The Softer Side of Sustainability
Zenobia Barlow Mar 8, 2010
One reason I like to host seminars at the Center for Ecoliteracy is that you never know who is going to show up. Last August, one of the 80 people who participated in our … >>
Highlights
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Life After Growth
It's an uncomfortable idea, but one that cannot be ignored: The "normal" late-20th century economy of seemingly endless growth actually emerged from an aberrant set of conditions that cannot be perpetuated...
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Senator Graham shouts “Play Ball!”
It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the politics of climate legislation to hear Senator Lindsey Graham pronounce, “the cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead.”
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The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It’s the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century
The campaign against climate science has been enormously clever, and enormously effective. It’s worth trying to understand how they’ve done it. The best analogy, I think, is to the O.J. Simpson trial...
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Food Security and Peak Oil: a Message to Local Citizens and Leadership
I’d like to see community leaders ask people to consider themselves as contributors rather than consumers. The whole consumer identity should become passé...
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Chris Martenson speaks at Houses of Parliament
Chris Martenson, presented to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas on the issue of Peak Oil and Economic Growth.
latest publications
We're All Sunk
Asher Miller Mar 6, 2010 2 comments
sunk cost [suhngk kawst]: Cost already incurred which cannot be recovered regardless of future events. It's almost too easy to vilify corporations. What, with all the … >>
Food Security and Peak Oil: a Message to Local Citizens and Leadership
Jason Bradford Mar 4, 2010 2 comments
The following is the prepared text for a talk I gave in the city hall of Eugene Oregon the evening of Feb. 17, 2010. It was organized by two Lane County commissioners and … >>
The Peak Oil Crisis: China’s Year of the Tiger
Tom Whipple Mar 4, 2010
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly likely that the future of our gasoline prices and consequently our economic well-being over the next few years will be … >>
Urban Resilience Planning for Dummies
Warren Karlenzig Mar 4, 2010
With all the efforts going into urban climate action plans and carbon reduction, will many cities and suburbs be caught unprepared for other sustainability crises, such … >>
Life After Growth
Richard Heinberg Mar 3, 2010 11 comments
What if the economy doesn't recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer … >>
in the news
Shuman quoted in National Ledger 10 Steps to Local Economy
Michael Shuman Mar 8, 2010
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman was quoted in this piece … >>
Heinberg cited in Miller McCune article questioning 'clean coal'
Richard Heinberg Feb 25, 2010
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg's work on coal … >>
McKibben Op-ed on climate change and denial in the LA Times
Bill McKibben Feb 24, 2010
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben's op-ed 'The OJ Tactic' … >>
media
Chris Martenson speaks in Grand Committee Room, Houses of Parliament
32:42 Feb 23, 2010
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson, presented to the All … >>
Our Food...Our Growing Power (audio)
56:51 Feb 1, 2010
Post carbon Fellow Erika Allen, Chicago Projects Manager … >>
Heinberg: Beyond Copenhagen
20:03 Feb 1, 2010
Are current corporate-dominated international institutions … >>
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