The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report called “World Energy Investment Outlook” that should send policy makers screaming and running for the exits—if they are willing to read between the lines and view the report...
Originally posted at Solutions Journal. Solutions invited two pioneers in local and regional economic development to discuss new trends in sustainable communities. MH: Michael Shuman GA: Gar Alperovitz MS: Economic development currently counsels communities across the planet to attract...
Photo credit: Stuck in Customs / Flickr. Creative Commons 2.0 license. “We live in an interconnected world”, the author argues. In Brief The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in...
Click the thumbnails to view slideshow. © J Henry Fair, flights provided by LightHawk On a sweltering day in May last year I sat dumbfounded at a US Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee meeting. Pat Outtrim, VP of Cheniere...
After coursing through its delta for nearly eight weeks, the fresh waters of the Colorado River have touched the high tides of the salty sea. It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River, which flows...
Last week the LA Times ran a story saying that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is about to reduce “its” estimate of the amount of shale oil that can be recovered from the Monterey Shale under California by...
CBC Radio An interview with Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes on how the oil industry managed to overestimate the amount of extractable oil in a California shale formation by a truly astonishing amount: about fourteen billion barrels. Segment begins...
Credit: Between The Lines | Download Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Richard Heinberg, senior fellow-in-residence at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 11 books on energy and the environment. Here he discusses the recent reports on melting ice in...
In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy commissioned INTEK Inc., a Virginia-based consulting firm, to estimate how much oil might be recoverable from California’s vast Monterey Shale formation. Production of tight oil was...
Lead artist Steve Lambert introduces the project. Much more at energy-reality.org/art/. About the Public Energy Art Kit from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.