Talking Resilience with Trathen Heckman: Building Resilience Through Daily Actions
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Trathen Heckman is the founding executive director of Daily Acts, which transforms homes and communities into vibrant centers...
The Nation’s Oldest Weekly Channels PCI
Yesterday The Nation published a must-read article on how the drop in oil prices is shaking the foundation of the so-called “shale revolution” and how renewable energy is poised to take off. Right now, our fossil-fueled energy path has us on...
Talking Resilience with Vicki Robin: We Have Enough Together
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Vicki Robin is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money...
Talking Resilience with Marissa Mommaerts: What to Tell the Neighbors
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Marissa Mommaerts works with Transition U.S. the national hub for the International Transition Towns movement. She also is...
Talking Resilience with Timothy DenHerder-Thomas: Powering Community
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Timothy DenHerder-Thomas is the General Manager of Cooperative Energy Futures, a for-profit co-op that builds people-powered solutions to...
2015 Shale Gas Reality Check
In October 2014, Post Carbon Institute published the results of what likely remains the most thorough independent analysis of U.S. shale gas and tight oil production ever conducted. The process of drilling for shale gas and tight oil is...
A Look at the West Virginia University Assessment of Technically Recoverable Gas in the Utica Shale
Last week, members of the media breathlessly reported—based on a new study published by West Virginia University (WVU) entitled A Geologic Play Book for Utica Shale Appalachian Basin Exploration—that the Utica Shale could hold more recoverable gas than the...
Talking Resilience with Helena Norberg-Hodge: Experiencing Traditional Community Resilience
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Helena Norberg-Hodge is the director and founder of Local Futures, and founder of the International Alliance for Localization....
With One-Third of Largest Aquifers Highly Stressed, It’s Time to Explore and Assess the Planet’s Groundwater
NASA’s twin-satellite mission known as GRACE has helped scientists estimate how much water is being depleted from the world’s major aquifers, but there is great uncertainty about how much water these aquifers hold. Image courtesy of NASA. Imagine if...
Talking Resilience with Nikki Silvestri: Economy, Ecology, Equity
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Over the last ten years, Nikki Silvestri has been a thought leader in creating social equity for underrepresented...