In this video Chris Martenson, economic analyst, explains why he thinks that the coming 20 years are going to look completely unlike the last 20 years. In his presentation he focuses on the so-called three "Es": Economy, Energy and...
Part 1 of 3 of an update to Richard Heinberg’s 2011 book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Read Part 2 Read Part 3 In The End of Growth, published in September 2011, I made...
from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees discusses cultural denial and how we could start adapting to our ecological challenges through a new cultural narrative. From the recent...
Smoke is in the air here in the middle Rio Grande Valley, as winds push charred particulates northeast from the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The Whitewater-Baldy blaze has now burned more than 350 square miles of the Gila...
Bill Ryerson wrote this commentary in response to Fighting Climate Change with Family Planning, an article published at Sierra Club Magazine dealing with the deleterious effects of rapid population growth and proposing five ways to achieve a global population...
Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes — But So Is the Planet It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial. First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki’s face plastered across it: “I Still...
Michael Shuman talks about his book Local Dollars, Local Sense. Recorded at the Boulder Bookstore on February 22, 2012.
An interview with PCI Board Member and energy consultant Debbie Cook, and energy company executive Buck Johns.
Fish-shaped Long Island, New York, is underlain by aquifers that are its sole source of drinking water. Photo courtesy of NASA/Wikimedia Commons. Last week, the conservation organization American Rivers released its annual list of the nation’s most-endangered rivers. I...
PCI Fellow Josh Farley explains the concepts and implcations of money as debt, GDP as a measure of the economy, and economic degrowth. Recorded at the 2012 Montreal Degrowth conference for The Extraenvironmentalist.