Vermont has Developed America’s Most Comprehensive Food Plan
Everything Is at Stake, Including Steak
The Community Resilience Reader: Radio Ecoshock interview
NOTE: Daniel’s interview begins at 4:12 mins “Resilience” is a key word for a spectrum starting with collapseniks all the way to big city Mayors and regional planners. But what is it? Has anybody thought this through? Enter The...
BFM Podcast with Richard Heinberg: There’s No App for That
In a manifesto released back in August, Richard Heinberg explains why technology, which is widely heralded as our saviour, is not the secret sauce to solve all our environmental troubles. In this podcast he joins Juliet Jacobs to discuss...
Introduction to The Community Resilience Reader
We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch and published with Island Press. Here is the Introduction chapter, which explains why we’ve...
Puerto Rico is our Future
Obviously, the Puerto Rican people have immediate needs for food, water, fuel, and medical care. We mainland Americans should be doing all we can to make sure that help reaches those in the throes of crisis. But Puerto Ricans—all...
Watching the Hurricane’s Path
It’s an eerie experience. You’ve just heard that another hurricane has formed in the Atlantic, and that it’s headed toward land. You search for NOAA’s National Hurricane Center website so you can see the forecast path for the storm....
Can We Harness Americans’ Retirement Savings to Create Local Sustainable Economies?
What would it take for you to pull your retirement savings out of Wall Street and invest it in things that enrich your local community? Could you invest your IRA or 401(k) in, say, a local farm, solar cooperative,...
Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
While there is now widespread understanding that extreme income and wealth inequality is growing and has negative impacts on society, most proposed solutions fail to address deeper systemic drivers. If we misdiagnose an illness, we are likely to prescribe...
On a Finite Planet Nothing Grows Forever
Richard Heinberg joins Juliet Jacobs at BFM radio to discuss realistic avenues for transitioning to renewable energy, the environmental implications of economic growth, and how we can build more resiliency into the sustainability movement.
Powering Down the Future
What will happen once our fossil fuel inheritance is spent and are we doing enough to develop a replacement energy infrastructure?