An Energy Diet for a Healthy Planet – Part II
Now one might think with all these heat losses that going all-electric isn’t a good idea until all our electricity is produced by hydro and renewables. One would be wrong.
powering down
The Paris Climate Talks: A Nepali View
Before the COP21 meetings in Paris, I had never attended an international negotiation of any kind. Based on my experiences at the talks, I brought back to Nepal new and sometimes alarming understandings that will guide me in my continued activism for justice and climate change.
How an Alternative School in India has been running on Alternative Energy since the 1980s
When we first heard about Sholai School, located amidst the pristine nature of the Palani Hills in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, we were so captivated by its description that we decided to take a local bus to visit the establishment.
How Far Can We Get Without Flying?
I’m a climate scientist who doesn’t fly…I’d assumed that electricity and driving were my largest sources of emissions. Instead, it turned out that the 50,000 miles I’d flown that year.
The Path Ahead from Paris
We need to work together to create a “biosphere smart” economy
Baucis and Philemon in the 21st Century: Notes on Living Small
I live in the nation with the highest rates of personal consumption and energy use ever seen on earth, and I live small.
Creating Local Community Resilience to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The accelerating climate crisis requires massive mobilization of populations to take back control of our lives through resistance, replacement, and resilience.
My Journey Towards Degrowth
Setting aside some of my big ambitions — studying, writing, trying to amass twitter followers — to simply move slowly evolved my understanding of how to degrow.
Your Basic Essentials
More than a hundred years of consumer capitalism and the free labor of fossil fuels have left most of us ill-equipped to contemplate the essentials of life and the value of work.
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic.
Filming the Change in New Zealand
As this year wraps up and the footage for our feature-length documentary, A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, goes away to the editor, I’m planning a trip to New Zealand to make a series of short films about all kinds of inspiring people and projects.
Richard Heinberg: After the Burn
After a two-century-long burning bender, the globe is in for a heck of a hangover.