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Rebuilding the Foodshed: Foreword

Rebuilding the Foodshed by Philip Ackerman-Leist is the latest in Post Carbon Institute’s series of Community Resilience Guides published by Chelsea Green. The book is currently available at a special Friends of PCI discount. To take advantage buy here...

Richard Heinberg on Political Analysis

Credit: Progressive Radio | Download Tonight on Political Analysis, author, eco-activist and senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) Richard Heinberg joins Sandy LeonVest to talk about, among other things, PCI’s new book, “Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.”...

The Perils of Ignoring the Water-Energy Nexus

As we pump gasoline into our automobiles, we watch the register ring up dollars, but we don’t see the water cost: some 13 gallons for every gallon of fuel. It’s one of the most inconvenient truths of modern times that...

Energy literacy through an astonishing coffee table book

It is hard to imagine a more unlikely vehicle for advancing energy literacy than a finely crafted large format picture book. Energy, after all, is invisible. We see its effects, but never the thing itself. And yet, Energy: Overdevelopment...

Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New Mexico

Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Photo by Sandra Postel As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders....

Film review: ‘Chasing Ice’

I hadn’t heard of James Balog, whose work is the subject of ‘Chasing Ice’, until I saw him give a presentation at TED Global in Oxford in 2008. It was in a session after supper, along with Nigeran novelist...

Why Is the Economy Shrinking? – Richard Heinberg

Credit: Radio Ecoshock | Download Endless growth is a delusion with consequences…The spiral of climate change, peak energy, and economic crisis, with author Richard Heinberg. Fresh interview on giant new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. Followed by speech...

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Year Ahead

Tom Whipple

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...