10 Things We’re Grateful For
When you try to share the looming challenges with friends and family, do they sometimes say: “Enough about the problems, what are you going to do about it?” In the in the spirit of Thanksgiving and our 10th...
Top 10 Reader’s Favorites – Resilience and Energy Bulletin
One of the things that sets the Resilience.org/EnergyBulletin community apart is our passionate commitment and deep involvement. So what better way to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this community (and Post Carbon Institute) than by sharing the favorite reads...
Top 10 Hits – Resilience and Energy Bulletin
Ever wondered which articles have been accessed the most at Resilience.org and Energy Bulletin? Here’s the run down…What have been some of your favorites? Please let us know in the comments section at the bottom. Resilience.org Top 10...
Stronger Efforts Needed to Reduce Nitrate Pollution in Mississippi River Basin
Despite growing concern over the last two decades about the low-oxygen “dead zone” that emerges each summer in the fisheries-rich Gulf of Mexico, the nitrate pollution at the root of the problem continues to rise. That’s the upshot of...
Bill McKibben interview – time for the climate movement to get on the front foot
Interview by Adam Ramsey, Open Democracy Leading American climate change activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibbon calls for environmentalists to get on the front foot ahead of his European speaker tour. Journalist and author Bill McKibben is...
New Mexicans Call for Conservation over River Diversions
The Gila River in southwestern New Mexico is an ecological gem, but is threatened by a proposed diversion. Photo by Sandra Postel The western United States was settled with the help of big dams and river diversions that delivered...
A Dam, Dying Fish, and a Montana Farmer’s Lifelong Quest to Right a Wrong
In the pantheon of river conservationists, few may leave a legacy larger than that of Roger Muggli, a third-generation farmer in eastern Montana. Thanks to his decades of efforts to help fish safely pass 12 Mile Dam, an irrigation...
The Puerto Rico Report
I spent August 27 and 28 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the invitation of María A. Juncos Gautier, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Studies of the Universidad Metropolitana, with strong support from Dr. Carlos Padín, Chancellor...
Business vs. Business : The Real Climate Battle Begins
This is where it gets really interesting. Since I first engaged in the climate debate in the late 1980’s it’s all been fairly slow and predictable. Environmentalists argued for action, big business resisted and government acted as the referee,...
What Van Gogh can teach us about education and learning
While many people’s summer reading might have consisted of the new Dan Brown book or perhaps the JK Rowling book that wasn’t by her and then was, mine focused on Vincent Van Gogh. As we focus for this month’s...