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The Boiling Pot
The Boiling Pot On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper prices […]
Our Renewable Future
Our Renewable Future Introduction The next few decades will see a profound and all-encompassing energy transformation throughout the world. Whereas society now derives the great majority of its energy from fossil fuels, by the end of the century we will depend primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Two irresistible forces […]
A Personal Appreciation of M. King Hubbert
A Personal Appreciation of M. King Hubbert A recent vacation afforded me the opportunity to read The Oracle of Oil, Mason Inman’s excellent new biography of Marion King Hubbert. I strongly recommend it. But, rather than writing a standard book review (which might cover much of the same ground as this one by Frank Kaminski), I’m inspired instead […]
“We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can”
“We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can” Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, says a truly green transportation system would stop relying on cars and discusses the Tesla Model 3 as a mass-market electric vehicle Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux […]
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we can do it. And the first step is to start with the easy stuff. If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will achieve savings in the ongoing energy […]
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase. Natural gas fracking is the apparent culprit. This finding should be (though I wouldn’t bet on it) the […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 180 KB) As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than […]
Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home
Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home Download as PDF COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition. We all know that the transition away from fossil fuels is key to maintaining a livable […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than the last, and each governmental COP meeting organized […]
Can We Afford the Future?
Can We Afford the Future? Broken road image via shutterstock. Reproduced at Resilience.org with permission. As a child of the 1950s I grew up immersed in a near-universal expectation of progress. Everybody expected a shiny new future; the only thing that might have prevented us from having it was nuclear war, and thankfully that hasn’t happened […]
Richard Heinberg: After the Burn
Richard Heinberg: After the Burn Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS After a two-century-long burning bender, the globe is in for a heck of a hangover. Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio is Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute, and author of a dozen books about growth, peak oil, and energy issues. His latest […]
Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now!
Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now! Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a mass extinction of species (possibly including our own). Therefore the only […]
Greece Diary
Greece Diary I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both enlightening and disturbing, and is worth relating. Travel to Greece came at the invitation of […]
Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy
Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we are presently using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources annually. We […]
Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth
Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth Container terminal image via shutterstock. Reproduced at Resilience.org with permission. The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs. […]
