Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly
We are, of course, discussing Saudi Arabia, which has been much in the news lately. This essay will review recent events centered therein and probe their significance.
What Natural Disasters Do to Your Mind
Sunday, October 8, 9:30 p.m., Santa Rosa, California. My wife Janet and I are at the home of two longtime friends, watching television and chatting, when we all hear a powerful gust of wind and a weird popping, like...
There Can Be No Genuine Tax Reform Without Addressing Hidden Wealth
Just as Congress begins debate on the Republicans’ “Tax Cut and Jobs Act,” new revelations have emerged about how wealthy elites around the world hide their wealth. The “Paradise Papers” — the result of a leak from the Bermuda-based...
Resource Limitations
How do we know at what level our consumption is sustainable, and when we’re in planetary overshoot? How do we quantify what the planet’s capacity is to meet human demands, and how much of that capacity is renewable, and...
The Water Win-Win: Food and Ecosystems in balance
Sandra Postel‘s new book is Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. It’s about the world water cycle, and about real solutions to the problem of providing water for people and food, and at the same time for nature...
Vermont has Developed America’s Most Comprehensive Food Plan
Everything Is at Stake, Including Steak
An Independent Thinker’s Guide to the Tax Debate
For 40 years, tax cutters in Congress have told us, “we have a tax cut for you.” And each time, they count on us to suspend all judgment. In exchange, we’ve gotten staggering inequality, collapsing public infrastructure, a fraying...
The Community Resilience Reader: Radio Ecoshock interview
NOTE: Daniel’s interview begins at 4:12 mins “Resilience” is a key word for a spectrum starting with collapseniks all the way to big city Mayors and regional planners. But what is it? Has anybody thought this through? Enter The...
Preparing for Floods, Droughts and Water Shortages by Working with, Rather than Against, Nature
As I wound my way up Poudre Canyon in northern Colorado, the river flowed toward...
Team Human Podcast: There’s No App for That, with Richard Heinberg
By Douglas Rushkoff, with Richard Heinberg, originally published by Team Human Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard...