Peak oil and climate change dictate that we get society off fossil fuels, fast. But wind, solar, biofuels, hydropower each have major drawbacks compared to the versatility, ubiquity, and energy content of fossil fuels. It’s hard to see how...
Post Carbon Institute Fellow Warren Karlenzig delivers at TEDx. Social media and collaborative technologies–layered with smart systems combining geo-location data with human experience–will make cities the driving sustainability force in a dawning planetary era. Cities will anticipate new risks...
Rob Hopkins recorded this speech to inspire the 5th edition of the World Student Environmental Summit in Lausanne.
See http://www.2012.biochar.us.com for more information about the 2012 US Biochar Conference. Gloria Flora’s Presentation
Check out this short interview with Michael followed by short 12 ways communities can become economically resilient. Recorded at the FL Small Farms and Alternative Enterprise Conference 2012. View the Prezi More about Local Dollars, Local Sense
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By Ellie Winninghoff PCI Board Member Jason Bradford leads the farmland management program at Farmland LP. While farmland is a hot alternative vehicle among institutional investors like Harvard University and TIAA-Cref, some wonder how alternative an investment it really...
It is quite possible that by the year 2100 human life will have become extinct or will be confined to a few residential areas that have escaped the devastating effects of nuclear holocaust or global warming. —Brian Barry1 Evolution...
“Watch out!” Shout that, with real terror, and most of us will respond: first with some variation on the “fight, flight, or freeze” response, and second (hopefully) with a timely effort to avert danger, ameliorate damage, and connect with...
Michael Shuman talks about his book Local Dollars, Local Sense. Recorded at the Boulder Bookstore on February 22, 2012.
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.