Leave it to the bombing campaign in Libya to remind us that the ongoing horror in Japan isn't the only thing to lose sleep over. Japan and the North Africa/Middle East region are each about five thousand miles away from us here in the US, in opposite directions, but we've got one eye glued on each these days. And with damned good reason.
Here are five lessons we've (re)learned in recent weeks
In other Institute news:...
we won!
PCI wins YouTube DoGooder nonprofit video award.
With all that's happening in Japan, Libya, and elsewhere, it feels strange to celebrate. But we want to thank all our supporters who, through their votes and spreading the word, helped PCI win the YouTube DoGooder nonprofit video award.
 Thousands of organizations participated and four were awarded the top prize. For this we are grateful and proud.
In our work, spreading the word can be incredibly difficult. Winning the award meant that 300 Years of Fossil Fuels was featured prominently on the front page of YouTube for a day. Consider that YouTube receives hundreds of millions of visitors daily and you can see why we consider this a real opportunity to get our message out. Thus far, the video has been viewed more than 800,000 times!
But now one our supporters has put out an even bigger challenge: To get Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg on The Daily Show with John Stewart, to talk about The End of Growth. The show takes suggestions on their website. So if you are a Facebook user and want Richard to be heard by millions of television viewers, please add your voice here. (Log in to your facebook account in the top right corner of the page.)
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the end of growth
In March we have continued to release draft content from Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg's new book The End of Growth, set for publication by New Society Publishers in September 2011. Richard has been giving interviews about the book, check out our media library to catch up on the latest.
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Won't Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?
While efficiency and substitution are key to our efforts to adapt to resource limits, they are incapable of removing those limits, and are themselves subject to the law of diminishing returns... Read more |
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Earth's Limits: Why Growth Won't Return - Climate Change, Pollution, Accidents, Environmental Decline, and Natural Disasters
Accidents and natural disasters have long histories; therefore it may seem peculiar at first to think that these could now suddenly become significant factors in choking off economic growth. However, two things have changed... Read more |
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Earth's Limits: Why Growth Won't Return - Water
There is now widespread concern among experts and responsible agencies that freshwater supplies around the world are being critically overused and degraded, so that water scarcity will increase dramatically as the century wears on... Read more |
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End of Growth: Heinberg on the Keiser Report
Interview with Richard Heinberg • March 21, 2011
An excellent interview with Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg asking searching questions about his upcoming book The End of Growth... Watch |
the post carbon reader
latest publications
Read, watch or listen to the latest content by our Fellows, Board, Advisers and Staff anytime on our website. Here are some selections from the last month:
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This World Water Day, Think --- Energy
Post by Sandra Postel • March 22, 2011
As Japan's nuclear power plant emergency has spotlighted, water is needed in copious quantities to generate energy. On this World Water Day, let's consider energy's huge slice of our water footprint pie.. Read more |
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Five Lessons from a Month in Hell
Post by Asher Miller • March 22, 2011
Leave it to the bombing campaign in Libya to remind us that the ongoing horror in Japan isn't the only thing to lose sleep over. Japan and the North Africa/Middle East region are each about five thousand miles away from us here in the US... Read more |
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Richard Heinberg on BBC The World Today
Interview with Richard Heinberg • March 21, 2011
Heinberg talks about the coming energy crunch and the urgent need for planning to live with less energy. Listen |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Protests, Tsunamis & Deficits
Article by Tom Whipple • March 17, 2011
Events seem to be moving faster and faster these days. Perhaps it is due to the new ways of communicating that are now available. Or maybe it is the speed of travel... Read more |
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Learning from Japan about Resilience
Post by Warren Karlenzig • March 16, 2011
Hourly Japan 's tragedy grows almost beyond comprehension. There is universal empathy over the pain and suffering being experienced, fear about impacts on Japan's and the world's economy, and anxiety about releases of radiation... Read more |
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Richard Heinberg interviewed in Totnes: "I think 2011 is going to be an interesting year...in the Chinese sense..."
Post by Rob Hopkins • March 14, 2011
On Richard Heinberg's recent visit to Totnes, which included a talk on The End of Growth, myself, Ben Brangwyn of Transition Network and Frances Northrop of Transition Town Totnes did an interview with Richard... Read more |
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6 Energy Experts Address the Economic Impact of Middle East Unrest
Post by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley, David Hughes, Tom Whipple, Colin Campbell • March 10, 2011
With instability in the Middle East driving oil prices higher, huge cracks are widening in the global economy... Read more |
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Beyond Food Miles
Post by Michael Bomford • March 9, 2011
The following article is concerned strictly with the energy equation of the food sytem and is intended to stimulate questions about how best to grow, transport, store and prepare (ideally local) foods.. Read more |
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Confronting Change
Video presentation by Rob Hopkins • March 7, 2011
Rob Hopkins presenting at Transition Finsbury Park's 'Confronting Change' event at the South Bank Centre in December 2010... Watch |
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Tim DeChristopher: Taking a Leap and Pointing the Way
Video featuring Bill McKibben • March 4, 2011
Let's consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bankers have been charged, despite the unmitigated greed that nearly brought the world economy down... Read more |
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energy bulletin highlights
Below is a selection of recent articles and media appearing on Energy Bulletin. Energy Bulletin is now on facebook. Come joins us there!
