What's happening? We'll tell you what's happening:
* We're well into production of our "Shared Future" presentation ( see Asher's blog). Thanks to your feedback, we're confident that we'll produce a powerful and customizable slide deck that you will be able to deliver in your community to educate and inspire. Already, nearly 100 of you have signed up as presenters!
* Also in the hopper is the new book by PCI's Local Economics Fellow Michael Shuman. You've helped us with the title: Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity. Thank you! This will be the first of three Resilience Guides, slated for staggered release starting in February 2012.
* Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg returned home only yesterday from the road, where he delivered well-attended "End of Growth" talks in Kansas City, Salina, Salt Lake City and Jackson, Wyoming. This great video interview, shot in Richard's back yard, gives a wonderful sneak peek into Richard's domestic life... take a look!
* A whole lot more... see below.
Now you know a little bit about what we're doing. Your turn. Tell us what you're up to! >> media@postcarbon.org
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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Still Wild and Free, New Mexico's Gila River is Again under Threat
Article by Sandra Postel • September 28, 2011
In today's world where most rivers are turned on and off like plumbing works, the Gila in southwestern New Mexico is a rare gem: one of the few remaining undammed rivers... Read more |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The German Army Report
Post by Tom Whipple • September 22, 2011
In the last five or six years at least 20 major studies have been published by governmental and non-governmental organizations that either deal with or touch upon the possibility of severe... Read more |
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CULTURE AND BEHAVIOR: Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America
Post by Peter Whybrow • September 22, 2011
From The Post Carbon Reader: But living now in relative abundance, when the whole world is a shopping mall and our appetites are no longer constrained by limited resources, our craving for reward--be that for money... Read more |
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Rob Hopkins: Making The Red Pill Taste Good
Interview by Chris Martenson • September 22, 2011
Rob Hopkins is a true pioneer of the movement to intelligently prepare and adapt society for entering a post-Peak Oil future. His brainchild, Transition Towns, has been one of the most successful initiatives to date... Listen |
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YOUR New Presentation
Post by Asher Miller • September 20, 2011
In this video, PCI's Executive Director, Asher Miller, narrates a sample of what will be the 'Shared Future' presentation. What you see is a short introduction, with 'placeholder vocals'... Read more |
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Montana's Energy Future: The Role of Biochar
Interview with Gloria Flora • September 20, 2011
Gloria recently co-authored a report on how Montana can become energy self-reliant through renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation and is championing something known as 'biochar' as a possible carbon-negative energy source.... Listen |
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Resilient Philanthropy: Giving Beyond Growth
Post by Ken White • September 15, 2011
One way or another, most philanthropy and social change efforts assume a growing economy. But what if that assumption no longer holds? That's why Post Carbon Institute is exploring the transition to "Resilient Philanthropy"... Read more |
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Urban Parklets: The New Front Stoop
Post by Warren Karlenzig • September 15, 2011
San Francisco's parklets are a vibrant testimony to the city's Pavement to Parks Program, managed by a non-profit, the Great Streets Program... Read more |
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Paving a smooth path of bike-friendliness with education
Video with Mia Birk • September 8, 2011
Post Carbon Adviser Mia Birk has pedaled the uphill battle of bike-friendliness before. That's why she's helping to make the journey a smooth path for Charleston.... Watch |
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Sandra Postel: Water World, Uncut
Interview with Sandra Postel • September 7, 2011
Whether it's 500-year floods or 100-year droughts, water has been one of the top news stories in 2011. Good ol' H20 will likely grow in prominence over the coming decades... Read more |
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the end of growth
Richard Heinberg is out on the road spreading the message about his latest book The End of Growth, published by New Society Publishers. Catch some of Richard's recent interviews and latest releases from the book.
