The Importance of Imagination
November 19, 2019
We need to create an environment where our imagination enshrines us. It needs to run through everything we do.
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
November 14, 2019
I would prefer to be labeled a realist, someone who sees things as they are, who has a healthy respect for good data and solid analysis (or at least credible theory).
David Hughes’ Shale Reality Check 2019
November 12, 2019
1.9 million. 13 trillion. 10 billion. These are the numbers that jumped off the page when I read PCI Fellow David Hughes’s latest “shale reality check” report on the U.S. government’s forecasts of domestic oil and gas production. To...
Why I Spent the Last Two Years Writing a Book about Imagination
October 18, 2019
It was a quote by my late friend and mentor David Fleming that tipped me over into thinking that writing a book about imagination was something I needed to do. In ‘Lean Logic’, he wrote “if the mature market...
Learning How to Talk
October 8, 2019
The more I do this work, the less certain I am about anything. But there are a few things of which I’m convinced: The climate crisis, and the broader E4 crises of which it’s a (deadly) symptom, is the...
Corvallis Climate Justice Rally
September 30, 2019
Asher Miller joined other local climate leaders in speaking at the Climate Justice Rally in Corvallis during the Global Climate Strike Week. My name’s Asher Miller. I’m the Executive Director of a nonprofit called Post Carbon Institute, which happens...
Choosing Extinction
September 24, 2019
The climate strikes over the coming weeks will focus a great deal of attention on government and the urgent need for policy action. Rightly so. But it’s also a good time to reflect on the bigger context, as this...
A sea change moment?
September 19, 2019
Tomorrow begins Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential...
This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
September 17, 2019
it can’t be just young people. It needs to be all of us
Tax the Rich Before the Rest
September 16, 2019
Presidential candidates should take a pledge: The middle class should not pay one dollar more in new taxes until the super-rich pay their fair share.