Modernity bites
James Howard Kunstler Nov 28, 2012
There is surely a correspondence between an exhausted culture and a populace devolved so far into mental dullness that it can't recognize its predicament. We don't seem to … >>
A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade.
Yes, the most effective way to slow climate change is to shrink the economy. That statement is inconvenient as hell, but it’s true.
The real trade-off, the real choice we face, is not between climate protection on one hand and economic growth on the other.
What we really need is to invest our capital (both financial and sweat) in community-owned, distributed, and small-scale renewable energy. Why? Because we must fundamentally remake the energy economy as if nature, people, and the future actually mattered.
You might have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet with emails of late, but off email our movement is anything but quiet -- and things are about to get a whole lot louder.
One hard truth: The era of cheap oil is over. Even the recent glut of US oil and gas was driven by high prices, which gave industry the incentive to use expensive, risky drilling technology.
There is surely a correspondence between an exhausted culture and a populace devolved so far into mental dullness that it can't recognize its predicament. We don't seem to … >>
There is a growing disconnect between forecasts of prodigious amounts of oil coming out of the Middle East in coming decades and what is likely to happen in the region. … >>
The Cienega de Santa Clara is an area of Delta wetlands sustained by agricultural drainage crossing into Mexico from the United States. The … >>
A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled … >>
In his November 14 press conference president Obama made a few brief comments about global warming: “There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change … >>
Good news, folks. According to our friends at the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States will once again be the world's top oil producing nation by 2020. In … >>
PCI's Community Resilience Guide Power From the People was … >>
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr was one of the Herores of the … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was interviewed about his … >>
The influential founder of the Transition Towns movement … >>
Silver Donald Cameron talks with Rob Hopkins about the … >>
Michael Shuman's Keynote on Local Investment was presented … >>