Distributed Renewable Generation

By Sheila Bowers, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

June 4, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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Sheila Bowers

Sheila Bowers is a citizen activist with solardoneright.org. For several years she has been researching the economic, political, and legal biases that promote industrial-scale energy development while artificially impeding the growth of environmentally sound distributed generation.

Tags: Community energy, distributed power generation, energy-reality, Renewable Energy

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Entropia and the Disintegration of Empire

By Samuel Alexander, Resilience.org

As the current situation (March 2026) around the Strait of Hormuz continues to destabilise the global economy, it is timely to return to Alexander’s analysis outlining ‘the Disintegration of Empire’ (being Chapter Two of Entropia).

March 23, 2026

Great Depression sculpture (man sitting listening to radio).

Is the complacency in global financial markets warranted?

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Financial markets so far have reflected the belief that the Iran war will be over soon and that commerce will return to normal. I explain why I think this belief is unwarranted and why President Trump’s latest announcement regarding bombing Iran’s power plants is economic suicide.

March 22, 2026

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Oil price manipulation, an unrecognized stratagem and an unhinged plan

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Oil price manipulation is taking many forms after the closure of one of the world’s major choke points for oil transport sent oil prices higher.

March 15, 2026