Recent Loss of Freshwater Wetlands Worldwide Valued at $2.7 Trillion per Year
The question of whether to drain a wetland to make way for a shopping mall or a cornfield, or to instead leave the wetland intact, often seems like a no-brainer: the “development” options have a clear dollar value, but...
Bottom Up, Top Down
Those of us who have some grasp of the urgent dilemmas posed by climate change and peak oil face a terrible conundrum. The whole system of industrial civilization is moving toward collapse. How can we reverse course to avert...
Meet Ashoka Fellow Janelle Orsi
Meet new Ashoka Fellow Janelle Orsi. Janelle is Executive Director of Sustainable Economies Law Center, and a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute.
Want to Change the World? Read This First
History is often made by strong personalities wielding bold new political, economic, or religious doctrines. Yet any serious effort to understand how and why societies change requires examination not just of leaders and ideas, but also of environmental circumstances....
Spring of Sustainability – Our Energy Reality
Credit: Spring of Sustainability | Download A teleseminar with Richard Heinberg: Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author, & Ken White: Associate Director of the Post Carbon Institute. This interview is part of the Spring of Sustainability, a global tele series where...
World’s Large Cities Move Water Equivalent to Ten Colorado Rivers to Meet their Annual Water Needs
As cities grow in population and economic activity, they reach further and further out to find water to meet their needs. Now, a new study has estimated that collectively the world’s large cities, defined as those with at least 750,000 people,...
Is Transition political?
Criticising Transition for being explicitly apolitical, and for not engaging in the political system in the conventional way feels, to me, like criticising a spoon for not being very good at cutting bread. Transition is a tool designed for...
The Global Energy Market’s Moment of Truth
If you want to know what addressing climate change will really be like for business and investors, then take a look at today’s electricity and energy markets. Driven by climate policy, technology development, business innovation, NGO campaigns and investment...
IEA Says the Party’s Over
The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report called “World Energy Investment Outlook” that should send policy makers screaming and running for the exits—if they are willing to read between the lines and view the report...
The Latest Trends in Sustainable Communities
Originally posted at Solutions Journal. Solutions invited two pioneers in local and regional economic development to discuss new trends in sustainable communities. MH: Michael Shuman GA: Gar Alperovitz MS: Economic development currently counsels communities across the planet to attract...