Rebuilding the Foodshed: Fields of ENERGY
Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing material from Chapter 4 (Energy) of the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". This is a heck of a chapter, one that...
Tar Sands Is Worse Than You Can Imagine: Incredible Images You Have to See
Post Carbon Institute and Alternet have partnered to shed a powerful light on the true costs of our addiction to fossil fuels, starting with the Alberta tar sands . Every powerful photo is linked to three meaningful actions that you can take...
Securing The Foodshed
Credit: Seachange Radio | Download There is little disagreement that urban farming translates into increased access to local, sustainable, and healthy food, and that this is a very good thing. But how is it done? What are the success stories of urban...
Six resilience “aha!” moments
Usually when I go to events I tend to be the ‘resilience guy’, or one of a handful of people who work with and think about resilience who tend to gather at the back of other events and bemoan...
Colorado River, Meet the Sea
A withered tree speaks of an earlier time in this expanse of the once fertile delta. Photo by Erik Rochner/National Geographic Walking the mudflats of the Colorado River Delta in northwestern Mexico, my feet touch silt and sediment that...
There’s Only One Real Option for Averting Economic and Ecological Ruin — So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
The following excerpt is reprinted from the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, published by Post Carbon Institute and Watershed Media, in collaboration with the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Energy conservation is our best strategy...
Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?
It was certainly joyful to see marriage equality being considered by our top judicial body. In some ways, however, the most depressing spectacle of the week was watching Democratic leaders decide that, in 2013, it was finally safe to...
The Accidental Wetland in the Colorado Delta
Wellton-Mohawk Canal Seen here at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Wellton-Mohawk Canal carries drainage water from an Arizona irrigation district sixty miles into the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. There it gives life to an accidental wetland called La Ciénega...
The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. If you want to understand how much energy costs,...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Beijing Syndrome
As the term “China syndrome” has already been taken, I am terming what is happening in the country these days the “Beijing syndrome,” for China’s capital seems to be shaping up as the epicenter of a great upheaval to...