The Peak Oil Crisis: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s ‘Snake Oil’
Richard Heinberg has been following and writing about peak oil for a long time. In the last decade, he has published 10 books on peak oil and related resource depletion topics as well as given some 500 lectures warning...
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during...
Change the Course: Hope for “Troubled Waters”
Sandra Postel views the world through a water lens, advocating for all to make simple and easy changes to their everyday lives that will help “Change the Course” of the Earth’s precious supply of freshwater.
Our Work: Erika Allen, Farmer
Erika Allen, the Chicago and National Projects director for Growing Power, talks about the importance of farming and how it impacts civilization as well as the similarities in today’s practices as she examines an ancient clay sickle from Chogha...
Richard Heinberg on Natural Gas: Bridge Fuel or Fool’s Gold?
Credit: Seachange Radio | Download We’ve spoken to Richard Heinberg in the past about several problems inherent to our carbon-based economy, from peak oil, to coal to what he has dubbed “the end of growth.” Now the author and senior fellow at the Post...
A Foodshed View of Resilience
“Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to another useful word: “foodshed.” The photograph above depicts New Yorkers lining...
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...