"Featured blogs" include posts from Post Carbon Institute-published blogs.
Posted by Daniel Lerch, Mon Jul 7 2008, 2:55pmWith gas prices at record highs and summer now in full swing, it's no surprise a recent survey of U.S. consumers found that 66 percent... (read more)
Posted by asher, Fri Jul 4 2008, 1:16pmSo, what do you do when you’re going nowhere? Millions of would-be vacationers are asking themselves this very question as the steep rise... (read more)- Posted by asher, Tue Jul 1 2008, 8:51amSince the summer solstice is now upon us, in this month's Relocalize, we thought to take a quick look at the solar landscape. Where... (read more)
Posted by julian darley, Fri Jun 20 2008, 2:45pmThe peak oil balloon, it may appear, is finally going up. Not only have we seen obvious signs like the highest oil price rise in... (read more)
Posted by Richard Heinberg, Fri Jun 20 2008, 10:00amBecause the US has the world's largest coal reserves, it has sometimes been called "the Saudi Arabia of coal." It is the world's second-largest coal... (read more)- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri Jun 13 2008, 6:09pmResponding to a recent blog post of mine, a reader made this comment: "anybody who thinks that public transport is scalable in the context of the... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri Jun 6 2008, 3:45pmThe last few weeks have been a particularly interesting time to follow reactions to surging oil prices. In addition to the spate of news... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Tue May 20 2008, 11:23amAs gasoline rises past a record $4 per gallon in the United States*, we're hearing more and more about people leaving their cars for public... (read more)
- Posted by Richard Heinberg, Wed May 14 2008, 3:13pmThe airline industry has no future. The same is true for airfreight. No air carrier has a viable plan to make a profit with oil... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri May 9 2008, 4:04pmLast Wednesday John Kaufmann, Jennifer Brost-Sarnecki and I held a session on "Responding to Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty" at the annual American Planning Association... (read more)
- Posted by julian darley, Sat May 3 2008, 7:15pmAs U.S. gasoline prices crest the astronomical price of four dollars a gallon, many Americans are complaining that prices are too high to bear. They... (read more)
- Posted by julian darley, Sat May 3 2008, 7:13pm‘Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’. It looks like the severe food problems long predicted by some agriculture, climate and peak analysts... (read more)
Posted by laurel, Fri May 2 2008, 3:38pmI'm proud of my city this week: an article in our regional newspaper, The Oregonian, boasts that Portland is the first major U.S. metro area... (read more)- Posted by Richard Heinberg, Fri Apr 25 2008, 8:02amThere is a surreal quality to the experience of seeing the unfolding of unpleasant events that one has predicted. Plenty of times over the past... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Thu Apr 24 2008, 8:53amThis year's American Planning Association conference is in Las Vegas next week, and while the theme for 2008 isn't exactly "sustainability", there are a lot... (read more)
- Posted by julian darley, Thu Apr 10 2008, 11:26pmIn a startling and some say brilliant dash of technological ingenuity, major airlines are discussing converting aircraft - which they can no longer afford to... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Tue Apr 1 2008, 2:14pmI'm on the road for another set of presentations for the Post Carbon Cities book -- this time in Ireland courtesy of the Cultivate Centre... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Fri Mar 14 2008, 9:24amWe've had a few minor surprises here at Post Carbon Cities over the last few days. First: The day after the price of oil burst through... (read more)
- Posted by Daniel Lerch, Wed Mar 5 2008, 2:08pm"If I only had a time machine..." Since we started tracking local government responses to peak oil over a year ago, our little map has filled... (read more)
- Posted by Richard Heinberg, Fri Feb 29 2008, 2:26pmAwareness of Peak Oil, Climate Change, impending global economic implosion, topsoil depletion, biodiversity collapse, and the thousand other dire threats crashing down upon us at... (read more)
