backyard fire. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/11-how-we-build-an-ecocivilization https://dearcrisis.com/salon/11-how-we-build-an-ecocivilization Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The system isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was built to do — extract, exploit, accelerate. So we don't fix it. We build the one that makes it obsolete. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/10-is-climate-stabilization-still-possible https://dearcrisis.com/salon/10-is-climate-stabilization-still-possible Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT We are already engineering the planet — recklessly, as an externality, in the dirtiest, most inequitable way. The question isn't whether. It's whether to do it consciously, to understand what we are doing, and to apply rigorous scientific research to understand what could be done safely and responsibly from here. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/9-is-empire-collapsing https://dearcrisis.com/salon/9-is-empire-collapsing Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We are an egalitarian species. We keep building cages. AI is the newest one. https://dearcrisis.com/salon/8-disconnection-polarization https://dearcrisis.com/salon/8-disconnection-polarization Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT We're not divided on issues. We've become contemptuous of each other — and contempt is a different problem entirely.