Credit: Carnegie Council | Download ..what brings Bill McKibben to Carnegie Council today is not only the attention he has paid to global warming; it’s what he says is the solution. McKibben believes our best hope lies not in appealing to our...
Credit: Vermont Edition | Download Forget massive, centralized power production – writer Greg Pahl says communities can plan and finance their own local energy sources. Pahl is the author of the new book, Power From The People: How to Organize, Finance, and...
By now it’s clear that the creators of NBC’s Revolution have little interest in exploring the mechanics of a post-industrial world. A pity as the material is so rich and, I think, timely for Americans who are more...
Australia is betting its future on resource extraction for a growing China, hoping its own economy will expand to support up to twice as many people by mid-century. The folly of this strategy is exposed as China’s manufacturing falters....
The question of what a top-down response to peak oil, climate change and economic contraction, and the regional rolling out of resilience, might look like, has been often discussed since the early days of the Transition movement. There was...
It is sometimes useful when confronted with the flood of information we all receive these days to step back to ponder the major forces that currently are shaping our civilization. Although these forces are too varied and complex to...
Every week, PCI’s Tod Brilliant offers an assessment of NBC’s new J.J. Abrams sci-fi drama, REVOLUTION. Why the TV talk at PCI? Two reasons: 1. PCI Population Fellow William Ryerson has spent decades advocating, with great success, the Sabido...
Energy is everything. Without energy literally nothing happens. It’s easy to overlook the role of energy in the economy because we often just look at it as how much we spend on energy as a fraction of total GDP....
Credit: Equal Time | Download Kevin Jones, director of Vermont Law School’s Smart Grid Project, on how the smart grid can help individuals and businesses save electricity and carbon emissions, plus how the smart grid can make it possible to run 70% of cars...
Last week brought the news that this summer the Arctic icecap shrank to an all-time low of roughly half the size it was in 1980. While this is the lowest ever seen since satellite monitoring began 33 years ago,...