IT’S HERE! ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Introducing our most ambitious publishing effort to date: ENERGY: Overdevelopment & the Delusion of Endless Growth. A partnership between the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Post Carbon Institute, this 336-page coffee table book is an unprecedented, visually-rich exploration of...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Descent Into Chaos
There is a growing disconnect between forecasts of prodigious amounts of oil coming out of the Middle East in coming decades and what is likely to happen in the region. The Middle East today is a patchwork of geographical...
A Historic Binational Agreement Gives New Life to the Colorado River Delta
The Cienega de Santa Clara is an area of Delta wetlands sustained by agricultural drainage crossing into Mexico from the United States. The beautiful Cienega is a reminder of what the larger Delta used to be. Photo credit: Pronatura...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Alternative Futures
A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures, starts with...
Rob Hopkins: Sustainability and Community
Credit: BBC Radio 4: Four Thought | Download The influential founder of the Transition Towns movement Rob Hopkins argues for a new approach to energy, society and our surroundings – with the help of a bottle of beer and a ten pound...
You Can’t Say That!
In his November 14 press conference president Obama made a few brief comments about global warming: “There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices...
Some Serious Fracking Exuberance in Gay Paris
Good news, folks. According to our friends at the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States will once again be the world’s top oil producing nation by 2020. In your face Russia and Saudi Arabia! Not only that, but...
Don’t Just Divest, Re-Invest
It’s hard to know how much of a difference Hurricane Sandy made in the outcome of last week’s election, but many of us were pleased to hear President Obama finally reference climate change in his acceptance speech: "We want...
Book Review: Power from the People
Power from the People by Greg Pahl is yet another release in the “Communitiy Reslience Guide” series. The book focuses on tangible information, which can guide communities, regions, and individuals into a stable future. Pahl first focuses on the...
November is going to be big
Dear friends, You might have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet with emails of late, but off email our movement is anything but quiet — and things are about to get a whole lot louder. So much so, that I...