With all the efforts going into urban climate action plans and carbon reduction, will many cities and suburbs be caught unprepared for other sustainability crises, such as acute water or energy shortages?
It's an uncomfortable idea, but one that cannot be ignored: The "normal" late-20th century economy of seemingly endless growth actually emerged from an aberrant set of conditions that cannot be perpetuated...
It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the politics of climate legislation to hear Senator Lindsey Graham pronounce, “the cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead.”
The campaign against climate science has been enormously clever, and enormously effective. It’s worth trying to understand how they’ve done it. The best analogy, I think, is to the O.J. Simpson trial...
I’d like to see community leaders ask people to consider themselves as contributors rather than consumers. The whole consumer identity should become passé...
Last post I covered some guiding principles for urban resilience planning in the face of climate change and diminishing resources (especially fresh water and oil). … >>
[Excerpt] When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we … >>
Last week the stock markets soared when it was announced that the U.S. had lost only 36,000 jobs in February - less than Wall Street economists were predicting. In the … >>
One reason I like to host seminars at the Center for Ecoliteracy is that you never know who is going to show up. Last August, one of the 80 people who participated in our … >>
sunk cost [suhngk kawst]: Cost already incurred which cannot be recovered regardless of future events. It's almost too easy to vilify corporations. What, with all the … >>
The following is the prepared text for a talk I gave in the city hall of Eugene Oregon the evening of Feb. 17, 2010. It was organized by two Lane County commissioners and … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman was quoted in this piece … >>
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg's work on coal … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben's op-ed 'The OJ Tactic' … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson, presented to the All … >>
Post carbon Fellow Erika Allen, Chicago Projects Manager … >>
Are current corporate-dominated international institutions … >>
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