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Heft Notes: Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything"

Detailed summary of this important new book on how to combat climate change.

Peak Oil Review - Dec 29

A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East and …

David Hughes Weighs In on The Fracking Fallacy Debate

The Fracking Fallacy debate is important because it casts doubt on the …

John Muir’s Last Stand

One hundred years on from John Muir's death his legacy is under …

Happy Holidays from Resilience.org !

We'll be taking a holiday break and posting lightly over the next few days.

Five energy surprises for 2015: The possible and the improbable

There is an outside chance that one or more will occur, and this would move markets and policy debates in unexpected directions.
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Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart

As it happens, the planet’s changing climate now demands that we summon up the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe with it some portion of the Age of Capitalism as well).

Waiting for the Sunrise

By the time many of my readers get to this week’s essay here on The …

Peak Oil Notes - Dec 25

Oil futures have been volatile this week, swinging $1-2 a barrel on the …

Becoming Indigenous: Settling a Population Adrift in an Unstable World

Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group …

Fracking Fracas: The Trouble with Optimistic Shale Gas Projections by the U.S. Department of Energy

The implications of the EIA being wrong on its projections of …

Review: The Great Transition - The New Paradigm

Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase …

With Water, Life Returns to the Colorado River Delta

Last spring, on the eighth day of the release of Colorado River water into its channel at the US-Mexico border – an event known as the …

Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution

Seed activists can put a mark in the win column. Recently, the city council …

Renewables Competitive Though Not Yet at Scale

Investment in renewables worldwide has picked up steam.

From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning

The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent …

Response by Giorgos Kallis to Brian Davey’s review of Degrowth

If climate disaster, degrowth and whatever else the future holds for us is …

Kids on Chicago’s West Side Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Restorative Circles

“How can we create an environment that doesn’t just respond …

Are small-scale renewable energy grids already starting to replace mega-utility corporations?

Increasing efficiencies in energy storage and transmission combined with …

Responding to the Prison Industrial Complex with Permaculture and Resilience

People are also the environment, we are our own ecological system integrated …

Review: "Corporations are not People"

The title says it all: Corporations Are Not People.

As New York Bans Fracking, Calls for Moratorium in Pennsylvania Grow Stronger

Some environmental advocates are calling for Pennsylvania to undertake a …
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