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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!

Richard Heinberg

  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...