Every week, PCI’s Tod Brilliant will be offering 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,...
This is one of a series of posts from Rob Hopkins’ blog Transition Culture. The theme for today was work. The first plenary session featured four speakers. The first, Gilbert Rist from Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes in Geneva,...
It has now been more than 33 years since Jimmy Carter’s famous "malaise’ speech given in July 1979. As this speech is often cited as the beginning of the end for the Carter Presidency, no politician in the intervening...
Credit: ABC Brisbane | Download If you’ve got a mortgage, then you’re probably hoping that the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates again before Christmas. But for those of you who are self-funded retirees, any interest rate cut means a drop in...
Greetings from Kigali, Rwanda. I am just finishing a week of meetings in Burundi and Rwanda regarding new projects Population Media Center is planning. I was accompanied on the visit to Burundi by Theo Nzeyimana, PMC’s Rwandese producer. ...
Credit: Midday: ABC Classic FM | Download Margaret Throsby interviews Richard about his life and work, and invites him to select the music. Violin image via shutterstock
A recent article highlights the vital role forward-looking think tanks are playing in these times of economic turmoil. Though written for a European audience, it’s directly relevant to the situation anywhere on the globe. The author cites Post Carbon...
Post Carbon Fellow and President of the Population Media Centre is regularly on the road as part of his work. Over the next months Bill will be providing us with regular travel notes and insight into his experiences. Travel...
It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the country – and possibly the world – yet has: a...
This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme...