If you’re interested in where the ideas we discuss on Lifepod first took form, why not check out my 2024 book Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire, available directly from Verso?

Lifehouse recovers 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.

Here’s what some folks I really respect have had to say about the book:

”Mixing clear-eyed, unwavering analysis with deep compassion, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction.” - Jenny Odell, author of How To Do Nothing

”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

”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

”Anyone interested in collective survival will benefit from Greenfield’s examinations of episodes of transformative communal care…That he then knots the threads of permanent disaster and local response into a clear-eyed proposal for enduring networks of mutual support networks is something like hope-in-action: refreshing, provocative, and within our reach.” - Erin Kissane, co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project

”Knowing we can’t rely upon governments, corporations or elites to protect us from the ongoing disasters we now face, above all climate change, Adam Greenfeld movingly celebrates the grassroots mutual aid and caring collectivities that have sustained people through past calamities. Aware that such self-organised, compassionate caring is more needed than ever today, Greenfield’s vivid, erudite and persuasive prose outlines the many ways in which people can, and for their own survival must, work together confronting the challenging goal of creating local autonomous communities, or Lifehouses, now necessary for enduring the storms ahead. An inspiring text in pessimistic times.” - Lynne Segal, author of Lean on Me: A Radical Politics of Care