Energy

Energy, Money and Technology – From the Lens of the Superorganism

By Nate Hagens, originally published by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

January 26, 2018

During Nate Hagens’ #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but more stochastic energy types.

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles. Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

Tags: ecological economics, energy depletion

Cyclists in Copenhagen

Energy Descent: Public Letter

By Energy Descent Collective, Resilience.org

There will be less energy to go around – but there will be more equality and more meaningful ways of living. This future may have less energy – but it will have more of what really matters.

April 19, 2024

solar cooker

Luther Krueger: “Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview”

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

On this episode, Nate is joined by Solar Oven collector and educator Luther Krueger to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking.

April 18, 2024

ECHR building

The ECHR’s First Climate Ruling: What Does it Mean?

By Isabella Kaminski, DeSmog Blog

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights.

April 17, 2024