Dealing With Collapse: The Seneca Strategy
The basic ideas in the behavior of complex systems are always the same, especially when dealing with collapses: complex systems are complex because they are dominated by the mechanism we call “feedback.”
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Can New Energy Technologies Save the Planet? Ask the Sperm Whale
Oil could have provided all the substitutes needed to end the whale industry, but instead fossil fuels energized the killing.
How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine.
‘Mud and Confusion’: Oil and Gas Industry Goes On Defense as Studies Show Offshore Exploration Could Kill Zooplankton
Seismic surveys involve an underwater air gun pulled behind a boat and fired at intervals, and as the shock waves bounce off the sea floor and return to sensors, they help reveal where oil and gas might be.
Q&A: Why Cement Emissions Matter for Climate Change
Cement use is set to rise as global urbanisation and economic development increases demand for new buildings and infrastructure. Along with other parts of the global economy, the cement industry will need to dramatically cut its emissions to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals.
The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare
There is no way for the shale industry to deal with the financial issues it faces — including its water crisis — without changing the existing rules.
National Energy Board Pushed to Correct Errors in Original 2016 Trans Mountain Report
Now that the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the National Energy Board should correct “serious mistakes” in its original 2016 report, says economist Robyn Allan.
Luxury Real Estate Boom Adds to Risk of Climate Disruption
In a report I co-authored, Towering Excess, I examine the perils of Boston’s luxury building boom in terms of its impact on inequality, affordable housing, and the increasing risks of illicit funds and money laundering.
Climate Damages and Deception: Panel Reviews California Legal Actions Against Fossil Fuel Industry
In San Francisco this week, Fossil Free California hosted a panel discussion on the most recent municipal litigation against the fossil fuel industry.
The Next Financial Crash is Imminent, and China’s Resource Crisis could be the Trigger
As long as mainstream economic institutions remain blind to the fundamental biophysical basis of economics, they will remain in the dark about the core structural reasons why the current configuration of global capitalism is so prone to recurrent crisis and collapse.
The 19th-Century Tumult over Climate Change – And Why it Matters Today
The consensus-building approach of recent climate science has successfully established anthropogenic climate change as an indisputable fact. But it has failed to translate that knowledge into action.
Catalonia, Spain: Building a Powerful Regional Network for Energy Sovereignty
Xarxa per la sobirania energètica (Xse) Catalonia brings like-minded groups together to fight for change in the energy sector locally, and collaborates with similar initiatives elsewhere in Spain, Europe and Latin America.
