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A Desire Named Streetcar

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

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

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, …

Peak oil - May 17

•Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global markets …

Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks

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

Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit

In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering heat, the intense odor of fermenting fruits is in the air. A tree covered …

'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 history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, "the amount of …
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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?

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 national …

Why I haven’t been flying (much)

Over three decades I have received many requests to travel across Australia …

Unburnable: Risky Fossil Fuel Investments & Climate Crisis  

Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial …

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 inevitability. I refuse to accept, as Nigel Lawson tried to argue in his debate with the remarkably patient Kevin Anderson on Jeremy Vine’s radio show recently, that doing …

Peak oil notes - May 16

A mid-week update. While oil prices are little changed this week, there has been considerable news concerning the energy markets. Bad economic reports from Europe, the US, and China have helped keep pressure on the markets and raised fears of …

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 …

Reexamining Rationing

 Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The …

The NR35 Dead-Hedgers Society

It just so happened that the five of us who turned up at Richard’s on …
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