In 2023, Post Carbon Institute marked its 20th anniversary. We’ve had some wins, some losses, and we’ve learned a lot of lessons. Paradoxically, the world has changed too much and too little over that same period of time. This...
May 12, 2021 There’s an insidious feature of modern life: as the economy and technology continue to grow, attention becomes ever more scarce. Nowadays footage from Russian dash cams and the latest “wisdom” issued on social media by people...
This article, the second in a series, is based on the author’s forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. You can read the first article in the series here. For information about the book and how to...
REGISTER NOW! Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival A Forum with RICHARD HEINBERG, author and Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute Date and Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time On Wednesday evening...
REGISTER NOW! Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival A Forum with RICHARD HEINBERG, author and Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute Date and Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time On Wednesday evening...
[Editor’s note: Last year Alberta Premier Jason Kenney established a $30-million-per-year, publicly funded “war room” to promote the oil and gas industry and slam those who don’t. Hired to run it was Tom Olsen, a veteran right-wing politico and losing candidate...
Let’s create a living open source project—where collective intelligence informs near and intermediate term mitigation, one that helps us as a culture navigate the narrow path between fantasy and doom. When we see gasoline this summer under $1 per...
The COVID-19 pandemic offers intriguing insights into how networked our modern world has become, and how we’ve traded resilience for economic efficiency. Case in point: someone gets sick in China in December of 2019, and by March of 2020...
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By Chuck Collins, Sarah Byrnes This morning in Boston, seven people sat down in front of construction equipment, blocking construction of a fracked gas pipeline coming into the heart of the city. This evening, the Jamaica Plain Time Exchange...