Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane
Rob Hopkins May 17, 2013
In November 2006, I sat at the back of the Barn Cinema, Dartington, and watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘. It had such an impact on me that by the time it … >>
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Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane
What haunts me every day, and no doubt will for the rest of my days, is what I will reply to my grandchildren when they ask me what I did during the time when climate change could have been brought under some sort of control...
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Governance in the Long Emergency
It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually?
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South African Anti-Fracking Activist Calls for Global Alliance
With no prior experience in grassroots organizing, Deal orchestrated a campaign against fracking in South Africa to protect the Karoo, a semi-desert region of the eastern Cape that he had come to know and love.
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Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks
Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it seemed like we could blame the farmer, the processor, and the distributor for our food energy woes, lo and behold, our constant culinary vacillations between hot and cold have conspired to put the American kitchen in the crosshairs of our food energy hunt.
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How anti-coal campaigners are protecting Australia’s economy
Irony doesn’t get any better than this. Environmentalists and farmers fighting the expansion of coal mining and coal seam gas across Australia are protecting the economy.
latest publications
The Peak Oil Crisis: Supply Shock
Tom Whipple May 17, 2013
A new phrase, “supply shock,” entered the lexicon of the global oil business this week when the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that unexpectedly … >>
Counting the Calories and calories
Philip Ackerman-Leist May 16, 2013
As soon as we step out of our homes in pursuit of food, we cross an energy threshold that is worth considering. >>
Governance in the Long Emergency
David Orr May 15, 2013
It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually? >>
South African Anti-Fracking Activist Calls for Global Alliance
Sandra Postel May 14, 2013
Anti-fracking activist Jonathan Deal, winner of a 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, discusses strategy to save the Karoo region of his native South Africa from gas … >>
Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks
Philip Ackerman-Leist May 13, 2013
Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it seemed like we could blame the farmer, the processor, and the distributor for our food energy woes, lo and behold, our constant culinary vacillations between hot and cold have conspired to put the American kitchen in the crosshairs of our food energy hunt. >>
in the news
Shuman and Local Dollars Local Sense in the Credit Union Times
Michael Shuman May 15, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman and his book Local … >>
Hughes presentation to EU conference reported
David Hughes May 15, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes' recent presentation to an … >>
Rebuilding the Foodshed reviewed at Culinate
Philip Ackerman-Leist May 14, 2013
Rebuilding the Foodshed, the latest Post Carbon Resilience … >>
media
Share Spray: A New Way To Do Everything
5:34 May 17, 2013
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Excerpt from Heinberg: Adapting to the "New Normal" - Financial limits
5:34 May 15, 2013
From Richard's speech at The New Economics Institute … >>
Locus Focus: Rebuilding the foodshed - a conversation with Phillip Ackerman-Leist (audio)
May 8, 2013
We live at a time of transition: when factory-farmed food … >>
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