Green, Not Growing
“Watch out!” Shout that, with real terror, and most of us will respond: first with some variation on the “fight, flight, or freeze” response, and second (hopefully) with a timely effort to avert danger, ameliorate damage, and connect with...
Who do you trust: Mother Nature or Mr. Wizard?
Why we should respect planetary boundaries Just when you thought weird weather and dying oceans might get us all thinking about how to reduce human impact on this little planet we call home, along comes Breakthrough Institute to propose...
Navigating through a Room full of Elephants – Nate Hagens
Post Carbon Board Member Nate Hagens speaking at the ASPO 2012 International Conference. Nate overviews the fundamental flaws in current economic thinking – the elephants in the room. Elephants graphic via shutterstock
END OF GROWTH UPDATE: The sun also sets
Part 2 of 3 of an update to Richard Heinberg’s 2011 book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Read Part 1 Read Part 3 The US blues Surely there’s cheerier news to be...
On Point with Bill McKibben
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/06/15/bill-mckibben”>WBUR Environmental champion Bill McKibben joins us on fracking, pipelines, and Mother Earth now. Image credit: Alex Kingsbury/WBUR
Chris Martenson’s presentation at the Gold & Silver Meeting in Madrid
In this video Chris Martenson, economic analyst, explains why he thinks that the coming 20 years are going to look completely unlike the last 20 years. In his presentation he focuses on the so-called three "Es": Economy, Energy and...
END OF GROWTH UPDATE: Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Part 1 of 3 of an update to Richard Heinberg’s 2011 book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Read Part 2 Read Part 3 In The End of Growth, published in September 2011, I made...
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...