By Samuel Alexander, Joshua Floyd, The Ecologist
This leads us to the view – open to change through ongoing learning of which actual experience related to the realisation of post-carbon societies will be central – that humanity’s best course of action is to act in the present as if renewable futures will entail energy descent.
By Samuel Alexander, Joshua Floyd, Resilience.org
Our goal presently is to broaden the discourse on energy futures. If we cannot always provide comprehensive answers in the space available, we hope at least to provoke thought about new questions, with the aim of unsettling some assumptions about energy futures presently held with undue confidence.
By Shaun Chamberlin, David Fleming, STIR to Action
It is a truth universally acknowledged that competitiveness is a good thing.
By Samuel Alexander, The Griffith Review
OVER THE LAST two centuries in the West, we have been telling ourselves that economic growth is the most direct path to prosperity, that the good life implies material affluence, and that technology and ‘free markets’ will be able to solve most of our social and environmental problems.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Heinberg, who has few peers in the art of distilling complex messages down to simple, easily understandable take-aways, gives this summation of our fossil fuel predicament: “it’s all about energy; renewables are the future; growth is over.”
By Hal Ginsberg, Richard Heinberg, Radio Monterey
Richard Heinberg on his new book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.
By David Swanson, Richard Heinberg, Talk Nation Radio
Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there.
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Within a couple of years, those of us who have spent most of the past two decades warning about the approaching peak may see vindication by data, if not by public opinion.
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Or, What I’ve Learned in 12 Years Writing about Energy
By Yves Cochet, Holmgren Design
More than an agricultural technology, permaculture is a vision of the societies of tomorrow, ours, which will be confronted with the evolution of energy and climate systems.