The Climate-PR Puzzle
If we hope to avert climate apocalypse in the decades ahead, we must make fundamental changes to industrial society. Before those changes can be approved and implemented, citizens and policy makers must first come to understand they are essential...
Top 10 Hits – Resilience and Energy Bulletin
Ever wondered which articles have been accessed the most at Resilience.org and Energy Bulletin? Here’s the run down…What have been some of your favorites? Please let us know in the comments section at the bottom. Resilience.org Top 10...
The Peak Oil Crisis: So, Why is Gasoline So Cheap?
There are many zigs and zags, twists and turns, and unintended consequences along the path to higher priced and scarce oil. Only three months ago it seemed we were headed towards an aerial bombardment of Syria’s armed forces which...
Who knew that Seoul was a leader in the sharing economy?
Seoul Skyline. Did you know that Seoul, South Korea is one of the world’s key sites for post-growth economic re-development? No? Neither did I, until I saw for myself. I was pleased to be invited to give the keynote...
10 Years After “The Party’s Over”: an interview with Richard Heinberg
While running the risk of sounding like a Hello! Magazine reporter, I must introduce this post by saying that while in the US recently, I joined Richard Heinberg and his wife Janet in their beautiful permaculture garden in Santa...
How Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition are responding to austerity
One of the most inspiring Transition initiatives I visited in the US recently was Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston. With our theme for this month focusing on austerity, JPNET (as they are known to their friends) have...
Stronger Efforts Needed to Reduce Nitrate Pollution in Mississippi River Basin
Despite growing concern over the last two decades about the low-oxygen “dead zone” that emerges each summer in the fisheries-rich Gulf of Mexico, the nitrate pollution at the root of the problem continues to rise. That’s the upshot of...
J. David Hughes: The Energy Sustainability Dilemma
A fascinating talk by J. David Hughes given at Cornell: “The Energy Sustainability Dilemma : Powering the Future in a Finite World.” Most of the easy energy is gone. This was from oil which was plentiful, and easy to...
Bill McKibben interview – time for the climate movement to get on the front foot
Interview by Adam Ramsey, Open Democracy Leading American climate change activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibbon calls for environmentalists to get on the front foot ahead of his European speaker tour. Journalist and author Bill McKibben is...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Shale Oil Bubble
Most of us are aware by now that the introduction of widespread hydraulic fracturing into the oil and gas business has resulted in a rapid growth in U.S. production. U.S. crude output is up by nearly 2.5 million barrels...