Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Read more interviews. Taj James is the Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Center, based in Oakland, CA. MSC...
If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will achieve savings in the ongoing energy expenditures needed for economic production. We will be rewarded with a quality of life that is acceptable—and, perhaps, preferable to our current one...
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot – Oh Christ! That ever this should be. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge El Niño has...
Earlier this month, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, released its annual risk assessment, which looks across the spectrum of threats to society and ranks them. This year, it declared water crises to be the top global risk to...
During low-flow conditions, a pilot project will leave more water in this reach of Willow Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River near Granby, Colorado, to benefit habitat and fish populations. Photo: Geoff Elliott/Grand Environmental Services. By Sandra Postel...
Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Trathen Heckman is the founding executive director of Daily Acts, which transforms homes and communities into vibrant centers...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Vicki Robin is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money...
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released this week. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed book....
Deep into the California drought, possibly the worst in 1200 years, water from a property in Los Angeles flows down a residential street. Photo: Sandra Postel Denial, it’s been said, is not just a river in Egypt. It runs,...