Richard Heinberg talks Snake Oil
Credit: The many shades of green | DownloadLike traveling medicine men in the old west, oil and gas companies are trying to sell us their panacea for our future energy needs. My guest Richard Heinberg, author of the book Snake Oil: How...
Powering California: Is hydraulic fracturing California’s energy future?
Is hydraulic fracturing California’s energy future? It’s being hailed as a modern day gold rush by some, by others, an environmental disaster. Is there any middle ground? Post Carbon Institute Board Member Debbie Cook and Director of Energy In...
The Big Debate: Is there a ‘Transition position’ on fracking?
During August, at the peak of the campaign against the fracking for natural gas at Balcombe, West Sussex, the BBC ran a story called Dorking ‘green’ group in favour of fracking. It stated, “One group in Surrey set up...
Snake Oil interview on Ecology Hour
Credit: Ecology Hour, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting Richard Heinberg talks about his new book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future.
“Peak Oil Demand” = Peak Oil
Originally posted at Resilience.org A new phrase has entered our energy lexicon—peak oil demand. The essential idea: prophets of doom who warned about a looming global petroleum shortfall (“peak oil”) were wrong; instead of a downturn in supply, we’re...
The Sharing Economy Just Got Real
The legal problems of the sharing economy just got real. The latest lawsuits against “ride-sharing” companies Lyft and Über could be game changers. The plaintiffs are drivers who give rides to strangers for money, paying a portion of their earnings to...
A Dam, Dying Fish, and a Montana Farmer’s Lifelong Quest to Right a Wrong
In the pantheon of river conservationists, few may leave a legacy larger than that of Roger Muggli, a third-generation farmer in eastern Montana. Thanks to his decades of efforts to help fish safely pass 12 Mile Dam, an irrigation...
Exposing the Myths of Fracking
Credit: KWMR Post Carbon | Download Interview with Richard Heinberg, author of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, with Mainstreet Moms – Kris Brown, Kathy Calloway, and Mary Morgan.
The Puerto Rico Report
I spent August 27 and 28 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the invitation of María A. Juncos Gautier, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Studies of the Universidad Metropolitana, with strong support from Dr. Carlos Padín, Chancellor...
Business vs. Business : The Real Climate Battle Begins
This is where it gets really interesting. Since I first engaged in the climate debate in the late 1980’s it’s all been fairly slow and predictable. Environmentalists argued for action, big business resisted and government acted as the referee,...