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Bill Rees' Last Lecture
William Rees Feb 02, 2012
By Justin Richie, The Tyee Last December, after more than 40 years teaching at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia, Bill Rees gave his … >>
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Catch up on the latest expert post-carbon thinking with these articles by our Fellows and Advisors, published by Post Carbon Institute and other institutions.
Articles on Ecology
YOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey Presentation
Asher Miller Dec 21, 2011
YOU ARE HERE: THE OIL JOURNEY Thanks to your support, we have just completed "You Are Here: The Oil Journey." This is a customizable presentation *you* can use to … >>
What We Are For
Richard Heinberg Nov 17, 2011
Every activist engaged in combating human-caused climate change or specific elements of the current energy economy knows that the work is primarily oppositional. It could hardly be … >>
Toward a Sustainable World Economy
William Rees Aug 12, 2011
This excerpt comes from a presentation by Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees to the Institute for New Economic Thinking Annual Conference, 'Crisis and Renewal: International Political Economy at the … >>
From the Pleistocene to the Motor City: Revolutions in human ecology
Stephanie Mills Apr 27, 2011
This is the text of the keynote address delivered April 22, 2011 at the XVIIIth Conference of the Society for Human Ecology. Introduction It’s Earth Day yet again. Scores of us have … >>
Infrastructural Ecologies: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works
Hillary Brown Nov 01, 2010
Despite the recent infusion of federal stimulus funds into infrastructure projects across the country — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in February 2009, and also the prospect of additional funding announced by the Obama administration on Labor Day this year — the United States still awaits a meaningful new deal for public works. ... >>
9 Global Experts Steer the Gulf Oil Spill Conversation into Fresh Waters
David Fridley David Hughes Erika Allen Gloria Flora Stephanie Mills Tom Whipple Warren Karlenzig William Ryerson Zenobia Barlow May 20, 2010 2 comments
In an effort to broaden the conversation about the horrific Gulf Coast oil spill, nine Fellows of the Post Carbon Institute offer their perspectives on largely underreported aspects and outcomes … >>
Oil-Choked Spring
Stephanie Mills May 06, 2010 1 comments
Sunday morning May 2nd I drove about fifteen miles across my semi rural county to meet up with a regular group of birders. Our convener is Alice, a quiet, steady naturalist who knows hundreds of birds by sight and song. Alice has been working on piping plover recovery. There’s a small breeding population of this endangered shorebird here on the Lake Michigan coast. Alice, with her extraordinary ability to sight birds, helps find the plover nests so that they can be protected within mesh cages that exclude predators. Having banded or observed most of the adult plovers, Alice is acquainted with them as individuals. Some of them, like Rocky, do peculiar things, such as brooding on a clutch of stones. Some of the handful of plovers winter in the Gulf of Mexico. Thus the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout there was preying on her mind. Last Sunday the knowledgeable concern on Alice’s normally serene visage brought the impact of BP’s undersea gusher the thousand-plus miles up from southeastern Louisiana to northern Lake Michigan. ... >>
The Oil Slick You Can't See
Bill McKibben May 05, 2010
[Excerpt] If you think that slick of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is a nasty sight ... well, it is. And so we'll probably do something about it. Within hours of the crude reaching the … >>
On Earth Day, the environmental movement needs repairs
Bill McKibben Apr 23, 2010 2 comments
[Excerpt] Forty years in, we're losing. This weekend, when speakers at Earth Day gatherings across the country hearken back to the first celebration in 1970, they'll recall great victories: above … >>
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