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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...

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

How Long Will the Shale Revolution Last? provides a realistic assessment of future production in the top U.S. tight oil and shale gas plays. It is most extensive of our highly regarded analyses of U.S. shale production.

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.

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

The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.

Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

The transition to clean energy will not be a simple matter of replacing fossil fuels with renewables. Our Renewable Future is a clear-eyed and urgent guide to this transformation.

Leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.