Greece Diary
I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both enlightening...
Talking Resilience with Chuck Collins: Welcome to the Future
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Chuck Collins is a board member at Post Carbon Institute, and senior scholar at the Institute for Policy...
Talking Resilience with Ellen Choy: Justice isn’t Inevitable
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Ellen Choy is a member of Movement Generation’s staff collective, whose responsibilities includes communications, facilitating workshops and trainings,...
Talking Resilience with Doria Robinson: Living Within a Limit is OK
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Doria Robinson is the Executive Director of Urban Tilth, based in Richmond, CA. Urban Titlh works to build...
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson interviews Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben. Full Transcript Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity Podcast, I am your host, Chris Martenson. May 2015, was the wettest on record for Texas and...
The “Sixth Extinction” Adds Urgency to Habitat and Climate Protection
The Northern Mexican gartnersnake (Thamnophis eques) lives in wetland areas alongside rivers. Over 90 percent of its riverside habitat has disappeared in the last century due to overgrazing, water diversions, wildfires and drought. A proposed diversion of the Gila...
Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy
As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we...
Economics vs. the Economy
Economic theories, though social constructions, can reflect reality to varying degrees. In the face of dire environmental challenges, adopting a realistic theory is key to the survival of global civilization. The neoliberal emphasis on limitless growth and monetary flows,...
Solar Electricity Buybacks May Reduce Groundwater Depletion in India
Ramanbhai Parmar, a wheat and banana farmer in India’s dry state of Gujarat, was the first to sell electricity back to the power grid from the solar panels that drive his water pump. Photo credit: CCAFS/Prashanth Vishwanathan It’s hard...
Turning 21 in the Anthropocene
On Earth Day Eve 2015, Nate Hagens presented Turning 21 in the Anthropocene: An Invitation for Young People to Participate in their Future at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dr. Hagens’ talk was co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for...