Delicious Development: The Powerful Role of Local Food in Job Creation
Michael H. Shuman, author of Local Dollars, Local Sense presents “Delicious Development: The Powerful Role of Local Food in Job Creation” at the Sustainable Communities Workshop on October 29, 2014 in Sarasota, FL.
Bridging the Chasm: The Intergenerational Challenge of Climate Destabilization
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr and his son, the Reverend Daniel Orr presented and conversed at the 2014 Earthkeeping Summit, an event hosted by Ohio Interfaith Power and Light and The Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural...
The Party’s Over: Energy and Debt
Richard Heinberg was one of 45 leading scholars, authors and activists who convened at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, on October 25-26, 2014, for the public presentation: “Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth.” This...
The Peak Oil Crisis: A Reality Check
For the last four or five years, we have been bombarded with a stream of stories about the “shale revolution.” Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the U.S., were said to have released oceans of new oil and a...
The Revolution That Wasn’t: Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry
A new, landmark report shows that hopes of a long-term golden era in American oil & gas production are unfounded. America’s energy landscape has undergone a dramatic shift over the last decade—literally and figuratively—as a result of the...
Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World
A Marine Corps friend of mine defines resilience as the ability to take a gut punch and come back swinging. More formally, it is said to be the capacity to maintain core functions and values in the face of...
Limits to Growth: Where We Are and What to Do About It
In this talk, Nate Hagens synthesizes the current landscape of global energy, environment and financial risks while offering suggestions on what to do as a hominid living on a full planet. He raises the question of whether it is...
What the Disappearing Aral Sea Tells Us about the Value of Water
The satellite image of the Aral Sea recently released by NASA just about knocked my socks off. It wasn’t that the sea was shrinking; that’s been true for decades. It was how fast it was disappearing. Once the world’s...
Paul Krugman and the Limits of Hubris
Economist Paul Krugman evidently feels irked and irritated by the notion that there might be limits to economic expansion: he has followed up his New York Times op-ed of September 18 (“Errors and Emissions,” to which I replied here)...
Rivers Need a Thorough Health Exam
Rivers are the blue arteries of the Earth. Their flows deliver sediment and nutrients to floodplains, deltas and coastal zones, some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet. They connect and sustain the web of life. So...