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The Peak Oil Crisis: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s ‘Snake Oil’ 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
By Tom Whipple, posted Aug 22, 2013: Richard Heinberg has been following and writing about peak oil for a long time. In the last decade, he has published 10 books on peak oil and related resource dep...
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet 19 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
By Bill McKibben, posted Aug 19, 2013: The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality -- it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more vi...
A Foodshed View of Resilience 13 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
By Philip Ackerman-Leist, posted Aug 13, 2013: “Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to anot...
Whither Shale Oil?—Interview with David Hughes 12 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
By Steve Andrews, posted Aug 12, 2013: Interview by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Q: Andrews--Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energydialogue by storm. When d...
Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Are Under Assault by Oil and Gas Drilling 9 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
By Gloria Flora, posted Aug 9, 2013: You can take action to ban fracking on federal lands here. Photo Credit: Ecoflight As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-...
Small-scale Irrigation Boosts Incomes and Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa 9 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
By Sandra Postel, posted Aug 9, 2013: A solar-powered drip irrigation system waters vegetable crops in northern Benin. Photo by Jennifer A. Burney For millions of poor farm families in sub-Sahara...
Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff 26 Jul 2013 | 08:39 pm
By Rob Hopkins, posted Jul 26, 2013: You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there...
Profiles in Sharing: Janelle Orsi - The Sharing Economy Lawyer 24 Jul 2013 | 03:26 pm
By Cat Johnson, posted Jul 24, 2013: By Cat Johnson, Shareable Janelle Orsi. Photo by Chris Tittle I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Oakland, just up the block from a HUB coworking space and ...
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative 24 Jul 2013 | 02:23 pm
By Richard Heinberg, posted Jul 24, 2013: You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more. If we ...
Water Stress Threatens Future Energy Production 22 Jul 2013 | 02:33 pm
By Sandra Postel, posted Jul 22, 2013: Riverbend Steam Station, a coal-fired power plant on North Carolina’s Catawba River. Nationwide, thermoelectric power production requires more than 200 billi...
