As the human population has climbed past seven billion, and the consumption per person of everything from burgers to blue jeans has risen inexorably, the finiteness of Earth’s freshwater is becoming ever more apparent. It takes water to make everything,...
“ ” Although I’ve done a hundred or so public talks around the world in the last few years around my book The Great Disruption, speaking at the opening session of the annual TED event is an experience and...
‘Breathing new life into the concept of resilience’: the notes from my ‘Four Thought’ talk Here are the notes of the talk I gave that went out just now on Radio 4′s ‘Four Thought’ programme. You can download the...
As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to play out? 1. Prologue As...
Photo by Derek and Kristi. Americans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, pension, life insurance, and mutual funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touches local small businesses, the source of half the economy’s...
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Bill McKibben www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben talks about the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline and calls on...
A group of farmers in northwest Texas began 2012 under circumstances their forbearers could scarcely imagine: they faced a limit on the amount of groundwater they could pump from their own wells on their own property. The new rule...
By Juliet Sinisterra, OutThere Monthly In 2003 The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg was published. The book is a somber, detailed analysis of the central role that fossil fuels have played...
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007...
Credit: Kunstlercast | Download James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Arthur E. Berman, who is a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; associate editor of the AAPG Bulletin; director of The Association...