Obama Versus Physics
Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a country as big as the United States, public opinion moves in slow currents. Since change by definition requires going...
A vision for 2013
Welcome back to Transition Culture for 2013. It is a year fraught with dangers yet also rich with possibilities. I hope that Transition Network, and this blog, and all the other resources out there for people wanting to embrace these possibilities...
Peak Oil: Tom Whipple from ASPO USA
Tom Whipple of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) discusses global oil production and peak oil. Peak Oil is explained as the all-time maximum rate at which the world’s oil is being produced. This...
Chris Martenson Keynote, 4th Annual Biophysical Economics Conference
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson talks about his work in "challenging beliefs". Recorded in October 2012.
Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth
Originally posted at PeakProsperity At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources. The global population is more than 7 billion now and...
Fiscal Cliff: Nowhere to go But Down
Most folks in Washington and on Wall Street are desperate to avoid the fiscal cliff. That’s because the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would take effect if we go over the edge would mean an end to...
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...