There Can Be No Genuine Tax Reform Without Addressing Hidden Wealth
Just as Congress begins debate on the Republicans’ “Tax Cut and Jobs Act,” new revelations have emerged about how wealthy elites around the world hide their wealth. The “Paradise Papers” — the result of a leak from the Bermuda-based...
Resource Limitations
How do we know at what level our consumption is sustainable, and when we’re in planetary overshoot? How do we quantify what the planet’s capacity is to meet human demands, and how much of that capacity is renewable, and...
The Water Win-Win: Food and Ecosystems in balance
Sandra Postel‘s new book is Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. It’s about the world water cycle, and about real solutions to the problem of providing water for people and food, and at the same time for nature...
Vermont has Developed America’s Most Comprehensive Food Plan
Everything Is at Stake, Including Steak
An Independent Thinker’s Guide to the Tax Debate
For 40 years, tax cutters in Congress have told us, “we have a tax cut for you.” And each time, they count on us to suspend all judgment. In exchange, we’ve gotten staggering inequality, collapsing public infrastructure, a fraying...
The Community Resilience Reader: Radio Ecoshock interview
NOTE: Daniel’s interview begins at 4:12 mins “Resilience” is a key word for a spectrum starting with collapseniks all the way to big city Mayors and regional planners. But what is it? Has anybody thought this through? Enter The...
Preparing for Floods, Droughts and Water Shortages by Working with, Rather than Against, Nature
As I wound my way up Poudre Canyon in northern Colorado, the river flowed toward...
Team Human Podcast: There’s No App for That, with Richard Heinberg
By Douglas Rushkoff, with Richard Heinberg, originally published by Team Human Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard...
BFM Podcast with Richard Heinberg: There’s No App for That
In a manifesto released back in August, Richard Heinberg explains why technology, which is widely heralded as our saviour, is not the secret sauce to solve all our environmental troubles. In this podcast he joins Juliet Jacobs to discuss...
Introduction to The Community Resilience Reader
We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch and published with Island Press. Here is the Introduction chapter, which explains why we’ve...