Every Dear Crisis gathering in Brooklyn, NYC — distilled. Monthly Metacrisis Salons and hands-on Resiliency Action Labs.
Resiliency Action Lab #3 · June 28, 2026
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.
Metacrisis Salon #11 · June 6, 2026
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.
Jeremy Lent
Resiliency Action Lab #2 · June 25, 2026
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.
Spike · Signals Rising
Metacrisis Salon #10 · May 16, 2026
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.
Kelly Erhart
Resiliency Action Lab #1 · June 23, 2026
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.
Metacrisis Salon #9 · April 18, 2026
We are an egalitarian species. We keep building cages. AI is the newest one.
Luke Kemp · Samantha Sweetwater
Metacrisis Salon #8 · February 21, 2026
We're not divided on issues. We've become contemptuous of each other — and contempt is a different problem entirely.
Emily Graham · Shia Levitt