Will We have Enough Water? Adapting to a Warming, Water-Stressed World
Sandra Postel recently gave a talk on ‘Will We have Enough Water? Adapting to a Warming, Water-Stressed World’ for the Moos Family Speaker Series on Water Resources. Watch the video here, Sandra’s talk begins at 4:20. Excerpt from A...
Rebuilding the Foodshed: Foreword
Rebuilding the Foodshed by Philip Ackerman-Leist is the latest in Post Carbon Institute’s series of Community Resilience Guides published by Chelsea Green. The book is currently available at a special Friends of PCI discount. To take advantage buy here...
How tough is your skin?
Monbiot, Mann, McKibben, various Transitioners and others on what to do if your Transition initiative comes under attack As Transition groups deepen their work and begin to have a tangible impact, it is, perhaps, inevitable that those who...
Nate Hagens: Things are not going to be as easy over the next 40 years
Recently Karen Rybold-Chin interviewed Nate Hagens, former editor of The Oil Drum and former Lehman Brothers vice president, questioning him about a future economy without growth and an environment suffering climate change. Nate Hagens asks whether ultimately – contrary...
Richard Heinberg on Political Analysis
Credit: Progressive Radio | Download Tonight on Political Analysis, author, eco-activist and senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) Richard Heinberg joins Sandy LeonVest to talk about, among other things, PCI’s new book, “Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.”...
The Perils of Ignoring the Water-Energy Nexus
As we pump gasoline into our automobiles, we watch the register ring up dollars, but we don’t see the water cost: some 13 gallons for every gallon of fuel. It’s one of the most inconvenient truths of modern times that...
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....