The following excerpt is reprinted from the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, published by Post Carbon Institute and Watershed Media, in collaboration with the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Energy conservation is our best strategy...

It was certainly joyful to see marriage equality being considered by our top judicial body.  In some ways, however, the most depressing spectacle of the week was watching Democratic leaders decide that, in 2013, it was finally safe to...

Wellton-Mohawk Canal Seen here at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Wellton-Mohawk Canal carries drainage water from an Arizona irrigation district sixty miles into the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. There it gives life to an accidental wetland called La Ciénega...

Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. If you want to understand how much energy costs,...

As the term “China syndrome” has already been taken, I am terming what is happening in the country these days the “Beijing syndrome,” for China’s capital seems to be shaping up as the epicenter of a great upheaval to...

Credit: Earthworms with Jean Ponzi | Download Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Rebuilding the Foodshed – How to Create Local, Sustainable and Secure Food Systems, talks with Jean Ponzi about a number of issues including health and social justice. The book is published...

HELP US EXPOSE BIG OIL’S LIES & QUITE POSSIBLY SAVE THE WORLD. The oil & gas industry is lying to you. And the consequences of these lies affect you and everyone you know. These consequences aren’t esoteric, or limited...

Credit: Businessmatters | Download This week we talk about a movement that’s growing across the globe in response to the impact of how we humans are trashing the planet. Whether it’s our use of petrochemicals or the consequence of some of our...

I can’t imagine it’s easy being a journalist these days, tasked with covering the explosive growth of US shale gas and oil (tight oil) drilling, and the even more explosive and ubiquitous claims that these unconventional resources are going...

If you’re a lazy pessimist, times are good. After all, you don’t have to look far to see evidence that things are tough and poised to get tougher. There’s a growing wealth chasm between the rich and, well, everyone else. Significant changes...