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Richard Heinberg on Political Analysis

Credit: Progressive Radio | Download Tonight on Political Analysis, author, eco-activist and senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) Richard Heinberg joins Sandy LeonVest to talk about, among other things, PCI’s new book, “Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.”...

The Perils of Ignoring the Water-Energy Nexus

As we pump gasoline into our automobiles, we watch the register ring up dollars, but we don’t see the water cost: some 13 gallons for every gallon of fuel. It’s one of the most inconvenient truths of modern times that...

Energy literacy through an astonishing coffee table book

It is hard to imagine a more unlikely vehicle for advancing energy literacy than a finely crafted large format picture book. Energy, after all, is invisible. We see its effects, but never the thing itself. And yet, Energy: Overdevelopment...

Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New Mexico

Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Photo by Sandra Postel As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders....

Unchecked Growth Is a Path to Poverty

Bill Ryerson

Endless growth is not possible because of constraints of renewable resources like fresh water, clean air and biodiversity. Also, much of our industrial system depends on nonrenewable resources like oil and various metals and minerals, which are being depleted...

Film review: ‘Chasing Ice’

I hadn’t heard of James Balog, whose work is the subject of ‘Chasing Ice’, until I saw him give a presentation at TED Global in Oxford in 2008. It was in a session after supper, along with Nigeran novelist...