Post Carbon Institute

As Post Carbon Institute and Resilience.org celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re excited to launch a new podcast series – Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling. ...

https://www.postcarbon.org/a-day-to-listen-really-listen-to-indigenous-people/

We’ve built a global civilization of unparalleled complexity, wealth, and inequality, all based on depleting, polluting fossil fuels. What could go wrong? The post Polycrisis, Unraveling, Sim...

https://www.postcarbon.org/polycrisis-unraveling-simplification-or-collapse-coming-soon-to-a-planet-near-you/

A friend and I bought the house I live in. It was 2009. A sliver of a moment when the financial system tanked enough that this water/mountain view home in Langley — albeit homely and needing si...

https://www.postcarbon.org/the-great-maw-of-consumerism/

The world’s shift away from its current reliance on fossil fuels will be the biggest, most expensive, and most complex technical project ever attempted by humans. If it fails, that might mean t...

https://www.postcarbon.org/can-civilization-survive-these-studies-might-tell-us/

This essay is dedicated to the memory of Herman Daly, the father of ecological economics, who began writing about the absurdity of perpetual economic growth in the 1970s; Herman died on October 2...

https://www.postcarbon.org/the-final-doubling/

Recently my wife Janet and I splurged on tickets to a spellbinding concert by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. The music was memorable, but a comment by orchestra leader and trumpet virtuoso Wy...

https://www.postcarbon.org/blues-for-america/

In May I wrote about the emerging energy and food crisis gripping the world due largely to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The crisis continues to unfold. However, most people are aware of it only v...

https://www.postcarbon.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-energy-crisis/

July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature. We entered overshoot ~ 40 years...

https://www.postcarbon.org/holy-sht-overshoot-dont-dither-do/

As a way to introduce our new Advisors to our larger community, we’ve asked them to answer a question or two that gives us a better understanding of their background or how they approach their ...

https://www.postcarbon.org/meet-our-advisors-elizabeth-sawin/

By Anna Ostermeier There’s a lot of bad news these days. Checking social media and news outlets can feel like being hit with wave after crashing wave of demoralizing stories on how our world is...

https://www.postcarbon.org/reclaiming-your-attention-is-key-to-cultivating-resilience-and-avoiding-burnout-part-1/