Falling Empires
John Michael Greer returns in Extraenvironmentalist #81. Then,Chris Martenson joins us to discuss his work in communicating difficult information to people who don’t want to believe it.
Culture & Behavior
Introducing Petrolify®: The Power of Petroleum in One Little Pill
Imagine there was a pill you could take every day that would provide you with wealth, freedom, and luxuries beyond the imagination of even the wealthiest kings of yesteryear. Well, guess what? You’re already taking it. And it’s called Petrolify®.
First Nations People Reclaiming Their Heritage
This First Nations woman works with youth, elders and spiritual leaders to practice their culture and “activate their blood memories,” as one elder calls it.
Dying Wisdom
Though death is an inevitable part of life, do we really act as if we know we’re going to die?
What’s so Funny About Climate Change
Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’ theory.
Public Energy Art Kits Push Back Against Consumerism
You have immense powers." That’s one of the messages of Post Carbon Institute’s Public Energy Art Kit (P.E.A.K.) project.
Two Realities
Our contemporary world is host to two coexisting but fundamentally different—and, in at least one crucial respect, contradictory—realities. Political Reality and Physical Reality.
Smile For The Aliens
How will people cope when some of their most cherished beliefs have to face a cage match with reality, and come out second best?
In a Handful of Dust
I want to review here some of the reasons why I expect an era of crisis to arrive sooner rather than later.
What does the “American Dream” mean today?
How—and how successfully—are Americans achieving this dream? How has the concept of the “American Dream” shifted over the past 10 years?
Making Climate Change Graphic
Can the climate change story be told better in pictures? Two recent books attempt just that.
Boom or bust time for critical thinking?
Following the massive bailouts, stimulus spending and quantitative easing of recent years, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went back to sleep, says Richard Heinberg. But the coming global energy crisis will likely provide the jolt that wakes everyone up again.