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...
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...