Wealthiest One Percent, Come Home!
Chuck Collins believes that extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including those with great wealth. He invites all of us — but especially the wealthy of the United States — to come home,...
Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home
COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition. We all know that the transition away from fossil fuels is key to maintaining a livable planet. Several...
Dam Ideology
Condit Dam in Washington state before it was removed from the White Salmon River in 2011-2012. Photo credit: Creative Commons. When it comes to water, concrete trumps common sense. That was the take-home message Wednesday evening from Daniel P....
Remembering Doug Tompkins
From Richard Heinberg and entire staff & board of Post Carbon Institute We at Post Carbon Institute heard today with profound sadness of the sudden passing of Doug Tompkins—one of the world’s foremost conservationists and a great friend...
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than the...
Rob Hopkins reports from COP21 in Paris
Today was the most thought-provoking day, at times viscerally so. The logo for COP21 says ‘Tous ensemble pour le climat’, or “all together for the climate” (see right). Yet today was a day when the battle lines felt clearly...
Have We Hit Peak Wealth Inequality?
20 billionaires now have more wealth than half U.S. population When will we become alarmed about so much wealth in so few hands? The Great Recession and its anemic recovery only deepened the economic inequality that’s drawn so much...
La Grande Négociation: while we bargain, our ultimate fate comes down to acceptance
I have to confess a certain reluctance in sharing my views about the Paris climate talks, knowing as I do that it’s all too easy to judge from a distance while so many wonderful, dedicated colleagues are in Paris...
Water Resilience with Sandra Postel
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel gave this interview at the BSR 2015 conference where she was a keynote speaker.
Competing Visions of Sustainability: Scarcity or Abundance?
Bill Sheehan, Ph.D., is Founder, UPSTREAM. This article is from a talk given at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine on September 14, 2015. “Sustainability” has become the master term for...