Whither Shale Oil?—Interview with David Hughes
Interview by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Q: Andrews–Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energy dialogue by storm. When did you sense that the shale oil plays had the kind of muscle they are...
Snake Oil: Richard Heinberg on the Great Shale Snooker
Credit: KunstlerCast | Download James Howard Kunslter talks with Richard Heinberg about his new book, Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promises of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard is also the author of the great peak oil primer, The Party’s Over, and many...
Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Are Under Assault by Oil and Gas Drilling
You can take action to ban fracking on federal lands here. Photo Credit: Ecoflight As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana’s Rocky...
Small-scale Irrigation Boosts Incomes and Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa
A solar-powered drip irrigation system waters vegetable crops in northern Benin. Photo by Jennifer A. Burney For millions of poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa, access to water makes the difference between hunger and a full belly, between...
Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff
You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at...
Majora Carter at CEP 2013 National Conference
Highlights from the keynote speech Majora Carter gave at the dinner of CEP’s 2013 National Conference, “Pursuing Results: Effective Foundation Practice.”
Profiles in Sharing: Janelle Orsi – The Sharing Economy Lawyer
By Cat Johnson, Shareable I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Oakland, just up the block from a HUB coworking space and a stone’s throw from a BART station. The wooden tables are full and sharing them is the...
Water Stress Threatens Future Energy Production
When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States. Thermoelectric power plants alone use more than 200 billion gallons of water a day – about...
Chandeliers, the President of France, and the future of economic growth: a report
Last week I attended an extraordinary occasion in Paris, which felt momentus and historic, but in the somewhat confused and mixed way these things often do. Hosted in the incredible, palatial National Assembly, with its statues, chandeliers and gold...
A Red List for Ecosystems: Will it Aid Conservation?
The Aral Sea in Central Asia, in 1989 (L) and 2008 (R). Images courtesy of NASA. The most devastated ecosystem I’ve ever seen is the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the world’s fourth largest lake, the Aral spanned an area...