Bill Rees: Why We’re in Denial
from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees discusses cultural denial and how we could start adapting to our ecological challenges through a new cultural narrative. From the recent...
Fire, Drought, and Water Stress
Smoke is in the air here in the middle Rio Grande Valley, as winds push charred particulates northeast from the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The Whitewater-Baldy blaze has now burned more than 350 square miles of the Gila...
On Fighting Climate Change with Family Planning
Bill Ryerson wrote this commentary in response to Fighting Climate Change with Family Planning, an article published at Sierra Club Magazine dealing with the deleterious effects of rapid population growth and proposing five ways to achieve a global population...
The Planet Wreckers
Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes — But So Is the Planet It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial. First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki’s face plastered across it: “I Still...
Local Dollars, Local Sense – Boulder Bookstore presentation
Michael Shuman talks about his book Local Dollars, Local Sense. Recorded at the Boulder Bookstore on February 22, 2012.
Debbie Cook Debunks Energy Shill
An interview with PCI Board Member and energy consultant Debbie Cook, and energy company executive Buck Johns.
The Endangered Waters Beneath Our Feet
Fish-shaped Long Island, New York, is underlain by aquifers that are its sole source of drinking water. Photo courtesy of NASA/Wikimedia Commons. Last week, the conservation organization American Rivers released its annual list of the nation’s most-endangered rivers. I...
Rethinking Economic Growth
PCI Fellow Josh Farley explains the concepts and implcations of money as debt, GDP as a measure of the economy, and economic degrowth. Recorded at the 2012 Montreal Degrowth conference for The Extraenvironmentalist.
Equality and Inequality in a Shrinking Economy–Strategies and Consequences – Video Chat
Browser does not support iframes! Political economist, activist and writer Gar Alperovitz and Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg discuss ‘Equality and Inequality in a Shrinking Economy–Strategies and Consequences’. This is a recording of video chat recorded May 22,...
The Little Grocery That Could
What happens next in the economy – the nation’s, the state’s, and Seattle’s – no longer lies in the hands of Capitol Hill politicians, the Federal Reserve, or even the boards of companies like Microsoft and Starbucks. It depends on...