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Visual guide to the cost of growth. Review: ENERGY

By Lindsay Curren | December 14, 2012

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute's* latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, speaks volumes beyond its gigantic sized pages about the energy and environmental predicament humanity is immersed in today. But while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reviews Tagged With: conservation, Energy, Energy Economy, peak oil, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, Stars of Peak Oil

Will the Transition movement be the Tea Party’s next target?

By Erik Curren | June 7, 2011

Tea Party activist with sign

Could Rob Hopkins become the US right wing's next Van Jones? Could the Post Carbon Institute become the next ACORN? Thanks to Rob Hopkins for sending around a silly Tea Party video attacking the Transition movement. It features Rob himself along with PCI as part of a United Nations plot to "take away your land." On the one hand, I smiled. On the other, I cringed, because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics, Transition Tagged With: Agenda 21, climate skeptics, conspiracy theories, Koch Industries, plutocracy, Post Carbon Institute, Rob Hopkins, Tea Party

Sustainability? No, resilience.

By Erik Curren | April 1, 2011

Daniel Lerch and Janaia Donaldson

Haven't gotten the Post-Carbon Reader yet? C'mon, you know you'll have to pick it up sooner or later. Where else are you going to find a discussion of almost every area of modern life, from healthcare to community colleges to the county dump, all from the standpoint of peak oil and climate change? And don't forget that it's jam packed with essays by the top writers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: futurism, Peak Moment TV, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg

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

Post Carbon Reader Session

By Lindsay Curren | October 7, 2010

Cover of the new Post Carbon Reader

Sitting in on the Post Carbon Reader session was particularly exciting, just learning about all the thoughtful, learned individuals who contributed to the reader. This session included former Huntington Beach, California councilwoman Debbie Cook, who moderated and spoke briefly on how to create successes in local government (we'll have more from her later). Daniel Lerch, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: ASPO, Chris Martenson, health, peak oil, Post Carbon Institute

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