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...
Obama, Romney avoid hard truths about energy
One hard truth: The era of cheap oil is over. Even the recent glut of US oil and gas was driven by high prices, which gave industry the incentive to use expensive, risky drilling technology. By Richard Heinberg and...
Dangerous Ideas: The End of Growth
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg presents at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Sydney Opera House. Recorded September 2012.
We cannot avoid the global crisis… but we can deal with it
The following is a speech by Paul Gilding delivered to the AGM of World Business Council for Sustainable Development Seoul, South Korea on October 31st, 2012. G’day. It’s great to be here with you, to help open this meeting and set...
Sandy forces climate change on US election despite fossil fuel lobby
Here’s a sentence I wish I hadn’t written – it rolled out of my Macbook in May, part of an article for Rolling Stone that quickly went viral: "Say something so big finally happens (a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought...