Energy literacy through an astonishing coffee table book
It is hard to imagine a more unlikely vehicle for advancing energy literacy than a finely crafted large format picture book. Energy, after all, is invisible. We see its effects, but never the thing itself. And yet, Energy: Overdevelopment...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Looking at 2013
We are only a few weeks into the New Year and already the shape of the next 11 months is starting to form. To start, the U.S. Department of Energy sees two good years in front of us, with...
Richard Heinberg – Energy and the Delusion of Endless Growth
An interview with Richard Heinberg on PCI’s giant new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. The video takes you through the book page by page. Part 2 here
Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New Mexico
Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Photo by Sandra Postel As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders....
Unchecked Growth Is a Path to Poverty
Endless growth is not possible because of constraints of renewable resources like fresh water, clean air and biodiversity. Also, much of our industrial system depends on nonrenewable resources like oil and various metals and minerals, which are being depleted...
The really, really big picture: There isn’t going to be enough net energy for the economic growth we want
[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest effort at...
US Climate Study: Cities Center of Risk, Opportunity
The US National Climate Assessment, a new draft study by 13 federal agencies under the Dept. of Commerce, warns that climate change is introducing to cities ample societal and business risks, but also economic opportunities. Because extreme weather is expected...
Film review: ‘Chasing Ice’
I hadn’t heard of James Balog, whose work is the subject of ‘Chasing Ice’, until I saw him give a presentation at TED Global in Oxford in 2008. It was in a session after supper, along with Nigeran novelist...
Idle No More rises to defend ancestral lands—and the planet
This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Idle No More Pow-Wow outside the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on January 7. Photo by Steve McCullough. I don’t claim to know exactly what’s going on with #IdleNoMore, the...
Why Is the Economy Shrinking? – Richard Heinberg
Credit: Radio Ecoshock | Download Endless growth is a delusion with consequences…The spiral of climate change, peak energy, and economic crisis, with author Richard Heinberg. Fresh interview on giant new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. Followed by speech...