Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (Sesync) to model the risks of civilisational collapse, based on analysis of the key factors involved in the rise and fall of past civilisations.
The broad point here is that growth and collapse is a much more fundamental process than capitalism…
Thus far the debate around unconventional gas/fracking has focussed on pollution, flammable water, earthquakes, noise, toxic fumes, climate change, etc. As a result people mainly focus on the "what?", or at a local level the "where?", of the issue. My research leads me toward one single question… "why?".
The WHO (World Health Organization) has released its latest in a series of reports…I find the report psychologically dissociative, ethically compromised, and in an intellectual malaise.
How long can economic growth continue in a finite world? This is the question the 1972 book The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others sought to answer.
What is correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy?…With different approaches, researchers can obtain vastly different indications. I will show that the real issue is most researchers are modeling the wrong limit.
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
With Christmas past, household consumption reached its yearly peak in many countries. Whilst this celebration still brings up a homely picture of tranquility, the truth is that Christmas is characterized more by frenzied shopping, stress and overspending than by peace and quality time.
There has always seemed to be something deeply wrong with fracking for oil and natural gas.
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
A Manchester where all people can thrive without harming the planet? Mark Burton introduces the Steady State Manchester Project…
The issue of our collective state of denial had been bothering me for a year or two by the time Michael Moore showed up in Madison.
