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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

Drilling into The U.S. Government’s Rosy Projections for Shale Gas & Tight Oil Production...

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Building resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.

There’s No App for That

Can technology solve the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and overpopulation?

2016 Tight Oil Reality Check

Putting to the test government forecasts for domestic tight oil production.

If you take a charitable tax deduction, you should actually give to charity

When donors contribute to a DAF, they take a tax deduction — often a big one. But those funds can then sit in the DAF for years, even generations, before they’re granted out to charities working to meet...

Rees on ‘Unsustainable overshoot’ in the Richmond News

Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees keynote address on ‘Unsustainable overshoot’ was picked up in this article in the Richmond News. From the article: “What we take to be the norm is the single most abnormal…period in human history,” said Rees, who came up with the concept of the “ecological footprint” to measure sustainability (based on […]