Act: Inspiration

Powering Down the Future

By Rob Dietz, Juliet Jacobs, originally published by Post Carbon Institute

July 19, 2017

What will happen once our fossil fuel inheritance is spent and are we doing enough to develop a replacement energy infrastructure? Julia Jacobs at BFM radio discusses these scenarios with Rob Dietz, the Program Director at the Post Carbon Institute. Having built a career aimed at moving society in sustainable directions, Rob also discusses practical and concrete things we can do to support the transition to a sustainable economy, particularly in the current economic and political climate.

Originally posted on BFM Malaysia

Rob Dietz

Rob Dietz is the Program Director at Post Carbon Institute, where he guides projects from conception to completion. With training and experience in ecological economics, environmental science, and conservation biology, he has built a career aimed at moving society in sustainable directions.  Rob is the lead author of the bestselling book Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources (Berrett-Koehler, 2013).

Tags: building resilient communities, new economy, powering down

Crazy Town Episode 85

Crazy Town 85. Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

From the top of a skyscraper in Dubai, Jason, Rob, and Asher chug margaritas made from the purest Greenland glacier ice as they cover the “merits” of globalism. International trade brings so many things, like murder hornets and deadly supply chain disruptions. The opposite of globalism is localism — learn how to build a secure local economy that can keep Asher alive, hopefully at least through the end of the season.

April 24, 2024

Kumi Naidoo interview

Kumi Naidoo: Origins and Self-Care in the Journey for Justice

By Post Carbon Institute, Resilience.org

For more than 40 years, Kumi Naidoo has been a voice for social, economic and environmental justice. To get a glimpse into Kumi’s story and what he will talk about in our May 14th event, watch this interview with Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller.

April 23, 2024

butterlly emerging from chrysalis

A ‘Transcender Manifesto’ for a world beyond capitalism. A seed.

By Dil Green, Lowimpact.org

We seek not to destroy capitalism, nor to reform it, but to transcend it – to consciously and rapidly evolve past it.

April 18, 2024