Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel is one of the experts included in this short film featuring the Potomac river as an example of he threats to the US river system. The film was top of the list in this weeks America's Most Endangered Rivers report released by American Rivers.
Next time you find yourself in traffic, try this nifty thought exercise. Ignore the cars within your field of vision and imagine instead the contents of their fuel tanks. Visualize gasoline flowing up and down the highway.
After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans now believe that “global warming is affecting the weather.”...As Yale’s Anthony Laiserowitz told theNew York Times, “People are starting to connect the dots.” We’re organizing a global day of action - climatedots.org.
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. It’s an opportunity to interact with the audience and take questions... Here are the top 11, along with brief sample replies and some resources for further reading.
An interview with Rob Hopkins to mark the release of In Transition 2.0 — an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations.
What might we learn from the construction, between 1438 and 1448 of the Hospital of St. John in Sherborne (see above) that might shape the way we think about construction … >>
Next time you find yourself in traffic, try this nifty thought exercise. Ignore the cars within your field of vision and imagine instead the contents of their fuel tanks. … >>
While waiting to see how the Iranian nuclear confrontation and the various Eurozone crises sort themselves out, there is time to step back and look at the interaction of … >>
The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, … >>
Last week we talked about the possibility that researchers have found a second and potentially useful and inexpensive way of converting hydrogen into helium accompanied by … >>
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. It’s an opportunity to … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Brian Schwartz's participation in a … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees' appearence on a panel at the … >>
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg's book The End … >>
Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's … >>
Post Carbon Water Fellow Sandra Postel is one of the … >>
Mike Grenville of Transition Forest Row, interviews … >>
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