A Colorado Delta Community Reconnects with its River
Two days after the initial release of water at Morelos Dam, Michelle Selinas expresses sheer delight at the return of the Colorado River. Photo by Cheryl Zook / National Geographic On Tuesday afternoon, March 25, 2014, word got...
Exxon Mobil’s response to climate change is consummate arrogance
: Monday saw the release of the latest climate report from the planet’s scientists. Predictions of famine, flood, and so on – mostly what we already knew, in even more striking language. But Monday also saw the release of another document...
Will the Monterey Shale be an energy and economic boon for California?
On March 27, 2014 “Drilling California” author J. David Hughes was joined by business leader and Next Generation co-founder Tom Steyer and Robert Collier, a research fellow with Next Generation, to discuss the prospects of developing California’s Monterey Shale...
Export Stupidity
Congress is holding hearings this week on the possible lifting of a US oil export ban instituted in the 1970s to promote national energy self-sufficiency and has invited a number of “experts” with dubious ties to the oil and...
Michael Shuman: The Benefits of Deploying Investment Capital Locally Vs Wall Street
Chris Martenson Michael Shuman
Credit: Peak Prosperity | Download The Federal Reserve and other central planners have worked overtime to lead the world back to “recovery” from the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. Using one of their main signaling indicators, they’ve succeeded: stock market indices are...
This World Water Day, Something Big to Celebrate
A withered tree in the once wet and fertile Colorado River Delta. Next week, a “pulse flow” will begin returning some water to the delta. Photo by Erik Rochner/National Geographic On Monday, March 24, I leave on a trip...
Book Review: Snake Oil: how fracking’s false promise of plenty imperils our future
Paul Mobbs reviews Richard Heinberg’s latest book. For those who thought the ‘fracking’ issue was just about water pollution and earthquakes, Richard Heinberg’s Snake Oil might be a little perplexing. You don’t get to the parts about environmental pollution until about...
The Oil ‘Revolution’ Story Is Dead Wrong: transcript
Chris Martenson Richard Heinberg
This is a transcript of a conversation between Post Carbon Fellows Chris Martenson and Richard Heinberg, recorded for the Peak Prosperity podcast. Listen to the interview here. TRANSCRIPT Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host,...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Our Harsh Winter Continues
Two weeks ago we discussed the impact that the polar vortex was having on our natural gas supplies and noted that our stocks of natural gas were already 500 billion cubic feet below where they should be for this...
Carbon Crash Solar Dawn
I think it’s time to call it. Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry towards inevitable collapse. Some of you will struggle with...