Grabbing the Colorado From the “People of the River”
Cucapá elder Inocencia-Gonzales speaks about the plight of her people near her town of El Mayor in the Colorado River Delta of northwestern Mexico. Photo credit: Blue Legacy/Oscar Durand This piece is part of Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on...
Because We Must
My son was almost two when when I joined Post Carbon Institute in the Spring of 2008. A lot has changed in his life in the last four and a half years, and at PCI. It’s not an...
Nate Hagens: The End of Growth
Energy Hub, WUD Society and Politics Committee, and Madison Peak Oil Group host energy/finance expert Nate Hagens for a presentation that weaves together economics, anthropology, psychology, finance, trade, energy and human behavior into a coherent story about our human social system. In a...
Don’t fall for the shale boom hype – Chris Martenson Interview: Part 1
We are in the midst of an amazing energy boom, but by sweeping the idea of peak oil under the rug we are ignoring a significant fact: the relationship between hydrocarbon reserves and flow rates are not the same...
More Crop per Drop: Securing Water to Feed 9 Billion
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel speaking at the Quivera Coalition 2012 Conference ‘How to Feed Nine Billion People From the Ground Up: Soil, Seeds, Water, Plants, Livestock, Forests, Organics, and People’.
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 5 – A theory of change for a century of crisis
The following is the final part of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 If...
Grabbing at Solutions: Water for the Hungry First
Drip irrigation, shown here in Niger, can help save water, eventually reducing the pressure that drives water grabs. Photo: Bernard Pollack, Worldwatch Institute. This piece is part of Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater, a special National Geographic News...
Richard Heinberg: “The Quest” For Truth
Credit: Sea Change Radio | Download Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. The New York Times called this follow-up “even better… than the...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 4 – Post-carbon governance
The following is Part 4 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5 Are we...
How do you disruptively innovate a whole economy?
In his book The Great Disruption, Paul Gilding asserts that we are now in a global ecological and economic crisis that will lead to a period of major global economic transformation. This crisis driven change is a great opportunity...