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...
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...
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....
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...
Download Our guest was Richard Heinberg, author of Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (New Society, 2015). The book is a collection of his essays and addresses, and we spoke with him about a range of topics, including fracking and peak...
Download An extended interview with Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg about his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. View the related Afterburn video series Interview by Greg Moffitt, Legalise Freedom Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20%...
Article by Kurt Cobb, originally published at Resource Insights Last year China reported the slowest economic growth in 24 years, about 7.4 percent. But the true figure may actually be much lower, and the evidence is buried in electricity figures which show...
A review of Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition by Johan Rockström. “Planetary boundaries” research constitutes an important advance in our ability to identify and quantify the components of global overshoot. Permit me to suggest that all...