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Listen to humorous analysis of crazy-making topics on Crazy Town, and pithy conversations with author Vicki Robin on What Could Possibly Go Right?.

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Community Resilience

Providing information to help people and their communities weather the environmental, economic, and energy...

The Energy Transition

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable...

Limits to Growth

Highlighting the impossibility of infinite economic growth on our finite planet, and offering ideas...

The fifteen-report "Shale Bubble" report series by J. David Hughes critically assessed the viability of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) tight oil and shale gas forecasts in its Annual Energy Outlook reports, from 2015 to 2021.

Shale Reality Check 2021

Fracking has boosted U.S. oil and gas production—but how long can it deliver? This assessment of U.S. government forecasts for tight oil and shale gas production finds them extremely optimistic and unlikely to be realized.

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

Power, Richard Heinberg's most ambitious book to date, explores how Homo sapiens—one species among millions—became powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth’s climate.

The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification

The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world. It is a much-needed reality check that explains why certain trends we take for granted are historical anomalies.

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