Credit: Kunstlercast | Download James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Arthur E. Berman, who is a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; associate editor of the AAPG Bulletin; director of The Association...
WATCH VIDEO The federal government is holding public hearings on the controversial Northern Gateway project, which would ship crude oil from Alberta to a port on the west coast. But David Hughes, President of Global Sustainability, tells BNN why...
Credit: Radio Ecoshock | Download We depend utterly on fossil fuels, especially to grow our food. From natural gas comes the millions of tons of fertilizers. Oil provides herbicides and pesticides. All is planted and harvested with oil power, driven, shipped or...
Credit: VPR | Download When the news broke last week that President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico, many Vermont environmentalists cheered. Among those were author and...
Credit: Majority Report | Download An interview with Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Cheap fuel,the engine that propelled the last 70 years of economic growth is no more. Interview begins at...
Cindy Parker and I, the Post Carbon Institute’s two Health Fellows, have partnered as co-editors with Jeremy Hess at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control, and Howard Frumkin, Dean of the University of Washington School of Public...
Fossil fuels have powered human growth and ingenuity for centuries. Now that we’re reaching the end of cheap and abundant oil and coal supplies, we’re in for an exciting ride. While there’s a real risk that we’ll fall off...