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KunstlerCast #171: The End of Growth - Part 2
In the conclusion of this one-hour conversation, Richard Heinberg, joins James Howard Kunstler by phone to talk about peak oil, financial dysfunction, techno-grandiosity, the fate of industrial agriculture and more... Listen |
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Radioactive: The End of Growth
Richard Heinberg argues that our current economic model is a global pyramid scheme. We now rely on continued growth to pay existing debt. If we stop growing however, the economy defaults. ... Listen |
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END OF GROWTH CHAPTER 6, PART 3: Gross National Happiness
After World War II, the industrial nations of the world set out to rebuild their economies and needed a yardstick by which to measure their progress. The index soon settled upon was the Gross National Product, or GNP... Read more |
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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Wendell Berry's weapons of mass destruction
by Erik Curren, Transition Voice
I'm pretty sure that in his now-famous press briefing of Feb. 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wasn't trying to write poetry in the vein of William Carlos Williams. Yet, how beautifully he captured the conundrum at the center of all human attempts to make sense of reality...Read more |
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From crushing distance to opening space - a meditation on speed and local consciousness
by Clifford Dean Scholz, Green Hand Initiative
I drove south on Interstate 75 after dinner last night to help a friend with yard work some 29 miles from my home. We're in the last days of August here in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, and that only gave us a couple hours of useful daylight...Read more |
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Agriculture with a future comes to dinner
by Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book
A Thought Experiment: Due to a combination of crises - maybe a volcano explosion, the penetration of Ug99 into the main of the world wheat crop, drought in many of the world's grain growing regions, zombie invasion etc... Read more |
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Canada's Oil Sands: Energy Security, or Energy Disaster?
Commonwealth Club of California
The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America's Gulf Coast refineries. In this Climate One debate, a panel of experts argues for and against the controversial pipeline... Listen |
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Peak Moment #202: Collapse of the titans
by Yuba Gals Independent Media Peak Moment
Learn from the Soviets — personal relationships are the best currency, says Russian-born Dmitry Orlov, the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. The American empire is following the USSR into collapse... Watch |
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Emperor of What?
by KMO, C-realm podcast
KMO welcomes Charles Eisenstein back to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss his new book, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Charles talks about interest and the economic imperatives that it fosters... Listen |
transition US update
A monthly update from the US regional hub of the international Transition movement.
 Thanks to everyone who tuned in to our live call with Rob Hopkins on September 12th, hosted by Vicki Robin, on "Exploring the Ingredients of Transition." Rob answered questions about how the movement is evolving, right down to the nitty-gritty of intiatives developing social enterprises to support the local economy. Listen to the recording online.
On October 25th, we'll be hosting a special live call with Chris Martenson, author of The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment. Check out the details and register now to join the conversation.
Despite the lack of leadership from government towards climate change, and recently the Tar Sands, Transition Initiatives across the country mobilized their communities to get out their rusty bicycles, and join the international effort around Moving Planet - read the September Roundup of What's Happening in the World of Transition for more stories. Finally, we're waiting with baited breath to see who will be our 100th official Transition Initiative! Do you know a group interested in taking the next step? Click here to learn more and find an initiative near you. |
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events
View our events calendar
 Vermont Renewable Energy Conference
October 11-12, 2011, Burlington, VT
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will present on October 12th at the 2011 Renewable Energy Vermont conference and EXPO...
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 Slow Money 2011 National Gathering
October 12-14, 2011, San Francisco, CA
Post Carbon Fellows Wes Jackson and David Orr will be among the speakers at this year's Slow Money gathering. Join the emerging network of investors, donors, entrepreneurs, farmers, and activists who are giving birth to the nurture capital industry....
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 National Preservation Conference
October 19-22, 2011, Buffalo, NY
Post Carbon Adviser James Howard Kunstler will welcome us to Buffalo with an analysis of the state of urban and suburban design, planning, and living...
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 San Antonio Electric Vehicle 2011
October 26-27, 2011, San Antonio, TX
Post Carbon Fellow and author of Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil (2010) Anthony Perl, will be speaking at the San Antonia Electric Vehicle Conference...
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 E.N. Thompson Forum: Sandra Postel
November 1, 2011, Lincoln, NE
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel speaks on "Dividing the Waters: Global Security in a Water-Stressed World" as part of this season's E.N. Thompson Forum, themed "Water and Global Security". This event is free and open to the public...
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 Carter at Congress of Cities
November 10, 2011, Phoenix, AR
Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter will be one of the speakers for the Opening Session of the 2011 Congress of Cities. She will focus on how cities can work on sustaining the environment while sustaining their economies...
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Image credit: Richard Heinberg close-up — faircompanies.com
Image credit: Wendell Berry — Guy Mendes
Image credit: Transition Wayland, MA members making posters for Moving Planet — flickr/transition us |
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