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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...