An urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.
A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities. In this book I recover lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.
"Mixing clear-eyed, unwavering analysis with deep compassion, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction." - Jenny Odell, author of Saving Time
"When three emergencies — climate, political and social - build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than Adam Greenfield. Lifehouse constructs a much needed, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning." - Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land and director of Forensic Architecture
"A succinct, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us, and a nuanced, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate, local, collective direct action." - Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid