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Community Resilience

Providing information to help people and their communities weather the environmental, economic, and energy storms of the 21st century.

The Energy Transition

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable energy transition, and the role of energy in modern life.

Limits to Growth

Highlighting the impossibility of infinite economic growth on our finite planet, and offering ideas for "better" instead of bigger.

Shale Reality Check 2019

The US government's forecasts of tight oil and shale gas production through 2050 are...

Resumen Ejecutivo: ¿Cuánto durará la revolución de las lutitas?

Este informe pretende cuantificar el impacto de los avances tecnológicos recientes en la producción...

How Long Will the Shale Revolution Last?: Technology versus Geology and the Lifecycle of Shale Plays

This report provides a realistic assessment of future production in the the top ten...

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

Available for order in hard-copy format! The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom...

The temperature of anxiety is rising. Scratch the surface of more and more “normal” people and they spill out their concerns and how they are trying to cope. I wish I had some balm to offer for our...

Bradford local food report quoted in article on drought

Post Carbon Board member Jason Bradford’s report, The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification, was quoted in this article at Insurge Intelligience on the threat of devastating drought due to past emissions. From the article: The transition to sustainable agroecological methods means much less emphasis on machines and fossil fuels, and […]