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
This piece is part of Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater, a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures. A spontaneous,...
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...
Ask Bill McKibben Anything: 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 and grandchildren for a worst-case scenario?".
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...