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Post Carbon Institute's definitive reports provide accessible expert analysis of complex and interconnected economic, energy and environmental issues humanity faces in the 21st century.
EXCERPT: Despite its persuasive momentum, the green building movement signifies a mere initial advance toward a low-carbon future. Even as we acknowledge that green facilities must be the … >>
EXCERPT: Economic localization offers the key to solving a growing number of global problems, including peak oil, climate disruption, and financial meltdowns. Yet the perception … >>
EXCERPT: Successful post-carbon transitions will benefit from understanding the dynamics of transport revolutions. We define a transport revolution as being substantial change in a … >>
EXCERPT: Climate change and the threat of energy scarcity now pose serious challenges to our "health system," specifically health care services and public health services. … >>
EXCERPT: We in rich contries have almost lost the ability to supply our own needs through local manufacturing and agriculture--or even to extend the life of products through reuse, repair and … >>
EXCERPT: Community matters when we are looking for responses to peak oil and climate change because of the power that emerges from working together and creating meaningful change through … >>
EXCERPT: The idea of a community food system is much larger than just urban farming. It deals with everything, all the components that are needed to establish, maintain, and perpetually … >>
EXCERPT: When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself. Advocates and activists working to reduce global population growth and size are attacked by the Left for … >>
EXCERPT: Unlike conventional fossil fuels, where nature provided energy over millions of years to convert biomass into energy-dense solids, liquids, and gases--requiring only extraction and … >>
EXCERPT: The underlying premise of the classic book The Limits to Growth is irrefutable: At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real … >>
In Rebuilding the Foodshed Philip Ackerman-Leist refocuses the local-food lens on the broad issue of rebuilding regional food systems that can replace the destructive aspects of industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead.
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what is pci?Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. The Institute has gathered 29 of the world's leading experts on a wide range of interdependent social and scientific issues.
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