Energy

Foreclosing on the Frackers: Coronavirus and the Future of Energy (Episode 21 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org

April 16, 2020

oil well

Asher Miller

Asher became the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute in October 2008, after having served as the manager of our former Relocalization Network program. He’s worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take.

Tags: coronavirus, Crazy Town, economics of fracking

Sun through tree branches

Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

In this Frankly, Nate outlines nine aspirational categories for empowering more individuals towards mature and resilient development in service of life.

January 29, 2025

bowerbird nest

Simplicity and Complexity

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

But getting back to the matter of simplicity and complexity… the simpler, the more localized and embedded your life, the deeper and more extensive your relationships are.

January 29, 2025

The zero heating library in Nord Odal, Norway (2020).

Only So Much Oil in the Ground… or Gas for that Matter

By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance

A critical component strategy for creating a viable future energy system and addressing climate change, must surely be energy demand reduction (minimisation), e.g. through relocalisation, retrofitting buildings, local food growing, and reducing waste, to curb the size of resource [very much plural] demands, get us below overshoot and avoid collapse (if we can). 

January 29, 2025