The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan: Foreword
Ed. note: The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan, written by Ezra Silk, is a policy document that tangibly demonstrates how the U.S. could eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, contribute to a global effort to restore a safe climate,...
The Transition Town Movement with Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins recently appeared as a guest on the the Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann. Their conversation spans permaculture, Transition, BREXIT, and what it takes build real community resilience. Photo Credit: Jim Wileman
US needs White House Climate Change Council to protect lives and economy
With the Zika virus spreading in Florida, it’s timely to consider how we will prepare for our increasing real-time manifestations of climate change. Once thought to be a threat in the distant future, the impacts of climate change are...
Presentation: The Challenges & Opportunities in the Transition to 100% Renewable Energy
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
Post Carbon Institute Fellows Richard Heinberg and David Fridley gave a joint presentation to the Security & Sustainability Forum to share the key findings and takeaways from their 2016 book Our Renewable Future (now available for free online at...
How Smarter Irrigation Might Save Rare Mussels and Ease a Water War
Casey Cox, Executive Director of the Flint River Partnership, checks the control panel on a sprinkler system equipped with advanced irrigation scheduling technology. Photo by Sandra Postel Casey Cox, who hails from a family with five generations of farming...
Fracking and health: What we know from Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom
Flaring at a fracked well in northwestern Pennsylvania. One potential cause of health problems, such as asthma, in communities with fracking is higher rates of air pollution. wcn247/flickr, CC BY-NC By Sara G. Rasmussen, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Health...
Homeownership is Dead! Long Live the Permanent Real Estate Cooperative!
Imagine that a group of people works hard to fill their neighborhood with urban farms, bike lanes, parks, murals, community services, and education programs. Next, imagine that those same people are forced to move away. Ouch, that bites. Sadly,...
In Conversation: Communications and Technology After Fossil Fuels
Modern communications systems send information across vast distances in massive quantities at breathtaking speeds. Every sector of the economy depends on the capture, access, and rapid transmission of information: from stock market quotes to weather forecasts; from orders for...
The Shift Away from Fossil Fuels
The following interview with Richard Heinberg was originally posted at InfrastructureUSA.org. Transitioning to Electric Transportation Our most recent efforts have been to identify how the process of transitioning to 100% renewable energy will impact society. And we look not just...
Asher Miller on the Sustainability & Resilience of Our Food System
Over the past eight years Asher Miller has served as Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute (PCI). Read on to learn what three things led Asher into the sustainability field, what he sees as the biggest barriers to bringing about...