While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian’s...
There is surely a correspondence between an exhausted culture and a populace devolved so far into mental dullness that it can’t recognize its predicament. We don’t seem to get how much the industrial production spree of the past 200...
Introducing our most ambitious publishing effort to date: ENERGY: Overdevelopment & the Delusion of Endless Growth. A partnership between the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Post Carbon Institute, this 336-page coffee table book is an unprecedented, visually-rich exploration of...
There is a growing disconnect between forecasts of prodigious amounts of oil coming out of the Middle East in coming decades and what is likely to happen in the region. The Middle East today is a patchwork of geographical...
The Cienega de Santa Clara is an area of Delta wetlands sustained by agricultural drainage crossing into Mexico from the United States. The beautiful Cienega is a reminder of what the larger Delta used to be. Photo credit: Pronatura...
A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures, starts with...
Credit: BBC Radio 4: Four Thought | Download The influential founder of the Transition Towns movement Rob Hopkins argues for a new approach to energy, society and our surroundings – with the help of a bottle of beer and a ten pound...
In his November 14 press conference president Obama made a few brief comments about global warming: “There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices...
Good news, folks. According to our friends at the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States will once again be the world’s top oil producing nation by 2020. In your face Russia and Saudi Arabia! Not only that, but...
It’s hard to know how much of a difference Hurricane Sandy made in the outcome of last week’s election, but many of us were pleased to hear President Obama finally reference climate change in his acceptance speech: "We want...