Post Carbon Institute and Alternet have partnered to shed a powerful light on the true costs of our addiction to fossil fuels, starting with the Alberta tar sands . Every powerful photo is linked to three meaningful actions that you can take...
Credit: University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute podcasts | Download Professor Joshua Farley (Vermont University; ODID-ECI Astor Visiting Lecturer) gives a entitled “The Political Economy of Ecosystem Services”.
We are far enough and deep enough into the most heroic monetary and fiscal efforts ever undertaken to finally ask, why aren’t these measures working? Or at least we should be. Oddly, many in DC, on Wall Street, and...
Recently Karen Rybold-Chin interviewed Nate Hagens, former editor of The Oil Drum and former Lehman Brothers vice president, questioning him about a future economy without growth and an environment suffering climate change. Nate Hagens asks whether ultimately – contrary...
We are only a few weeks into the New Year and already the shape of the next 11 months is starting to form. To start, the U.S. Department of Energy sees two good years in front of us, with...
An interview with Richard Heinberg on PCI’s giant new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. The video takes you through the book page by page. Part 2 here
Endless growth is not possible because of constraints of renewable resources like fresh water, clean air and biodiversity. Also, much of our industrial system depends on nonrenewable resources like oil and various metals and minerals, which are being depleted...
[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest effort at...
There are many forces at work in our world today – climate change, the Arab Spring, population growth, and mass migrations to name a few. Some of these forces may come to impact our lives in the coming year...
Tom Whipple of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) discusses global oil production and peak oil. Peak Oil is explained as the all-time maximum rate at which the world’s oil is being produced. This...