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...
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...