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Our Fellows, Advisors, Board and staff weigh in on the top issues of the day on the Post Carbon Institute blog.
According to one version of the invention of the telegraph, Samuel Morse was let down by some suppliers who used shoddy wire in the underground pipe he had laid between Baltimore and Washington … >>
America is sliding head-first into energy Armageddon, with world oil production peaking, North American natural gas production set to plummet, and coal likely to follow in a couple of decades. So … >>
This morning as I was making my usual rounds of my favorite online news and commentary sites, I saw this from Ron Patterson over on The Oil Drum: [OPEC] countries with 939,016 billion barrels … >>
The top story on msnbc.com a few mornings ago discussed how rising gas prices are prompting --and in some cases forcing-- people living in far-flung suburbs to move closer to their jobs. When … >>
Last night I gave a Peak Oil talk to a bicycling group—Wheeled Migration—that is en route from Chico California to San Luis Obispo. These young folks didn’t need any convincing. … >>
The rate at which the unthinkable is happening is also becoming unthinkable. Glaciers in the Tian Mountains in western China are melting so fast that it is easy to make the connection to global … >>
In nearby Santa Rosa, CA, Community Action Partnership (a fantastic organization I've had the fortune to collaborate with in the past) has just received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Labor … >>
Finally we know that speculation has played very little role in the recent oil price run-up—this according to an authoritative study by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Of course, … >>
Al Gore's widely publicised plan to move America to 100% renewable power in ten years is one of the boldest ploys by a politician - or quasi politician - in years. Even normally hostile … >>
California gets a lot of attention for pushing renewable energy and energy conservation. So I was somewhat taken aback when I came across this statistic in a recent post on Wired: California … >>
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