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The Post Carbon Reader By the Numbers
It took a village (including you!) to write the Post Carbon Reader, and it will take an even bigger community to ensure the message gets heard.
The Post Carbon Reader represents:
- 39 lifetimes of learning, which the authors poured into 34 chapters and 552 pages.
- A year's worth of thinking, planning, collaborating, writing, and editing.
- A month's worth of waiting anxiously each day for the books to arrive.
- Hundreds of generous contributions from PCI supporters like you!
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the post carbon reader
September saw the release of further exclusive articles from our brand new book the Post Carbon Reader.
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WASTE: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste
Report by Bill Sheehan • September 27, 2010
We in rich contries have almost lost the ability to supply our own needs through local manufacturing and agriculture--or even to extend the life of products through reuse, repair and repurposing. We rely on others, and on a system lubricated by cheap oil... Read more |
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BUILDING RESILIENCE: What Can Communities Do?
Report by Rob Hopkins • September 13, 2010
It is my observation, through seeing what groups inspired by Transition have done, that happiness and fulfillment are achieved through meaningful activity, and meaningful activity needs to happen with other people... Read more |
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post carbon exchange #3
Follow our Post Carbon Exchange series in which our Fellows and experts speak about the issues facing us and responses to them.
Richard Gilbert in conversation with David Bragdon
 Post Carbon Adviser Richard Gilbert and newly appointed Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for New York City David Bragdon discuss the future of transportation systems as we near the end of cheap oil. What are the solutions? How will we get there? Are we facing the end of the internal combustion engine? ... View video |
latest publications
Read, watch or listen to the latest content by our Fellows, Board and Staff anytime on our website. Here are some selections from the last month:
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Economics for the Hurried — Part 1
Article by Richard Heinberg • September 29, 2010
Over the next few months, most of my MuseLetters and posts will be excerpts from a new book-in-progress with the working title 'The End of Growth'. Only some of the book's contents will be serialized this way.... Read more |
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Groundwater Depletion Raises Likelihood of Global Food Crises
Post by Sandra Postel • September 27, 2010
Out of sight, out of mind means deep trouble when it comes to the reserves of freshwater stored underground. New numbers are out on the rate of groundwater depletion around the globe, and if they hold up to further scrutiny... Read more |
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MAN UP! It's Time to Suck the Oceans Dry
Post by Tod Brilliant • September 22, 2010
So I did something this week that I've never done before: I purchased a copy of Newsweek. On the cover, the headline shouts MAN UP! I just couldn't resist because, well, I've been meaning to do that for some time... Read more |
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Will You Help With Re-Writing the Transition Handbook? / Rethinking Transition as a Pattern Language
Post by Rob Hopkins • September 22, 2010
Over the coming few months I will be sharing with you the ongoing work in developing the patterns-based model of Transition that will form the centrepiece... Read more |
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Can civilization survive the end of oil?
Interview with Richard Heinberg • September 17, 2010
Heinberg says we need to begin planning for a "steady state" economy that runs on a lot less energy - most, if not all of it, from renewable sources. But for different reasons he says government leaders, business officials and environmental groups... Listen |
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My Road Trip With a Solar Rock Star Or Notes on the Enthusiasm Gap
Post by Bill McKibben • September 16, 2010
I got to see the now-famous enthusiasm gap up close and personal last week, and it wasn't a pretty sight. The backstory... Read more |
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Measuring and Marketing in Japan's Eco-Model Cities
Post by Warren Karlenzig • September 21, 2010
Japan's national Eco-Model Cities program has set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction goals in 13 of its urban areas, from small towns to some of its largest cities... Read more |
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Pelosi's Probe: Oil Sands & America's Addiction to Oil
Post by David Hughes • September 10, 2010
US House of Representatives Speaker and California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi arrived in Canada last week ostensibly to get the real goods on Alberta's oil sands... Read more |
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Shovels and Ballots... Getting to Work on 10/10/10
Article by Asher Miller • September 9, 2010
After major disappointments in Copenhagen and Washington D.C., millions of us concerned about the climate crisis have been left wondering "what now?". The stakes couldn't be higher, and the political and infrastructural challenges... Read more |
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Politics in the Great Transition
Post by Tom Whipple • September 8, 2010
Someday there will be thousands of scholarly books on how political systems coped or failed during the transition from fossil fuel-sustained civilizations to that which is to come. For now, however, there are practically none... Read more |
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Bill McKibben on David Letterman
Interview with Bill McKibben • August 11, 2010
Bill lays out the case for the need to get back to 350 ppm, talks about the momentum building for 10/10/10, and announces our upcoming road trip to take one of President Carter's original solar panels back to the White House... Read more |
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Special $10 YES! Subscription for Post Carbon Institute Supporters
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Here's a very special offer for Post Carbon Institute supporters that we're excited to pass along. YES! Magazine has a great new edition out on building community resilience. Their Resilient Community issue looks at what Americans can do now to prepare for the uncertainties of economic collapse, extreme weather, and looming oil shortages. In a gorgeous 35-page section, YES! offers fresh insights and useful how-tos for individuals seeking to build more resiliency in their own homes and neighborhoods, and for communities getting ready for anything.
The Resilient Community issue showcases the Transition Town movement prominently—and Post Carbon Institute is spotlighted as a featured partner. |
We're delighted to offer you the chance to get this fabulous issue of YES! Magazine as part of a special introductory offer for Post Carbon Institute supporters: Subscribe to YES! today and get four beautiful, ad-free issues-for just $10 (regular price $24). Resilient Community will be the first issue in your subscription!
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take action
Are you looking for suggestions of meaningful actions you can take to respond to the issues facing us? PCI is supporting our allies and friends in their campaigns. Keep an eye on the 'take action' block on our home page for more.
