Credit: Seachange Radio | Download We’ve spoken to Richard Heinberg in the past about several problems inherent to our carbon-based economy, from peak oil, to coal to what he has dubbed “the end of growth.” Now the author and senior fellow at the Post...
“Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to another useful word: “foodshed.” The photograph above depicts New Yorkers lining...
Interview by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Q: Andrews–Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energy dialogue by storm. When did you sense that the shale oil plays had the kind of muscle they are...
Credit: KunstlerCast | Download James Howard Kunslter talks with Richard Heinberg about his new book, Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promises of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard is also the author of the great peak oil primer, The Party’s Over, and many...
You can take action to ban fracking on federal lands here. Photo Credit: Ecoflight As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana’s Rocky...
A solar-powered drip irrigation system waters vegetable crops in northern Benin. Photo by Jennifer A. Burney For millions of poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa, access to water makes the difference between hunger and a full belly, between...
You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at...
Highlights from the keynote speech Majora Carter gave at the dinner of CEP’s 2013 National Conference, “Pursuing Results: Effective Foundation Practice.”
By Cat Johnson, Shareable I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Oakland, just up the block from a HUB coworking space and a stone’s throw from a BART station. The wooden tables are full and sharing them is the...
When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States. Thermoelectric power plants alone use more than 200 billion gallons of water a day – about...