Conversation with Richard Heinberg on the End of Growth as We Know It!
Credit: Heart of a Leader | Download In his latest book is The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg makes a compelling argument that the global economy has reached a fateful turning point. He proposes that we...
Bill McKibben: On May 5, join me in connecting the dots on the climate crisis
Across the planet now we see ever more flooding, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before. But...
Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day
The Mahanadi River in Orissa, India, ebbs to a trickle during the dry season. Photo credit: James P. Blair. Water, I have learned, means different things to different people. To the novelist D. H. Lawrence, water was mysterious. It...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing the Bakken
There is a lot of talk recently that "tight oil" as found in North Dakota’s Bakken and other shales in the Southwest will save America from stagnant global oil production and increasing gasoline prices. The current glut of natural...
Growing Home with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
Credit: Edible Radio Growing Home host Marla Camp, publisher of Edible Austin moderated an on-stage conversation with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson when they came to Austin in December of 2011 to lend their support to Edible Austin’s annual...
On the Edge with Chris Martenson
Max Keiser interviews Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson about his latest article Japan Is Now Another Spinning Plate in the Global Economy Circus.
Fun with Trends
If current population trends continue . . . The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150 it will equal China’s present size. World population will achieve 14 billion by...
Dear Wall Street: I Quit.
News flash: The culture at Goldman Sachs is “toxic and destructive,” and “purely about how can make the most possible money off of .” So says a Greg Smith, who ended 12 years at the Wall...
The peak oil crisis: surging gasoline
With the EU’s debt crisis and the Iranian confrontation relatively quiescent, attention has turned to the incessant increase in U.S. gasoline prices. The Capitol Hill gas station, where at least some members of Congress fill up, is currently selling...
Here are three ingredients. Now form an initiative
I seem to have done rather a lot of talks in schools recently. I did one last week which included showing clips from the film ‘In Transition 2.0’ and talking about all kinds of stories from Transition initiatives around...