The Peak Oil Crisis: Supply Shock
A new phrase, “supply shock,” entered the lexicon of the global oil business this week when the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that unexpectedly rapid growth in tight oil production from North Dakota and Texas is leading to profound...
Counting the Calories and calories
This is part 6 of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". So how does eating out stack up? Read Part 1, Read Part...
Governance in the Long Emergency
This is Chapter 26 of the new WorldWatch State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? report. It is reproduced here with permission. The first evidence linking climate change and human emissions of carbon dioxide was painstakingly assembled...
Excerpt from Heinberg: Adapting to the “New Normal” – Financial limits
From Richard’s speech at The New Economics Institute Conference June 2012 – Strategies for a New Economy.
South African Anti-Fracking Activist Calls for Global Alliance
Anti-fracking activist Jonathan Deal, winner of a 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, discusses strategy to save the Karoo region of his native South Africa from gas drilling. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize “We’ve got to stop doing this,” said Jonathan Deal,...
Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks
This is part 5 of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". In this excerpt we enter the kitchen. Read Part 1, Read...
Food ENERGY: Processing
This is part 4 of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". This excerpt focuses on strategies for reducing the energy footprint of...
How anti-coal campaigners are protecting Australia’s economy
Irony doesn’t get any better than this. Environmentalists and farmers fighting the expansion of coal mining and coal seam gas across Australia are protecting the economy. If they are successful in slowing down or reversing these sectors in Australia,...
Locus Focus: Rebuilding the foodshed – a conversation with Phillip Ackerman-Leist
Credit: KBOO | Download We live at a time of transition: when factory-farmed food from the other side of the world crosses paths with organics raised at a local CSA (community-supported agriculture). The question many ask is: which direction leads us to...
Food Movement: Wheels, Water, Rail, and Air
This is part 3 of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". This excerpt looks at the challenge of moving food from farm...