Enough is Enough: Coal Pollution Spills Reveal a Water Safety Crisis
Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, OVEC and AlterNet have partnered to show us what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters (including the Freedom Industries chemical spill, the Duke Energy ash spill and Tuesday’s slurry...
Peak Oil and the socio-economic impact of depleting fossil fuel resources
Credit: Progressive Commentary Hour | Download Progressive Radio’s Gary Null talks peak oil, climate change, economy, culture, policy and much more with regular Resilience.org author Kurt Cobb and PCI Board Member Nate Hagens.
Fracking in Water-Stressed Zones Increases Risks to Communities – and Energy Producers
Nearly half of the wells hydraulically fractured (indicated by black dots) in the United States are located in areas of high or extremely high water stress (shown in red and dark red). Graphic courtesy of Ceres Even as concerns...
Tina Clarke on resourcing your Transition initiative
Tina Clarke is a Transition Trainer and more recently a REconomy trainer, helping to develop new REconomy trainings for Transition groups. On Tuesday February 11th between 19.00 and 20.30 GMT (14.00 -15.30 EST), she will be presenting, along with...
West Virginia’s Elk River Chemical Spill and How We Measure Progress
It’s a cruel irony for the 300,000 West Virginians forced to turn off their taps for five to ten days earlier this month after a chemical spill contaminated their drinking water supply that their inconvenience and, for some, illness and suffering,...
America’s Feel-Good Oil Bonanza
Think back to early 2004. Oil cost around $40 per barrel1—on the high side compared to the previous few decades but not much out of the ordinary. Gasoline still cost under $2.00 a gallon for most of the country....
Why a conservative economist moved to the country
This summer, Paul Solman and a film crew from PBS Newshour visited the Martenson homestead to capture the message behind the Peak Prosperity movement.
Ecological Artist Basia Irland and Her “Ice Books” Engage Communities and Restore Rivers
Engrossed: A young girl “reads” ice-book text comprised of Fremont cottonwood seed (Populus fremontii) beside the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Basia Irland is a sculptor, poet, and installation artist who has focused her creativity on rivers for thirty...
Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: be careful what you wish for
It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and the co-founder of permaculture, I generally find his intellect formidable, his insights on permaculture revelatory, and his take on the wider patterns and...
Shale gas, peak oil and our future
The following interview with Richard Heinberg was originally published in Flemish at the Belgian website De Wereld Morgen. The interview was given in conjunction with the release of the Dutch translation of Richard’s Book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False...