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The Peak Oil Crisis: Perspective

Tom Whipple May 09, 2012   

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 major forces that … >>

Top 11 FAQs

Richard Heinberg May 02, 2012   

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 … >>

Local Dollars, Local Sense: The Hidden Power of Cooperatives

Michael Shuman Apr 27, 2012   

A group of scholars at the University of Wisconsin recently counted nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States operating at 73,000 locations. The vast majority are consumer cooperatives, … >>

Interview with Rob Hopkins on In Transition 2.0

Rob Hopkins Apr 24, 2012   

Jonny Gordon-Farleigh from STIR interviews Rob Hopkins To mark the release of In Transition 2.0 — an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, … >>

$5 Gas = Long, Hot, Crazy Summer

Richard Heinberg Mar 01, 2012   

Here in northern California gasoline is now retailing for $4.20 a gallon. Prices haven’t been this high since mid-2008. Forecasts for $5 per gallon gas in the US this summer are now … >>

The Fight of the Century

Richard Heinberg Feb 16, 2012   

As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to … >>

5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense

Michael Shuman Feb 15, 2012   

Americans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, pension, life insurance, and mutual funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touches local small businesses, the source of half the economy’s jobs and output. ... >>

OutThere Monthly - Interview with Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg Feb 08, 2012   

By Juliet Sinisterra, OutThere Monthly In 2003 The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg was published. The book is a somber, detailed analysis … >>

The great carbon bubble: Why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard

Bill McKibben Feb 07, 2012   

  If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday … >>

The peak oil crisis: On closing our refineries

Tom Whipple Jan 26, 2012   

Here is one more thing for those of us who live in the northeastern U.S. to start worrying about - the refineries that make our gasoline, diesel, heating oil, etc. are dropping like flies. In … >>