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...]
Economics has failed us, but there is life after growth!
Meet Richard Heinberg, the most mild mannered thrasher you'll ever encounter. Heinberg, the geeky brains behind the energy and culture think tank Post Carbon Institute, has toiled away over the past few decades crunching the numbers on energy depletion. In the process, he has come to some some pretty grim conclusions. It's a wonder, then, that the guy seems so peppy. … [Read more...]
Will the Transition movement be the Tea Party’s next target?
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...]
Sustainability? No, resilience.
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...]
Top 10 peak oil books of 2010
Having read enough books with Hubbert curves and charts of barrels-per-day to last us until the second Bristol Palin administration, we're now into powerful stories that explore peak oil through suspense, romance and humanity. But so you won't feel guilty having so much fun at the expense of the whole premise of industrial civilization, we've thrown in some more fact-y tomes … [Read more...]