So for this week, we are all reading the first half of the book, Resilience Thinking, by Brian Walker and David Salt, the book from where our blog’s title is borrowed. We read their first chapter for our very first discussion in January. It is an appropriate time to return to this volume, after our discussions on the basics of the theory–what I find appealing about this volume is that it is not just written by a resilience theorist and natural scientist. The natural scientist is Brian Walker, who appeared in the YouTube video that also began this blog. Walker however knew that to really “apply” resilience thinking, it had to be made much more understandable to a general public–that is why he co-authored this volume with David Salt, a science writer. Communicating complicated theories like resilience–especially theories that go against how most people conceptualize nature and management “working”–requires skill. So the chapters that we read this week return to the same theories that we have been reading in the peer review literature, but they are being discussed in ways that attempt to “democratize” knowledge about social-ecological resilience. How can we change toward more sustainable practices if the general (voting!) public does not shift its ways of thinking about how nature and society works? I wonder whether Andrew, Nicole, and Laura will think they simplify things too much, or if the narratives are successful examples of good scientific communication?