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Energy literacy is the education we need

By Lindsay Curren | September 8, 2011

Future School

Fans of late night television may remember a prognosticating segment from the Conan O'Brien Show where Conan and sidekick Andy Richter would "take a look into the future...all the way to the year 2000!" Dimming the lights, donning black capes and using flashlights beamed upward onto their faces to look "futuristic," Conan and Andy made goofball predictions such as, "Twinkies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: economy, education, energy policy, peak oil

Unemployed? Davos worries you’ll riot

By Erik Curren | January 28, 2011

AFL-CIO demonstration

Do global elites gathered in Davos this week fear that armies of unemployed workers, especially youth, could turn into angry mobs that destabilize the world's industrialized nations? A new video suggests that the rich and comfortable are concerned about the jobless and desperate. "The West isn't Working: The CNBC Debate," presented at the beginning of a panel on global … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy, Video Tagged With: CNBC, Davos, education, plutocracy, unemployment

Post carbon university

By Erik Curren | November 1, 2010

The Post Carbon Reader

BOOK REVIEW The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises Edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch Watershed Media, 523 pp, $21.95 When I grew up in the Windy City in the seventies and eighties, the University of Chicago had the reputation as a school for grinds. After high school, I did not go there, but opted instead for a liberal arts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Bill McKibben, education, healthcare, Nov 2010, peak oil, Post Carbon Institute

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