The Serious Challenge of Our Time
This is the text of Wes Jackson’s Commencement Address at University of Kansas, from Sunday, May 19, 2013 Chancellor Gray-Little, faculty, fellow honorees, members of the board of regents. And now I come to the family members; sacrifices have...
This American Life: Hot in my backyard
This American Life Host Ira Glass tells the story of writer turned activist Bill McKibben. McKibben is trying to reinvent progressive politics when it come to climate change. He’s attempting to create a divestment campaign modeled after the successful...
Spring of Sustainability – Snake Oil: How Big Energy’s Misleading Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
Credit: Spring of Sustainability Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg gave this interview in May 2013 as part of the Spring of Sustainability Teleseminar Series .
So Much Wasted Energy – Rethinking food waste
This is the final part of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems“. This installment shows the big problem we have with...
Share Spray: A New Way To Do Everything
The Sharing Solution and the Center for a New American Dream have launched a new 5-minute animation: Share Spray — A New Way To Do Everything. With creativity, charm, and a bit of fun, Share Spray explores how sharing could transform our lives and neighborhoods....
Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane
In November 2006, I sat at the back of the Barn Cinema, Dartington, and watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘. It had such an impact on me that by the time it ended, I had decided that I couldn’t just leave...
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.