Richard Heinberg NPR (WYPR Baltimore)
Credit: WYPR | Download In this in-depth interview, Richard Heinberg discusses the roots of the global economic slowdown and the "new normal" we can expect moving forward. Midday is WYPR’s daily public affairs program heard from noon-2pm, Monday-Friday. Hosted by longtime Baltimore...
INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength
PCI Local Economies Fellow Michael Shuman joins PCI Economy & Preparedness Fellow Chris Martenson to discuss how you can prepare yourself, your family and your community to weather turbulent economic times. This is a recording of video chat recorded...
Dealing with energy shock in Japan
Credit: Radio Ecoshock | Download We have a new report from Warren Karlenzig, who just toured Japan with a United Nations group. As the founder of Common Current, Warren advises city and national governments on sustainability. He’s a Fellow of the Post...
A Century of Writing About Climate Change
Credit: KERA – Think | Download How is our accelerating use of the planet’s resources permanently altering the environment? Kris Boyd talks with acclaimed environmental writer Bill McKibben, editor of “The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change” (Penguin,...
Bill McKibben on Keystone, Congress, and Big-Oil Money
Author/activist Bill McKibben says environmentalists cannot ease up after their recent victory in the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. In a conversation with Yale Environment 360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, he talks about what he’s learned about the power...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Our Natural Gas Glut
With global warming driving down the demand for natural gas as a home heating fuel and natural gas drillers producing record amounts, an oversupply situation has developed quickly. Stocks of natural gas are rising. As a result natural gas...
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...