A recent article highlights the vital role forward-looking think tanks are playing in these times of economic turmoil. Though written for a European audience, it’s directly relevant to the situation anywhere on the globe. The author cites Post Carbon...
Post Carbon Fellow and President of the Population Media Centre is regularly on the road as part of his work. Over the next months Bill will be providing us with regular travel notes and insight into his experiences. Travel...
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...
Bill Ryerson wrote this commentary in response to Fighting Climate Change with Family Planning, an article published at Sierra Club Magazine dealing with the deleterious effects of rapid population growth and proposing five ways to achieve a global population...
Darell Duppa, a late nineteenth century pioneer of the American Southwest, may barely warrant a historical footnote, but he left one memorable legacy: he named the capital city of the state of Arizona. With a classical education and five languages...
Post Carbon Adviser Richard Gilbert’s suggestions for improving transit systems in Toronto were published in The Star. From the article: If I were Toronto’s Transit TSAR (Transit Supremo having All Responsibility), with no commissioners or councillors to worry about...
A group of farmers in northwest Texas began 2012 under circumstances their forbearers could scarcely imagine: they faced a limit on the amount of groundwater they could pump from their own wells on their own property. The new rule...
By Justin Richie, The Tyee Last December, after more than 40 years teaching at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia, Bill Rees gave his last lecture as a full-time professor. As...
Outside In with Michael Shuman and Stephanie Mills from Robert Russell on Vimeo. Stephanie Mills returns with another of her colleagues from the Post Carbon Institute, Michael Shuman. Shuman is author of a number of books on developing local...