Richard Heinberg explains peak oil
Credit: Midday: ABC Classic FM | Download Margaret Throsby interviews Richard about his life and work, and invites him to select the music. Violin image via shutterstock
Richard Heinberg: The End of Growth (interview)
Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth speaks with Vivien Langford from Beyond Zero Radio at his hotel in Sydney, Australia. Richard is currently visiting Australia on a speaking tour sponsored by Sustainable Population Australia and is also...
The Value of Innovative Think Tanks
A recent article highlights the vital role forward-looking think tanks are playing in these times of economic turmoil. Though written for a European audience, it’s directly relevant to the situation anywhere on the globe. The author cites Post Carbon...
Bill Ryerson Population Travel Notes: 1 Abuja, Nigeria
Post Carbon Fellow and President of the Population Media Centre is regularly on the road as part of his work. Over the next months Bill will be providing us with regular travel notes and insight into his experiences. Travel...
A River in New Zealand Gets a Legal Voice
It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the country – and possibly the world – yet has: a...
A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme...
POWER FROM THE PEOPLE
Peak oil and climate change dictate that we get society off fossil fuels, fast. But wind, solar, biofuels, hydropower each have major drawbacks compared to the versatility, ubiquity, and energy content of fossil fuels. It’s hard to see how...
My TEDx Talk: Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Cities
TEDx Mission recently invited me to speak at their San Francisco event on how cities are using collective intelligence approaches to address climate change and climate change adaptation. Crowdsourcing and savvy planning are producing healthier quality of life and more...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Summer’s End
As Labor Day nears, a quiet summer seems poised to turn into an autumn to remember. Our concern here, as it has been for many years now, is the price and availability of oil products vital to our civilization....
The Main Street To Recaptured Capital
By Mike Rotkin, Solutions Journal As a former mayor of Santa Cruz, California, I have had a sustained interest in alternative investment strategies for local communities. Most of the proposals I’ve studied and worked on tend to be either...