"Featured blogs" include posts from Post Carbon Institute-published blogs.
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Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri May 9 2008, 4:04pmLast Wednesday John Kaufmann, Jennifer Brost-Sarnecki and I held a session on "Responding to Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty" at the annual American Planning Association... (read more) -
Posted by julian darley, Sat May 3 2008, 7:15pmAs U.S. gasoline prices crest the astronomical price of four dollars a gallon, many Americans are complaining that prices are too high to bear. They... (read more) - Posted by julian darley, Sat May 3 2008, 7:13pm‘Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’. It looks like the severe food problems long predicted by some agriculture, climate and peak analysts... (read more)
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Posted by laurel, Fri May 2 2008, 3:38pmI'm proud of my city this week: an article in our regional newspaper, The Oregonian, boasts that Portland is the first major U.S. metro area... (read more) -
Posted by Richard Heinberg, Fri Apr 25 2008, 8:02amThere is a surreal quality to the experience of seeing the unfolding of unpleasant events that one has predicted. Plenty of times over the past... (read more) - Posted by Daniel Lerch, Thu Apr 24 2008, 8:53amThis year's American Planning Association conference is in Las Vegas next week, and while the theme for 2008 isn't exactly "sustainability", there are a lot... (read more)
- Posted by julian darley, Thu Apr 10 2008, 11:26pmIn a startling and some say brilliant dash of technological ingenuity, major airlines are discussing converting aircraft - which they can no longer afford to... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Tue Apr 1 2008, 2:14pmI'm on the road for another set of presentations for the Post Carbon Cities book -- this time in Ireland courtesy of the Cultivate Centre... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri Mar 14 2008, 9:24amWe've had a few minor surprises here at Post Carbon Cities over the last few days. First: The day after the price of oil burst through... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Wed Mar 5 2008, 2:08pm"If I only had a time machine..." Since we started tracking local government responses to peak oil over a year ago, our little map has filled... (read more)
- Posted by Richard Heinberg, Fri Feb 29 2008, 2:26pmAwareness of Peak Oil, Climate Change, impending global economic implosion, topsoil depletion, biodiversity collapse, and the thousand other dire threats crashing down upon us at... (read more)
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Posted by richardbell, Mon Feb 18 2008, 8:50amBjorn Lomborg continues to surface in newspapers around the globe. There is, he claims, "a tsunami of nonsense" out there about global warming, and he's... (read more) - Posted by Daniel Lerch, Thu Feb 14 2008, 1:24pmPRESS RELEASE - 14 February 2007 U.S. city first to fight climate change and peak oil together by Daniel Lerch, Post Carbon Institute Many cities have plans in... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Sun Jan 27 2008, 5:58pmBy Daniel Lerch, Post Carbon Cities Program Manager Last week I escaped the cold, rainy Oregon winter for the even colder --but sunnier-- Minnesota winter. ... (read more)
- Posted by richardbell, Sat Jan 19 2008, 6:25pmOne of the most common attacks that Lomborg and his supporters make is to accuse people concerned about global warming of being “alarmists.” Take the... (read more)
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Posted by Celine Rich, Thu Jan 17 2008, 11:31amPost Carbon has just posted 3 jobs http://www.postcarbon.org/about/jobs : Relocalization Network Coordinator, Events Producer and Drupal Programmer. Can you please forward them to anyone or... (read more) - Posted by laurel, Tue Jan 15 2008, 5:17pmThe other day my friend Steve Darnley in "that other Portland" (i.e., Maine) sent me a link to an article about changes in his office... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Wed Jan 9 2008, 4:14pmHere at the Post Carbon Cities program we've got a lot to prepare for in the next few months, what with a two-day whirlwind tour... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Wed Dec 26 2007, 3:24pmForthcoming in HopeDance magazine By Daniel Lerch, Post Carbon Institute When I left New York City for Portland, Oregon nearly ten years ago, I was consciously turning... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri Nov 30 2007, 12:00am(16 November 2007, Toronto, Ontario) It's rather fitting to end the Post Carbon Cities book tour here in Toronto, home of the big urban... (read more)
