Hughes Brings the Facts and Figures on Canadian Energy
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes provides DeSmog Canada with facts and figures to demystify what’s happening in the energy industry. The article distills Hughes’s report, “Canada’s Energy Outlook,” into ten noteworthy facts. One of the facts is that there’s an...
Hughes Highlights Faulty Assumptions about Pipeline
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes describes the faulty assumptions behind the political and corporate rhetoric surrounding the Trans Mountain pipeline in Alberta, Canada. The pipeline, which transports oil from Western Canada to a terminal in Burrard Inlet on the...
Heinberg on Toxic Knowledge and an Upcoming Film
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will be featured prominently in Once You Know, an upcoming film about how to convert “toxic knowledge” about climate change and societal collapse into the will to take action. Both Heinberg and the...
Heinberg’s Work Influences Davis, California
A group of more than thirty residents of Davis, California, participated in a discussion group based on the online Think Resilience course that features Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg. Group members explored the impacts of various environmental and social crises,...
Hughes Exposes the Financial Mess of Fracking
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes offers insights about the financial shenanigans surrounding the U.S. fracking industry. In the first of an investigative series of articles in DeSmogBlog about the debt crisis in the industry, writer Justin Mikulka interviews Hughes...
McKibben Pushes California Governor on Climate Policies
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times to urge California’s governor, Jerry Brown, to go further in protecting the climate and making the transition to a renewable-energy economy.
Shuman Dives into How Naval Base Affects Local Economy
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman wrote a report about the U.S. Naval base located in the state of Washington on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. The findings of this report are the subject of a Truthout article that is...
Asher Miller Speaks at Corvallis Sustainability Event
Post Carbon Institute Executive Director Asher Miller spoke at the 10th annual Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Fair and Town Hall about creating a resilient community in the face of climate change challenges. From the article: Miller, the Post Carbon Institute...
McKibben Calls out Climate Movement for Failure on Natural Gas
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben describes the climate movement’s biggest failure as the inability to inform the public of the dangers of natural gas. Promotion of natural gas as a “clean” alternative to coal, development of fracking techniques, and...
Sandra Postel on Managing Drought in the US Southwest
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel offers practical ideas for managing the ongoing drought conditions in the southwestern United States. With a clear-eyed analysis of the problem, including less snow pack in the Rocky Mountains, lower flows in the rivers,...