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...
Will Obama Block the Keystone Pipeline or Just Keep Bending?
As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on — and it’s now well over two years old — it’s illuminated the Obama presidency like no other issue. It offers the president not just a choice of policies, but...
Home(town) Security
Majora Carter believes that it’s more productive to call for “Environmental Equality” rather than for the end of “Environmental Racism” in her fight to stop the practice of overburdening poor communities with a disproportionate number of polluting industries. What’s...
Rob Hopkins on Transition and the Power of Just Doing Stuff
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins spoke about what communities can do to meet the challenges we face by “making the politically impossible politically inevitable”. This talk was given at Tufts University. Rob was one of 3 speakers. Rob’s talk...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Cars, Trucks & Buses
It is time to take a break from the gloom and doom in Washington and the Middle East and look at for some better news about the future of energy. Every day I look at a web site run...