Visualize Gasoline
Next time you find yourself in traffic, try this nifty thought exercise. Ignore the cars within your field of vision and imagine instead the contents of their fuel tanks. Visualize gasoline flowing up and down the highway. Let’s assume...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Perspective
While waiting to see how the Iranian nuclear confrontation and the various Eurozone crises sort themselves out, there is time to step back and look at the interaction of the major forces that will shape our future. While the...
Crash Course
Credit: Climate One | Download Financial market volatility and depleting natural resources together present a challenging outlook for investors. How can individuals and communities be more resilient amid growing political and fiscal turmoil throughout the world? How can we impact change? With...
Too Hot Not to Notice?
The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Implications
Last week we talked about the possibility that researchers have found a second and potentially useful and inexpensive way of converting hydrogen into helium accompanied by a release of significant quantities of energy. Many, of course, believe such a...
Rob Hopkins: My town in Transition
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins speaks for the first time in detail about Totnes as a case study, and what, after 6 years, we can draw from the experience of Transition Town Totnes. From TEDX Exeter.
Top 11 FAQs
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. It’s an opportunity to interact with the audience, and to see where my presentation may...
Local Dollars, Local Sense: The Hidden Power of Cooperatives
A group of scholars at the University of Wisconsin recently counted nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States operating at 73,000 locations. The vast majority are consumer cooperatives, with 343 million memberships (many people belong to multiple co-ops, hence...
An Evening with Wes Jackson
On April 5, the David Brower Center welcomed environmental scholar Wes Jackson as he discussed his recent book, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture with Executive Director Amy Tobin. Jackson is the...
Interview with Rob Hopkins on In Transition 2.0
Jonny Gordon-Farleigh from STIR interviews Rob Hopkins To mark the release of In Transition 2.0 — an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations — I spoke...