Last week we talked about the possibility that researchers have found a second and potentially useful and inexpensive way of converting hydrogen into helium accompanied by a release of significant quantities of energy. Many, of course, believe such a...
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins speaks for the first time in detail about Totnes as a case study, and what, after 6 years, we can draw from the experience of Transition Town Totnes. From TEDX Exeter.
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. It’s an opportunity to interact with the audience, and to see where my presentation may...
A group of scholars at the University of Wisconsin recently counted nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States operating at 73,000 locations. The vast majority are consumer cooperatives, with 343 million memberships (many people belong to multiple co-ops, hence...
On April 5, the David Brower Center welcomed environmental scholar Wes Jackson as he discussed his recent book, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture with Executive Director Amy Tobin. Jackson is the...
Jonny Gordon-Farleigh from STIR interviews Rob Hopkins To mark the release of In Transition 2.0 — an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations — I spoke...
Post Carbon Fellow Joshua Farley speaking at the Transition to a New Economy Conference 2012.
For nearly a century local investing has been essentially illegal, and Wall Street has monopolized all the investment options for the average investor. Thanks to the JOBS Act that President Barack Obama recently signed into law, local investing in...
One of the more transformative technologies ever developed for the world’s poor farmers is a water-lifting device called a treadle pump. It looks and operates much like a Stairmaster exercise machine that you’d find in a gym. But the...
By Bill Bigelow and Bill McKibben Maybe you’ve heard. We are facing a climate crisis that threatens life on our planet. Climate scientists are unequivocal: We are changing the world in deep, measurable, dangerous ways — and the pace...