“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,...
Ask a Food Lawyer: Breaking Down Legal Barriers for Small-Scale Local Food
This is an interview by Michele Simon from Eat Drink Politics, with Janelle Orsi, executive director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center Janelle Orsi is an attorney in Oakland, California who practices “sharing law.” In addition to her law...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Middle East in Context
While awaiting further developments in the Syrian poison gas crisis, it is a good time to review the general deterioration going on across the Middle East and the outlook for oil production from the region. Hardly a month goes...
What Van Gogh can teach us about education and learning
While many people’s summer reading might have consisted of the new Dan Brown book or perhaps the JK Rowling book that wasn’t by her and then was, mine focused on Vincent Van Gogh. As we focus for this month’s...
Josh Farley: The Foundation for a New Economy
Josh Farley, a professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont was the keynote speaker Friday night in Madison, WI for the dedication of the Farley Center for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability. I caught up with Josh after...