The Peak Oil Crisis: The Superstorm
Somewhere in the midst of watching the Weather Channel’s reporting on the approach of Superstorm Sandy, I was struck by the lack of meteorologists saying anything about what was behind the highly unusual phenomenon that was unfolding. Buried in...
Superstorm Sandy Speaks to Preparedness for Climate Disruption
As floodwaters rose in Battery Park, Brooklyn, surged down Long Island’s Montauk Highway, and turned Atlantic City, New Jersey into a saltwater lake, Hurricane Sandy appeared to be a preview of the apocalypse. But for a historic, record-breaking storm, Sandy’s...
Rob Hopkins on The Green Interview
Silver Donald Cameron talks with Rob Hopkins about the Transition movement in this excerpt from the full-length interview. For the full length interview login at The Green Interview.
Local Investment – Michael Shuman
Michael Shuman – Ketnote Address on Local Investment from Robert Russell on Vimeo. Michael Shuman’s Keynote on Local Investment was presented on October 2, 2012 at the Hagerty Center, NMC. Note: Takes a minute to load
Ode to a fallen oak
I was out for a bike ride with my 10 year old last weekend, and on the cycle path, a large oak tree had come down in a recent storm, blocking the whole path. The middle section had been...
President Declares ‘War on Entropy’
Enjoy this satirical look at the politics of energy by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. CDN News, October 25 (Washington, DC) At a hastily organized news conference, president Obama this morning called for a new national effort to restore...
Magic Pudding Economics
Credit: Fuzzy Logic Science Show | Download How long can the world economy keep growing? How close to the limits are we? According to our guest today, we are nearing the end of cheap resources that have powered wealth creation, and it’s...
Gas Bubble Leaking, About to Burst
For the past three or four years media sources in the U.S. trumpeted the “game-changing” new stream of natural gas coming from tight shale deposits produced with the technologies of horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing. So much gas surged from...
A Bolder Clean Water Act for the Next 40 Years
The Connecticut River, New England’s largest, at Holyoke Dam in Massachusetts during the dry summer of 2012. Thanks to the Clean Water Act, many rivers like the Connecticut are cleaner today, but dams and droughts create new challenges to...
Scapegoat-in-Chief: The Race for the Oval Office
The first two U.S. presidential debates have been painful to watch. Both candidates are running on platforms constructed from verbal hallucinations about the nation’s past, present, and future. And the American people are being asked to choose between...