Originally posted at PeakProsperity At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources. The global population is more than 7 billion now and...
Most folks in Washington and on Wall Street are desperate to avoid the fiscal cliff. That’s because the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would take effect if we go over the edge would mean an end to...
Cucapá elder Inocencia-Gonzales speaks about the plight of her people near her town of El Mayor in the Colorado River Delta of northwestern Mexico. Photo credit: Blue Legacy/Oscar Durand This piece is part of Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on...
My son was almost two when when I joined Post Carbon Institute in the Spring of 2008. A lot has changed in his life in the last four and a half years, and at PCI. It’s not an...
Energy Hub, WUD Society and Politics Committee, and Madison Peak Oil Group host energy/finance expert Nate Hagens for a presentation that weaves together economics, anthropology, psychology, finance, trade, energy and human behavior into a coherent story about our human social system. In a...
We are in the midst of an amazing energy boom, but by sweeping the idea of peak oil under the rug we are ignoring a significant fact: the relationship between hydrocarbon reserves and flow rates are not the same...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel speaking at the Quivera Coalition 2012 Conference ‘How to Feed Nine Billion People From the Ground Up: Soil, Seeds, Water, Plants, Livestock, Forests, Organics, and People’.
The following is the final part of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 If...
Drip irrigation, shown here in Niger, can help save water, eventually reducing the pressure that drives water grabs. Photo: Bernard Pollack, Worldwatch Institute. This piece is part of Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater, a special National Geographic News...
Credit: Sea Change Radio | Download Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. The New York Times called this follow-up “even better… than the...