Armed with naïvete
My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we...
The peak oil crisis: closing out the year
The returns are in and we now know that world price of a barrel of oil averaged $111 in 2011. This was up 14 percent from last year and well above the previous high of $100 set in 2008....
Book Review: The Post Carbon Reader (Daniel Lerch interview)
by Kyle Curtis A primer about everything that’s wrong in the world- and what you can do to fix it. Let’s make this clear from the beginning: The Post Carbon Reader is not an easy read. Indeed, if...
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair
NOTE: this recording is no longer available – View transcript here. Richard Heinberg joins James Howard Kunstler, Nicole Foss, Dmitri Orlov and Noam Chomsky in a panel discussion. The discussion begins after the news bulletin.
Richard Heinberg on the Majority Report
Credit: Majority Report | Download An interview with Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Cheap fuel,the engine that propelled the last 70 years of economic growth is no more. Interview begins at...
The Legal Landscape of Social Enterprise and the Sharing Economy
Janelle Orsi and Jenny Kassan of the Sustainable Economies Law Center present.
Public Health and Medicine in an Age of Energy Scarcity
Cindy Parker and I, the Post Carbon Institute’s two Health Fellows, have partnered as co-editors with Jeremy Hess at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control, and Howard Frumkin, Dean of the University of Washington School of Public...
The End of Cheap Coal
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
World energy policy is gripped by a fallacy — the idea that coal is destined to stay cheap for decades to come. This assumption supports investment in ‘clean-coal’ technology and trumps serious efforts to increase energy conservation and develop...
Neuroscience, Happiness, and Balancing Self v. Social Interest
Peter Whybrow – PopTech 2008 from PopTech on Vimeo. Leading neuropsychiatrist Peter Whybrow is the author of American Mania: When More Is Not Enough, a neurobiological look at the instinctual and social behaviors that balance a market economy. He...
Economy Sandwich
Explore the new economy with the Sustainable Economies Law Center! How are people putting the lively back in livelihood? Sharing, cooperation, DIY, and the local economy are all wonderful, but they operate in some interesting legal grey areas. Learn...