Outside In with Michael Shuman and Stephanie Mills
Michael Shuman Stephanie Mills
Outside In with Michael Shuman and Stephanie Mills from Robert Russell on Vimeo. Stephanie Mills returns with another of her colleagues from the Post Carbon Institute, Michael Shuman. Shuman is author of a number of books on developing local...
Reality Strikes Back: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth
By Chris Stratton, The Center for a New American Dream If you’re worried about the recession and looking for reassurance that the world’s economies will soon be back on track and everything will return to normal, you should probably...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Gasoline in 2012
In recent days there has been much discussion in the press about what might happen to gasoline prices in the coming year. Cognizant of the fact that retail gasoline is currently running nearly 30 cents per gallon higher than...
Film review: Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided
What do you do when you are the heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune and you have spent years surrounding yourself with new agey thinking and conspiracy theories? You make a film like ‘Thrive‘, the latest conspiracy theory...
Geopolitical Implications of “Peak Everything”
From Solutions Journal, January 2012. Also published in the 20th Anniversary edition of Richard Heinberg’s Musletter. From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the...
At the Crossroads of Sustainability: A Conversation with Bill Ryerson
By Michael Charles Tobias, Forbes : Imagine a country like French Guiana or Vanuatu – with human populations of 225,000 to 235,000 – emerging, every day! That is the conundrum facing humanity and the natural world. The human population explosion,...
Armed with naïvete
My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we...
The peak oil crisis: closing out the year
The returns are in and we now know that world price of a barrel of oil averaged $111 in 2011. This was up 14 percent from last year and well above the previous high of $100 set in 2008....
Book Review: The Post Carbon Reader (Daniel Lerch interview)
by Kyle Curtis A primer about everything that’s wrong in the world- and what you can do to fix it. Let’s make this clear from the beginning: The Post Carbon Reader is not an easy read. Indeed, if...
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair
NOTE: this recording is no longer available – View transcript here. Richard Heinberg joins James Howard Kunstler, Nicole Foss, Dmitri Orlov and Noam Chomsky in a panel discussion. The discussion begins after the news bulletin.