Credit: KERA – Think | Download How is our accelerating use of the planet’s resources permanently altering the environment? Kris Boyd talks with acclaimed environmental writer Bill McKibben, editor of “The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change” (Penguin,...
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...
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...
Credit: Heart of a Leader | Download In his latest book is The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg makes a compelling argument that the global economy has reached a fateful turning point. He proposes that we...
Across the planet now we see ever more flooding, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before. But...
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...
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...
Credit: Edible Radio Growing Home host Marla Camp, publisher of Edible Austin moderated an on-stage conversation with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson when they came to Austin in December of 2011 to lend their support to Edible Austin’s annual...
Max Keiser interviews Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson about his latest article Japan Is Now Another Spinning Plate in the Global Economy Circus.
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...