It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the ove….

Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, i….

All of the easy oil is gone and what's left is requiring more energy and money and this has an effect on everything. Our problem is that we've create….

If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be att….

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not ….

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible….

The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-….

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of ….

Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more importa….

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural ….

The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scar….

When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from….

If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports r….

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices..

Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with..

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate..

We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only s….

As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Go….

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the b….