Richard Heinberg on the Majority Report
Credit: Majority Report | Download An interview with Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Cheap fuel,the engine that propelled the last 70 years of economic growth is no more. Interview begins at...
The Legal Landscape of Social Enterprise and the Sharing Economy
Janelle Orsi and Jenny Kassan of the Sustainable Economies Law Center present.
Public Health and Medicine in an Age of Energy Scarcity
Cindy Parker and I, the Post Carbon Institute’s two Health Fellows, have partnered as co-editors with Jeremy Hess at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control, and Howard Frumkin, Dean of the University of Washington School of Public...
The End of Cheap Coal
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
World energy policy is gripped by a fallacy — the idea that coal is destined to stay cheap for decades to come. This assumption supports investment in ‘clean-coal’ technology and trumps serious efforts to increase energy conservation and develop...
Neuroscience, Happiness, and Balancing Self v. Social Interest
Peter Whybrow – PopTech 2008 from PopTech on Vimeo. Leading neuropsychiatrist Peter Whybrow is the author of American Mania: When More Is Not Enough, a neurobiological look at the instinctual and social behaviors that balance a market economy. He...
Economy Sandwich
Explore the new economy with the Sustainable Economies Law Center! How are people putting the lively back in livelihood? Sharing, cooperation, DIY, and the local economy are all wonderful, but they operate in some interesting legal grey areas. Learn...
THE ULTIMATE ROLLER COASTER RIDE: A Brief History of Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels have powered human growth and ingenuity for centuries. Now that we’re reaching the end of cheap and abundant oil and coal supplies, we’re in for an exciting ride. While there’s a real risk that we’ll fall off...
Citylicious: A Movie About Growing Food in Cities
Learn more about or donate to the Sustainable Economies Law Center’s Urban Agriculture Program: www.SustainableEconomiesLawCenter.org
The Softer Side of Sustainability
One reason I like to host seminars at the Center for Ecoliteracy is that you never know who is going to show up. Last August, one of the 80 people who participated in our Short Course on Systems Thinking...