Is Urban Sustainability Possible?
William Rees gave one of the Keynote Speeches for Day 2 of the Dresden Nexus Conference 2015 (DNC2015), which took place 26 March 2015 in Dresden, Germany. His speech, entitled “Is Urban Sustainability Possible? Biophysical and Political Considerations”, aims...
The Sharing Economy: Janelle Orsi interview
Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi talks with Pamela Brown and Micky Metts on the Laura Flanders show. Note: The interview begins at 12:00 minutes.
My Personal Burnout Audit
In her framing editorial for our theme of burnout and balance, Sophy Banks asked: “What should leaders in our groups and our movement be modelling to show that well being and balance are more important than always doing? To...
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will achieve savings in the ongoing energy expenditures needed for economic production. We will be rewarded with a quality of life that is acceptable—and, perhaps, preferable to our current one...
Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
YES! Illustration by Jensine Eckwall. Physics can impose a bracing clarity on the normally murky world of politics. It can make things simple. Not easy, but simple. Most of the time, public policy is a series of trade-offs: higher taxes...
Why Sustainability?
The following essay was written at the invitation of the curators, Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, for the catalog of the current special exhibit at the Istanbul Modern art gallery, Till It’s Gone: An Exhibition on Nature and Sustainability. The...
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy
A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase. Natural gas fracking is the apparent culprit. This finding should be (though...
Exxon’s Never-Ending Big Dig
Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and New York) probing the biggest fossil fuel company on Earth (ExxonMobil), while both Democratic presidential candidates are...
Nate Hagens: Reality 101 – A Survey of the Human Predicament
Download From Radio Ecoshock: I don’t know about you, but I’m often stuck on Bob Dylan’s words: “something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is”. Wouldn’t it be great if we could take a course...
Repairing The Water Cycle
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot – Oh Christ! That ever this should be. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge El Niño has...