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Mountaintop removal provides Appalachian coal to Europe

By James Marriot, Transition Voice

Ever since Europeans arrived on this continent they have been digging and mining, shipping the fruits of these soils back across the Atlantic.

Energy Reality: What We’re For

By FDE and PCI staff, Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

Recognizing that all human economic activity is a subset of nature’seconomy and must not degrade its vitality is the starting point for systemic transformation of the energy system.

Fukushima and our inability to gauge risk

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Perhaps the most important energy story on the planet right now is the precarious situation for fuel rods stored in a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power station. However, there is another story beyond the immediate danger that tells us something about how we think about risk.

How to deflate the carbon bubble

By Truls Gulowsen, Open Democracy

The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union activists have formed a new alliance, and published a book on how to wean the country off oil.

If We Burn All the Fossil Fuels

By Amy Huva, Read the Science

Basically, if we burn all the fossil fuels, we’re all going down and taking the rest of the species on the planet with us, and we really will be the dumbest smart species ever to cause our own extinction.

Albert Bartlett: On message about exponential growth to the end

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"in 1969. The lecture begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Our Fossil-Fueled Future

By Michael Klare, TomDispatch

If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas -- and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.

Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? – Paul Gilding in Conversation with Asher Miller

By Paul Gilding, Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute

In this far ranging discussion, Paul and Asher discuss the importance of the psychology of winning within the climate movement and the evidence Paul sees -- in the debate of ideas, in the renewable energy market, in the fear of investors -- that the fossil fuel industry is on the cusp of becoming a dying industry.