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Join the 350.org party! - 10/10/10
Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar. That's the date. We're calling it a Global Work Party, with emphasis on both 'work' and 'party'. We want to send a message to politicians: if we can get to work on climate change, you can get to work too.
Sign up to host a local event, or search for an event to join. Find great ideas for for your party here. |
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fellows and advisers in the press
energy bulletin highlights
Below is a selection of recent articles and media appearing on Energy Bulletin.
energy bulletin featured articles
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Why words matter
by Alan Wartes, The Story of Here
Here's something we've forgotten that poets, shamans, healers, and sorcerers (a healer's dark opposite) have known for millennia: words matter. The power of a curse and a blessing—and the difference between the two...Read more |
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Five reasons to plant trees now
by Christine Patton, Peak Oil Hausfrau
To some people, planting a tree is the epitome of the environmental cliche. Planting a tree seems so simple, so easy, so... low-technology...why should we plant trees? What good could it possibly do?...Read more |
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Steel, cycling and Steeltown
by Undustrial, Raise the Hammer
Hamilton's current industrial base will not survive the end of the automobile era. Bicycles could help save it. As the effects of Peak Oil make themselves felt, they will go far beyond gas prices... Read more |
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Exclusive interview: Robert Hirsch
by Matthieu Auzanneau, Oil Man (blog), Le Monde
James Schlesinger, President Carter's Energy Secretary, wrote the foreword to a book written by Dr Robert Hirsch, an former US official who predicts a fall of the oil production within 5 years...Read more |
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Peak Moment 179: Fences down! Fostering community in an urban neighborhood
by Yuba Gals Independent Media, Peak Moment Television
Gardens replace driveways, a chicken coop replaces a garage, and personal relationships are deepening. Meet the residents of three adjoining houses, who removed the fences and talk about shared projects (and their one auto!)... Watch |
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Exploring Ethnobiology III
by Jon Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner
In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being hosted. Ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems... Listen |
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Food Corps, help with the harvest, and From the ground up
by Dov Hirsch, Crop to Cuisine
This week on Crop To Cuisine we speak with Curt Ellis of the award winning documentary, King Corn, about his new projects, Food Corps and Truck Farm... Listen |
transition US update
A monthly update from the US regional hub of the international Transition movement.
 With less than 2 weeks to go, over 4400 events are being planned in 174 countries around the world to celebrate climate solutions. Transition Initiatives across North America, are stepping up to organize for the 10/10/10 Global Work Party with events including an Energy & Community Resilience Fair in Carrboro-Chapel Hill, NC to Transition Reno's Great Unleashing, to Permablitzs in Houston, TX, to a Barter Fair in Northeast Seattle, WA...Read more.
Earlier this month, 78 Transition leaders from Northwest US states and neighboring Canadian provinces met in Seattle to inspire, support and educate each other for the 2010 Transition Cascadia Summit. The event was the first regional Transition gathering in the Northwest, but already, we are looking forward to the next. Find a recap of the day complete with video and audio recordings, as well as notes from the sessions here.
For more stories, resources and events, visit www.transitionus.org. |
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events
View our events calendar
 ASPO USA 2010 Oil Conference
October 7-9, 2010, Washington, DC
Post Carbon Fellows Chris Martenson and Tom Whipple, and Post Carbon Board President Debbie Cook will all be speakers at the 2010 ASPO USA conference.
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 TEDx-Midwest - Majora Carter
October 14-15, 2010, Chicago, Il
Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter will be exploring the new Detroit urban farming movement. TED is an annual event where some of the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about.
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 7th Annual Bioneers in Alaska: Creating Sustainable Communities
October 15-17, 2010, Anchorage, AL
The theme for this years conference is Community Resiliency. Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will be delivering the keynote address at this year's conference on Building Resilient Communities.
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 Iowa Environmental Council Annual Conference 2010
October 15, 2010, Des Moines, IA
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben will keynote the 2010 Iowa Environmental Council Annual Conference, held in downtown Des Moines.
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 Portland State University - Solutions Seminars
November 3, 2010, Portland, OR
Post Carbon Fellow Joshua Farley will be speaking in the Solutions Seminar series presented by the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University.
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 Green Festival San Francisco 2010
November 6-7, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben will be a speaker at the 2010 Green Festival in San Francisco. The event also includes other speakers including Amy Goodman, as well as music, the chance to learn skills and kids activities.
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 The Global Summit II - 2010
November 8-10, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Post Carbon Executive Director Asher Miller will take part in this year's Global Summit II taking place at the Mason Centre in San Francisco.
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 Midtown Transition Town and Neighborhood Sustainability Networking Gathering
November 13, 2010, Midtown, MN
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will deliver the keynote speech at the Midtown Transition Town and Neighborhood Sustainability Networking Gathering. The event kicks off with Richard's presentation at 1.00pm.
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 Ten+One conference
November 29, 2010, Bradford, UK
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins will speak on Community, Enterprise and Transition - closing loops locally while adding prosperity: micro - dairies, energy crops, community supported business.
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 CFSA Sustainable Agriculture Conference - 2010
December 3-5, 2010, Midtown, MN
The keynote speaker at this year's conference will be Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman. The theme this year is, "Local & Organic Arrives: Our Opportunity is Now."
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Image credit: ink on paper cityscape — Joseph Szymanski
Image credit: US map of fuels or energy sources used for electrical generation. — doe.eia.gov
Image credit: Raleigh Safety Bike — Nottinghamshire City Council
Image credit: Robert Hirsch — Matthieu Auzanneau
Image credit: Transition Cascadia Summit Shelby Tay/flickr
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