Systems Thinking and the Future of Cities
Photo credit: Stuck in Customs / Flickr. Creative Commons 2.0 license. “We live in an interconnected world”, the author argues. In Brief The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in...
Export Delusions: Why the rush to export natural gas is a fool’s errand
Click the thumbnails to view slideshow. © J Henry Fair, flights provided by LightHawk On a sweltering day in May last year I sat dumbfounded at a US Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee meeting. Pat Outtrim, VP of Cheniere...
A Sacred Reunion: The Colorado River Returns to the Sea
After coursing through its delta for nearly eight weeks, the fresh waters of the Colorado River have touched the high tides of the salty sea. It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River, which flows...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Monterey Shale Debacle
Last week the LA Times ran a story saying that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is about to reduce “its” estimate of the amount of shale oil that can be recovered from the Monterey Shale under California by...
As It Happens: California shale oil
CBC Radio An interview with Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes on how the oil industry managed to overestimate the amount of extractable oil in a California shale formation by a truly astonishing amount: about fourteen billion barrels. Segment begins...
Melting of Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstoppable, Will Raise Sea Levels Worldwide
Credit: Between The Lines | Download Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Richard Heinberg, senior fellow-in-residence at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 11 books on energy and the environment. Here he discusses the recent reports on melting ice in...
What Happened to My 13 Billion Barrels?
In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy commissioned INTEK Inc., a Virginia-based consulting firm, to estimate how much oil might be recoverable from California’s vast Monterey Shale formation. Production of tight oil was...
About the Public Energy Art Kit
Lead artist Steve Lambert introduces the project. Much more at energy-reality.org/art/. About the Public Energy Art Kit from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Next-Generation Infrastructure
This spring, yet another Presidential appeal for fixing the nation’s “raggedy” infrastructure (his word choice) failed to stir a response from Congress. However, bolder moves elsewhere to renew these critical services are reported here. I’m highlighting the following initiatives...
Introducing YOUR Public Energy Art Kit
It is time to take an honest look at our energy predicament and change course. If we don’t, and soon, it’s likely that we’ll find ourselves in a world starved of energy, resources and even basic sustenance. Our request...