Transition Initiative:
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?
They begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model (explained here at length, and in bits here and here) with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative.
http://www.transitiontowns.org/
The Relocalization Network supports and connects groups as they work toward building strong communities.
http://www.relocalize.net/
resilience = Belastbarkeit, Strapazierfähigkeit, Widerstandsfähigkeit, Spannkraft, Elastizität