NASA’s twin-satellite mission known as GRACE has helped scientists estimate how much water is being depleted from the world’s major aquifers, but there is great uncertainty about how much water these aquifers hold. Image courtesy of NASA. Imagine if...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Over the last ten years, Nikki Silvestri has been a thought leader in creating social equity for underrepresented...
I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both enlightening...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Chuck Collins is a board member at Post Carbon Institute, and senior scholar at the Institute for Policy...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Ellen Choy is a member of Movement Generation’s staff collective, whose responsibilities includes communications, facilitating workshops and trainings,...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Doria Robinson is the Executive Director of Urban Tilth, based in Richmond, CA. Urban Titlh works to build...
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson interviews Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben. Full Transcript Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity Podcast, I am your host, Chris Martenson. May 2015, was the wettest on record for Texas and...
The Northern Mexican gartnersnake (Thamnophis eques) lives in wetland areas alongside rivers. Over 90 percent of its riverside habitat has disappeared in the last century due to overgrazing, water diversions, wildfires and drought. A proposed diversion of the Gila...
As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we...
Economic theories, though social constructions, can reflect reality to varying degrees. In the face of dire environmental challenges, adopting a realistic theory is key to the survival of global civilization. The neoliberal emphasis on limitless growth and monetary flows,...