On Standing Rock and the Ballot Box
After 18 months, the U.S. Presidential election is just a week away and, with one notable exception, we at PCI have remained largely silent on it. That’s not because we deem it unimportant or are worried about upsetting readers...
Why the Rich Should Reverse Inequality
An excerpt from the just released, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good, reprinted by The Nation: The extreme levels of inequality in our society are...
Native Americans and Conservationists Collaborate to Return Vital Flow to the Rio Grande
Through a collaborative project of Audubon New Mexico and Pueblos in the Middle Rio Grande, water returns to the river through a drainage outfall to keep it flowing during the dry summer. Photo: Sharon Wirth/Audubon New Mexico The first...
A Strategy to Stop the Funding Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline
Most Americans live far from the path of the Dakota Access pipeline—they won’t be able to visit the encampments on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation where representatives of more than 200 tribes have come together in the most dramatic...
Book Review ‘Born on Third Base’ by Chuck Collins
A review of Born on Third Base: a one percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home and committing to the common good by Chuck Collins. Chelsea Green Publishing. I am regularly, and rightly, asked about the...
Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom
Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but everybody does it. As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, “What will tomorrow bring?” The answers have ranged...
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...