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...
BFM Podcast with Richard Heinberg: There’s No App for That
In a manifesto released back in August, Richard Heinberg explains why technology, which is widely heralded as our saviour, is not the secret sauce to solve all our environmental troubles. In this podcast he joins Juliet Jacobs to discuss...
Introduction to The Community Resilience Reader
We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch and published with Island Press. Here is the Introduction chapter, which explains why we’ve...
Puerto Rico is our Future
Obviously, the Puerto Rican people have immediate needs for food, water, fuel, and medical care. We mainland Americans should be doing all we can to make sure that help reaches those in the throes of crisis. But Puerto Ricans—all...
Energy and Authoritarianism
Could declining world energy result in a turn toward authoritarianism by governments around the world? As we will see, there is no simple answer that applies to all countries. However, pursuing the question leads us on an illuminating journey...
Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins America’s middle class is under assault. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has been in a steady decline since 2005....
Watching the Hurricane’s Path
It’s an eerie experience. You’ve just heard that another hurricane has formed in the Atlantic, and that it’s headed toward land. You search for NOAA’s National Hurricane Center website so you can see the forecast path for the storm....