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Predictions revisited: Fukushima
by Jon Barrett, Converging Crises
Hokusai's famous 1820 painting of fishing boats battling through The Great Wave portrays a distinctly Japanese awareness of the vulnerability of human life amidst the tremendous forces of nature...Read more |
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Force Multipliers
by Christine Patton, Peak oil hausfrau
Most approaches to "solving" our climate and resource crises focus on technology: replacing fossil fuels with a different technology (solar, wind, ethanol, nuclear), or increasing the efficiency of our current technology...Read more |
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tipping point
by Charlotte Du Cann, Transition Norwich blog
There is a moment when you realise that it's not really about you anymore. You could call it the Hal moment, when the vagabond prince in the play becomes a king and forgoes his pleasure-seeking companions... Read more |
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How much energy can our forests provide?
by Carl Etnier, Equal Time Radio
As oil prices rise, heating our homes with wood becomes more attractive. How much can we substitute wood for other energy sources, particularly oil and propane heating?... Listen |
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Lester Brown: The planet's scarcest resource is time
by The Nation
In this eleventh video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, analyst, author and founder of the Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown discusses how unprepared the world really is... Watch |
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Naomi Klein in Totnes: The Movie!
by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Well, it has been Naomi Klein week here at Transition Culture! Here is the film, beautifully produced by those good folks at nuproject, of Naomi's talk in Totnes... Watch |
transition US update
A monthly update from the US regional hub of the international Transition movement.
 Transition US is excited to be supporting the growing number of communities taking on the 350 Home & Garden Challenge. On May 14th and 15th, folks from all over the US (and beyond) will be taking action in one or more areas: growing food, conserving water, saving energy and/or building community. The actions people are taking range from planting a fruit tree or switching to compact florescent light bulbs, to organizing 20 volunteers to create a school garden or installing an array of solar panels at city hall. The important thing is that we all stand up and be counted. Visit www.transitionus.org to learn more, sign up as a community organizer, and/or register your action. We are also looking to expand our growing list of media sponsors which includes 350.org and of course Post Carbon Institute. |
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events
View our events calendar
 16th annual Tulane Law School Summit on Environmental Law & Policy
April 1-3, 2011, New Orleans, LA
Post Carbon Fellow John Kaufmann will be one of the speakers at this event. The Energy Equation will focus on many of the hot topics in United States energy policy, including declining reserves in our most popular energy resources...
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 Land Institute Presentation Series
April 11-14, 2011, Brunswick ME, Williamstown, MA & Schenectady, NY
Post Carbon Fellow Wes Jackson presents on the work of the Land Institute. These lectures are free and open to the public.
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 XVIIITH International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology
April 20-23, 2011, MonteLago Village Resort, NV
Post Carbon Fellow Stephanie Mills will be one of the keynotes speakers at the conference. The conference will examine the status of, and current challenges facing, human ecology around the world.
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 Living Future 2011
April 27-29, 2011, Vancouver, BC
Post Carbon Fellow Majoria Carter takes the stage on April 27th as keynote speaker to share her experiences on how proven yet affordable sustainability strategies hold the power to transform a community's self-image while rejuvenating the environment around us. This session will be open to the public.
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 9th ASPO International Conference
April 27-29, 2011, Brussels, Belgium
Post Carbon Fellow Wes Jackson will be one of the speakers at the 9th ASPO International Conference. Wes's presentation topic will be ' Towards Sustainable Agriculture without fossil fuels'.
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 Tagore Festival 2011
May 1-7, 2011, Dartmouth, UK
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins will be speaking on the 'ingredients of Transition' and giving an update on the work of the movement.
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 Majora Carter is Knox College commencement address
June 4, 2011, Galesburg, IL
Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter will deliver the will deliver the Commencement address at Knox College having been nominated by the graduating class.
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Image credit: Tugboat in street — US Pacific Fleet/Flickr
Image credit: Ducks — SOLID Motivational Posters/Derick Bailey
Image credit: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Middleton, Pennsylvania — Chris Hamilton.
Image credit: Japan earthquake cyclist — Reuters
Image credit: Water Droplet — chaim zvi/Flickr
Image credit: Shinto shrine — timtak/Flickr
Image credit: Share a car — London Permaculture
Image credit: Oakland cookery class by People's Grocery |
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