As the years go by, those studying peak oil are beginning to develop a better understanding of what has been happening since the concept of limits to oil production came to widespread attention. First of all, it is important...
Richard Heinberg speaks on his newest book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, covering the short-term nature of the recent North American oil boom and the financial bubble that supports it. Heinberg covers the...
Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, OVEC and AlterNet have partnered to show us what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters (including the Freedom Industries chemical spill, the Duke Energy ash spill and Tuesday’s slurry...
Credit: Progressive Commentary Hour | Download Progressive Radio’s Gary Null talks peak oil, climate change, economy, culture, policy and much more with regular Resilience.org author Kurt Cobb and PCI Board Member Nate Hagens.
Nearly half of the wells hydraulically fractured (indicated by black dots) in the United States are located in areas of high or extremely high water stress (shown in red and dark red). Graphic courtesy of Ceres Even as concerns...
Tina Clarke is a Transition Trainer and more recently a REconomy trainer, helping to develop new REconomy trainings for Transition groups. On Tuesday February 11th between 19.00 and 20.30 GMT (14.00 -15.30 EST), she will be presenting, along with...
It’s a cruel irony for the 300,000 West Virginians forced to turn off their taps for five to ten days earlier this month after a chemical spill contaminated their drinking water supply that their inconvenience and, for some, illness and suffering,...
Think back to early 2004. Oil cost around $40 per barrel1—on the high side compared to the previous few decades but not much out of the ordinary. Gasoline still cost under $2.00 a gallon for most of the country....
This summer, Paul Solman and a film crew from PBS Newshour visited the Martenson homestead to capture the message behind the Peak Prosperity movement.
Engrossed: A young girl “reads” ice-book text comprised of Fremont cottonwood seed (Populus fremontii) beside the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Basia Irland is a sculptor, poet, and installation artist who has focused her creativity on rivers for thirty...