Resilience Hub Toolkit


Decentralized, Modular, and Community-Owned Infrastructure for Climate Resilience

Start Local. Connect Globally. Share Widely.


The Vision


Empower every community with the tools to build resilience — together. As climate disruptions increase, we need shared infrastructure that supports both everyday connection and emergency response.

The Problem


“We know firsthand that policy solutions to climate collapse are not going to move quickly enough to protect our communities.”
— Community Resilience Organizations (CROs)
The technology currently being used for this website to exist emerges from systems that have destroyed sacred lifeways — Indigenous, Earth-rooted, co-created — in favor of speed, dominance, and scale.

The lands on which we live and create were once, and still are, held by peoples with deep-rooted relationships to place — relationships disrupted by colonization, genocide, and erasure.

The very fact that we seek connection through this disembodied tool is evidence of our disconnection. 

Furthurmore,
  • Local groups lack shared digital & print tools
  • Most digital platforms don't work offline
  • There's no easy, open-source way to coordinate mapping, needs, and updates
  • Participatory budgeting and local governance often get left out

Our Solution: Toolkit + Ecosystem


The Resilience Hub Toolkit is a collaborative, open-source suite of tools created by Community Resilience Organizations (CROs) and a cohort of grassroots organizers on the front lines of flooding in Vermont.

“CROs and a cohort of grassroots organizers... are collaboratively developing a network of autonomous, community-stewarded Resilience Hubs.”
— CROs
In parallel, we are designing the Local Directory — a community-driven, hybrid digital infrastructure that supports the use, distribution, and evolution of the Toolkit. Together, the Toolkit and the Local Directory form a resilience infrastructure built for a Just Transition.

The Resilience Hub Toolkit (by CROs)


“We’ll be building an understanding of what ‘resilience hubs’ are... identifying best practices from supply lists to social infrastructure, and developing a strategy for resourcing these hubs and getting them running.”
— CROs
  • Place-based, open-source, and modular
  • Built from grassroots needs and practices
  • Supports offline and online use
  • Grounded in mutual aid, cultural change, and community stewardship
  • To be shared with communities across Vermont in 2025

Local Directory (by access ecologies)


“...decentralized storytelling networks are peer-to-peer; they emerge from the collective space of audience participation.”
 — Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Before Everyone Was Talking About Decentralization, Decentralization Was Talking to Everyone
Developed to host and extend the Resilience Hub Toolkit:
  • Markdown + GeoJSON-based
  • Interactive maps (Leaflet)
  • Printable & zine-ready content
  • Runs on USB drives, Raspberry Pi, or local servers
  • Syncs across networks but works independently
  • Supports forking — meaning any community can copy and customize the Toolkit or directory to fit their local context
  • Encourages theming, translation, and decentralized adaptation
  • Integrates participatory design and co-governance practices



Rooted in Relationship


“CROs emerged after Hurricane Irene in 2011. We’re a grassroots organizing hub and technical assistance provider committed to climate and racial justice... a connector of community care and resilience networks.”
— CROs
We use this work to: 
  • Center stories that were erased
  • Build reciprocity into our infrastructure
  • Create spaces for grief, not just solutions
  • Root in place-based responsibility — not extractive scale

Winooski River Valley as a Headwaters Initiative


We’re starting in Central Vermont — launching across resilience hubs and community groups like CROs, through zines, mobile cafés, and pop-up events. This grounded, relational approach ensures the Local Directory and Toolkit are shaped by real-world use and shared by people, not imposed systems.

Scalable for a Global Movement


The framework is designed to be adapted by:
  • Climate justice groups
  • Mutual aid networks
  • Indigenous land stewards
  • Rights-of-nature movements

Built for:
  • Local ownership and global interconnection
  • Cultural translation and place-based adaptation
  • Emergent co-creation, not top-down deployment

“The resulting organization is wholly decentralized, distributed over all the components of the system. As such, the organization is typically robust and able to survive or self-repair substantial perturbation.”
— river burns

Funding & Next Steps


  • Build a full-featured prototype of the Local Directory
  • Support CROs’ ongoing development of the Toolkit
  • Host training and onboarding sessions
  • Expand zine/print distribution
  • Onboard collaborators and funders
  • Develop offline and mesh-compatible capabilities


Our Ask


Join us in shaping the present moment of climate resilience infrastructure:

  • Fund the Resilience Hub Toolkit by CROs and the Local Directory ecosystem
  • Collaborate on content, interface, and co-design
  • Distribute and test the Toolkit in your region

What if planetary well-being became the center of our culture?


— unknown 







access ecologies

i logged in from unceded
Abenaki territory,
 N’dakinna. how about you?