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A Desire Named Streetcar

Twentysomethings are eschewing their cars in never-before-seen numbers for alternate forms of transit...

Peak oil review - May 20

 A weekly update. Including: -Oil and the global economy -Middle East …

Too soon to tell: The case for hope, continued

Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the …

Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks

Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it …

Will the International Energy Agency's oil forecast be wrong again?

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based …

Peak oil - May 17

•Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global markets •The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate …
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Governance in the Long Emergency

It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually?

Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit

In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering …

'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants

We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human …

Don't Trust Your Stone Age Brain: It's Unsustainable

Humans have evolved to feel a single sense of self, but our emotional brain …

Deep Green Jobs

America's green jobs movement parades as many green hues as our …

Why I haven’t been flying (much)

Over three decades I have received many requests to travel across Australia and across the world to speak at a conference, teach a course or …

Unburnable: Risky Fossil Fuel Investments & Climate Crisis

Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial crisis.  From London, Bob Ward, LSE lead author of "Unburnable: Carbon …

Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane

I refuse to accept that the lurch to 500ppm, 600ppm, 800ppm is an …

Peak oil notes - May 16

A mid-week update. While oil prices are little changed this week, there has …

Counting the Calories and calories

 As soon as we step out of our homes in pursuit of food, we cross an …

What if there is Peak Oil?

So here is the dirty little secret of our civilization: It runs...energy …

The Corporate Enclosure of Seeds Intensifies

If you think that a farmer ought to be able to use the seeds from one crop …

Lawns Of Purple and Gold

We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that …

The Pleasures of Extinction

The latest apocalyptic fad is near-term human extinction, or NTE for short: …

"What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution"   

Gar Alperovitz's keynote speech at "The Summit" at Appalachian …

"Apocalyptic Journalism" and Why We Need Reporters to Face the Reality of Our Crumbling Society

We have no choice but to deal with the collapse of journalism, but we also …
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