Crisis Cadres

Engineering Resilience

A blueprint for building self-sufficient communities that thrive in the face of collapse. Rather than scaping by alone, we're engineering resilience together.

The Case for Resilience

The old world is dying. This book is a manual for those who refuse to leave the future to chance.

Production

Turning scarcity into surplus. Soil into food, waste into fuel.

Procurement

Obtaining and managing resources through strategic foresight.

Education

Cultivating practical skills, not dead theories.

Security

Securing the means of survival through confident preparedness.

Author

About the Authors

The Salish Sea Cadre consists of systems thinkers, practical theorists, and advocates for community-led resilience. With a backgrounds in entrepreneurship, engineering, and sustainable systems design, our work focuses on creating actionable frameworks that empower groups to build autonomous, self-sufficient, and equitable futures.

Crisis Cadres is the culmination of years of research and hands-on experimentation, offering a pragmatic roadmap for anyone who believes that the best way to predict the future is to build it ourselves.

Get Your Copy

Download the complete e-book in PDF format to read offline, or continue reading the HTML version online.

Get Involved

Crisis Cadres operates like an open source project. See our chapter on how the project itself operates to learn how you can get involved or share your perspectives.