2015 Tight Oil Reality Check
Much of the cost-benefit debate over fracking has come down to the perception of just how much domestic oil and gas it can produce and at what cost. To answer this question, policymakers, the media, and the general public...
The Key to Your Health Could be in Your ZIP Code
By Brian Schwartz and Annemarie Hirsch Where do you live? Mark Strozier/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND In January 2015, President Obama launched the Precision Medicine Initiative, a plan to support research into treatment and prevention strategies that take differences between people – especially genetics – into...
Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now!
Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a...
Take the Money and Burn: How CEO Pay Accelerates Climate Change
Runaway CEO pay at the 30 largest U.S. public fossil fuel corporations rewards short-term actions, with disastrous results for the world’s climate, a new report finds. CEOs at big oil, gas and coal corporations are rewarded for a short-term...
Talking Resilience with Lynn Benander: Community is Created by Filling the Cup
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Lynn Benander is the President and CEO of Co-op Power. Co-op Power is a consumer-owned sustainable energy cooperative...
Top 10 Reasons to Read Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense
This week marks the official publication of Post Carbon Institute’s first handbook on local investment, written by myself and Gwen Hallsmith. Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense, builds on my 2012 book on local investment, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to...
The Peak Oil Crisis: A $4 Trillion Hole
Last week reporters at the Wall Street Journal sat down and did some arithmetic. They looked at how much oil was selling for in the spring of 2014 (over $100 a barrel); looked at what it is selling for...
Amazing New Energy Source: Introducing TREES
Scientists at the Climate/Energy Design and Research institute (CEDAR) have just announced the discovery of an astounding new energy source that promises to solve several of humanity’s thorniest dilemmas at once. “This is a paradigm-shifting moment,” says Dawn O’Newday,...
Talking Resilience with Sarah Byrnes: Figuring Out Your Role
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Sarah Byrnes is the Co-Director of the New England Regional Transition, a program of the Institute for Policy...
As the Gold King Spill Reminds Us, We All Live Downstream
The Animas River Between Silverton and Durango, Colorado, within 24 hours of the spill from Gold King Mine. Photo credit: Riverhugger/Creative Commons. Around this time last year, I was walking the banks of the Animas River in Durango, the...