Paper short abstract:

The paper examines a case of the Krk Island where a group of people tries to strengthen the island self-sustainability in order to forestall possible future uncertainties. This initiative started some 20 years ago and developed from the local marginal to the local mainstream initiative.

Paper long abstract:

Raising awareness about the uncertainty of our glocal futures has been present in public discourse, governmental strategies and academic researches as well. Environmental degradation and its various consequences (environmental, social and economic), wars, pandemic, shortages and/or high prices of food and energy and all other relevant markers of uncertain futures have, hopefully, managed to frighten the decision makers as well as the growing global population. Is this fear strong enough to foster real change it is yet to be seen. The number of wannabe moderate "doomsday preppers" is on the rise, at least rhetorically. However there is a growing number of people actively seeking the solution for diminishing the impact global uncertainties have on their local futures. The research carried out on the island of Krk started as an exploration of an, in Croatian context novel, emerging local energy sovereignty initiative - energy cooperative. However, obtaining energy sovereignty appeared to be just a part of the agenda of the local NGO and its main actor(s). Raising island self-sustainability turned out to be the main goal and this self-sustainability has many various, sometimes even conflicting facets. The number of people engaged with quite important local NGO actor started setting the course for a new type of development of local community some 20 years ago. The paper aims to reveal not only how the change was implemented locally, but also what kind of motivation and attitudes triggered that change.