Richard Heinberg and Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty
Terrence McNally: Stories of a World That Might Just Work What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” of natural gas? Probably depends on who you’re listening to. The fossil fuel industry tells you it’s the biggest energy...
Heinberg on the Extraenvironmentalist
The Extraenvironmentalist Richard Heinberg updates us on the shale oil bubble and the implications of peak oil as we discuss Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard reflects on the timing of peak oil predictions and what...
10 Things We’re Grateful For
When you try to share the looming challenges with friends and family, do they sometimes say: “Enough about the problems, what are you going to do about it?” In the in the spirit of Thanksgiving and our 10th...
How Palm Oil in Everything From Food to Fuel Is Killing Orangutans and Exacerbating Climate Change
By Mike Gaworecki, Leslie Moyer – originally published at Alternet Palm oil. It’s the ubiquitous additive in everything from soaps and lotions to cookies and diet foods. It’s found in junk food like Cheez-Its, Tootsie Rolls, and M&Ms, but...
Top 10 Reader’s Favorites – Resilience and Energy Bulletin
One of the things that sets the Resilience.org/EnergyBulletin community apart is our passionate commitment and deep involvement. So what better way to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this community (and Post Carbon Institute) than by sharing the favorite reads...
Krugman Goes Splat
I was fairly amazed to read Paul Krugman’s latest op-ed in the New York Times, titled “A Permanent Slump?” He seemed to be coming remarkably close to saying what several of us have been trumpeting for the past few...
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...