Ramanbhai Parmar, a wheat and banana farmer in India’s dry state of Gujarat, was the first to sell electricity back to the power grid from the solar panels that drive his water pump. Photo credit: CCAFS/Prashanth Vishwanathan It’s hard...
On Earth Day Eve 2015, Nate Hagens presented Turning 21 in the Anthropocene: An Invitation for Young People to Participate in their Future at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dr. Hagens’ talk was co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for...
This could be big. Religious and ethical impulses are powerful shapers of human behavior. That’s why, here in the US, corporate leaders long ago found ways to use religion to promote the notions that extreme economic inequality is perfectly...
Richard Heinberg joins Diane Horn, host of the Sustainability Segment, Mind Over Matters to talk about the themes of his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Download Originally broadcast on KEXP Seattle. Use Discount Code PCI2015...
The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs....
An aerial view of the Prairie Pothole Region, near Wing, North Dakota. A new U.S. clean water rule protects prairie potholes and other freshwater ecosystems. Credit: Jim Ringelman, Ducks Unlimited/courtesy US Department of Agriculture. It took nearly a decade,...
Analyst David Hughes offers another challenge to the province’s nascent industry. By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee. A new report on liquefied natural gas prospects for British Columbia challenges government claims that gas exports will lower greenhouse gas emissions, or...
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels By Richard Heinberg 205 pp. New Society Publishers – Apr. 2015. $18.95. Review by Frank Kaminski, originally published at Mud City Press Richard Heinberg’s studies into energy resources began with one of the grand,...
On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading: most readers, when they see the word subsidy, probably tend to think of tax breaks...
As someone concerned about inequality, what would it take for you to support the Olympics in Boston in 2024?” That is the question that journalist Neil Swidey asked me for his article that appears today in the...