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...
Local Dollars, Local Sense with Michael Shuman
Credit: Writer’s Voices – KRUU | Download Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman joins the show to talk about his latest book Local Dollars, Local Sense.
Kunstler Brings Energy Message To UVM
Credit: VPR | Download Let’s talk about our energy future. We’ve already reached the age of peak oil and fossil fuels are too dangerous for the environment anyway. Gas from shale oil in Canada? Far more pricey to extract than the industry...
China Coal Update
World coal production and consumption data for 2011 are not yet compiled and published, but one key number is in. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that the country’s coal output rose 8.7 percent from 2010 to...
Why not frack?
: In one sense, the analysts who forecast that “peak oil”—i.e., the point at which the rate of global petroleum extraction will begin to decline—would be reached over the last few years were correct. The planet is running short...