The Response

How do we respond to natural disasters? What comes to mind? Large relief organizations like the American Red Cross? Or perhaps the Federal Emergency and Management Agency? Well, those images are cert…

Today on the show, we’ve brought on Genean from Common Humanity Collective — a mutual aid organization based out of California’s Bay Area.

When the pandemic began in 2020, it felt like there was a hu…

This week, we’re bringing you the first installment of a new series that we'll occasionally produce: Disaster Dispatches. Each dispatch focuses on a specific disaster and will feature a short convers…

The last decade has shown us that information on social media cannot always be trusted. In fact, it's oftentimes weaponized by nefarious forces. So how do we ensure that the information that is being…

Mutual aid is a concept and practice that has come up many times in the stories we tell on The Response — so we thought it would be helpful to devote an entire episode to exploring what mutual aid is…

In the second of this 2-part series of The Response, we pick up where we left off in Episode 1 and continue our deep dive into how communities are responding to the growing abortion access crisis in …

In the first of this 2-part series of The Response, we take a deep dive into how communities are responding to the growing abortion access crisis in the United States, sharing the stories of those im…

Short: For the 10th audio documentary episode of The Response, we’re going to focus on the war in Ukraine. As the fighting grinds on, what kinds of soli…

On this week's episode of Shareable's The Response podcast, we’re continuing to delve into community-rooted responses to disasters in California, from the fires to th…

This week, we're continuing our collaboration with the Rise-Home Stories Project to bring you the first episode of BUT NEXT TIME, a limited-run podcast that spotlights powerful stories of community-l…

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing episodes from BUT NEXT TIME, a limited-run podcast that spotlights powerful stories of community-led disaster prevention and recovery. 

Sounds familiar, righ…

The Response is an award-winning documentary film, book, and podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llew…

The Response is an award-winning documentary film, book, and podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llew…

This weekend marks the beginning of COP26. After being delayed for nearly a year because of COVID, diplomats, scientists, corporate lobbyists, NGOs, students, demonstrators, corporations, heads of st…

In this bonus episode, Bob Stilger recounts his experience in Japan following the triple disaster of 2011 and shares how one community that was completely wiped away by the Tsunami, took the opportun…

Last week we participated in a panel discussion during the Regenerative Communities Summit where we talked about how Crisis can be a Catalyst for Transformation. 

This episode features a recording of…

The Response is officially back for a 4th season. Over the next few months, we’ll be increasing the frequency of the show and releasing new episodes at least every other week. We’ve already got a num…

The Response is a podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llewellyn.

Today is the four-year anniversary o…