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...

Credit: Carnegie Council | Download ..what brings Bill McKibben to Carnegie Council today is not only the attention he has paid to global warming; it’s what he says is the solution. McKibben believes our best hope lies not in appealing to our...

Credit: Vermont Edition | Download Forget massive, centralized power production – writer Greg Pahl says communities can plan and finance their own local energy sources. Pahl is the author of the new book, Power From The People: How to Organize, Finance, and...

  By now it’s clear that the creators of NBC’s Revolution have little interest in exploring the mechanics of a post-industrial world. A pity as the material is so rich and, I think, timely for Americans who are more...

Australia is betting its future on resource extraction for a growing China, hoping its own economy will expand to support up to twice as many people by mid-century. The folly of this strategy is exposed as China’s manufacturing falters....

The question of what a top-down response to peak oil, climate change and economic contraction, and the regional rolling out of resilience, might look like, has been often discussed since the early days of the Transition movement. There was...