Ask Bill McKibben Anything: What do you say to skeptics of climate change?
A reader asks Bill McKibben: What do you say to skeptics of climate change? See answers from Bill to other questions including – "Is it too late to adequately prevent climate change?", and "How would you prepare your children...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 3 – Scenarios for simplification: the options for managerial elites
The following is Part 3 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 4, Part 5 Setting aside...
No place sacred: ENERGY (review)
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute’s latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Deep in the Heart of Texas
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil recently held its annual conference down in Austin, Texas. The venue for the meeting was right across the street from the University of Texas football stadium which is as close to...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 2: War and peace in a shrinking economy
The following is Part 2 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 3, Part 4, Part 5 Will increasing...
Against growth: A conversation with economist Joshua Farley
This is an exceprt. The full interview appears at Eurozine. Almantas Samalavicius: The concept of ecological economics differs fundamentally from that one of neoclassical economics. However, it is the latter that seems to dominate globally, despite its obvious failings...
Paul Gilding on the Great Disruption
Credit: Radio National: Sunday Extra | Download Paul Gilding is calling for a complete reset on the climate debate, saying we will not get a global agreement on climate change and it’s a waste of time to think we ever will. And...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 1 – The 21st century landscape of conflict
Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Many of the readers of postcarbon.org, Energy Bulletin, and now Resilience.org, have come to share a certain view of the world. It’s probably fair to say that, as a group, we see...
Fossil Food & Agriculture – Richard Heinberg Q&A
While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian’s...
Modernity bites
There is surely a correspondence between an exhausted culture and a populace devolved so far into mental dullness that it can’t recognize its predicament. We don’t seem to get how much the industrial production spree of the past 200...