Can Climate Change Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline?
June 20, 2018
It sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?
June 19, 2018
Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.
Electric Cars to the Rescue?
June 18, 2018
A lot of hope is riding on the wheels of the world’s three million electric cars. So, how’s the EV revolution going? And even if it’s going well, is it really the best strategy? Those are the questions I...
“Always the Same, Always Different”: a Response to Ted Trainer
June 14, 2018
The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which...
Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience
May 24, 2018
In discussing climate change and all our other eco-social predicaments, how does one distinguish accurate information from statements intended to elicit either false hope or needless capitulation to immediate and utter doom? And, in cases where pessimistic outlooks do...
Puerto Rico: Deciding Its Energy Future
May 10, 2018
The immediate energy nightmare in Puerto Rico is gradually winding down, with electrical power now available to about 90 percent of households (some rural areas are still without power). But it’s clear to nearly everyone that a reversion to...
Where are we going?
May 9, 2018
Ed. note: Nate Hagens gave this talk on Earth Day on April 23, 2018 at The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. What follows is an essay loosely related to the talk. The Human Predicament Around 11,000 years ago, as the...
Politics versus the Future: Canada’s Orwellian Energy Standoff
May 8, 2018
Governments telling us we must increase emissions from oil and gas production in order to meet emissions reduction targets would make George Orwell proud.
Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the imagination with Lise van Susteren
April 25, 2018
A while ago I was reading a report about the psychological impacts of climate change, and came across the term ‘pre-traumatic stress disorder’. It fascinated me. The author of the piece that discussed the idea was Lise van Susteren. Lise...
Is Inequality in America Irreversible?
April 19, 2018
An excerpt from Chuck Collins’ new book, “Is Inequality in America Irreversible?” A Front Row Seat to Inequality I grew up in an affluent family in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I attended an elite boy’s...