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Bill McKibben on Keystone, Congress, and Big-Oil Money

Author/activist Bill McKibben says environmentalists cannot ease up after their recent victory in the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. In a conversation with Yale Environment 360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, he talks about what he’s learned about the power...

The Peak Oil Crisis: Our Natural Gas Glut

With global warming driving down the demand for natural gas as a home heating fuel and natural gas drillers producing record amounts, an oversupply situation has developed quickly. Stocks of natural gas are rising. As a result natural gas...

Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day

The Mahanadi River in Orissa, India, ebbs to a trickle during the dry season. Photo credit: James P. Blair. Water, I have learned, means different things to different people. To the novelist D. H. Lawrence, water was mysterious.  It...

The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing the Bakken

There is a lot of talk recently that "tight oil" as found in North Dakota’s Bakken and other shales in the Southwest will save America from stagnant global oil production and increasing gasoline prices. The current glut of natural...

On the Edge with Chris Martenson

Max Keiser interviews Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson about his latest article Japan Is Now Another Spinning Plate in the Global Economy Circus.

Fun with Trends

If current population trends continue . . .    The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150 it will equal China’s present size. World population will achieve 14 billion by...

Dear Wall Street: I Quit.

News flash: The culture at Goldman Sachs is “toxic and destructive,” and “purely about how can make the most possible money off of .”   So says a Greg Smith, who ended 12 years at the Wall...