Post Carbon Institute
The Post Carbon Institute is a team of highly regarded thought leaders, whose collective mission is to lead the immediate transition to a resilient, equitable and sustainable world.
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Post Carbon Institute Must Read Essay of the Month (by Nate Hagens): http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5967

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Post Carbon Institute PCI Fellow ROB HOPKINS gives great TED talk. Watch the vid and get fired up!: http://bit.ly/PCI112

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Post Carbon Institute ECO-QUESTION OF THE DAY #34: Where is the unified fight back from the "left" against 'climate gate'? Rephrased: Why won't progressives stand up for themselves? The whole "world hanging in the balance" isn't enough of a motivator?

Yesterday at 09:21
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Post Carbon Institute ECO-QUESTION OF THE DAY #33: In an effor to achieve 80% consumption reduction goals, will you be eating 80% less turkey tomorrow?

25 November at 17:44
Lance Meredith
Lance Meredith
Is that organically grown soya with no use of diesel or articial fertilizers to grow it?! :D
26 November at 14:51
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JP Greenhouse: Can you share a link that shows your project? Many of us would love to learn more...
Yesterday at 09:19
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Post Carbon Institute ECO-QUESTION OF THE DAY #32: This is for the Zero Energy crew: Is there ONE working model of a 'zero energy' device? (If was whisked away in a black helicopter or the inventor was kidnapped, it doesn't count).

23 November at 12:33
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Ahmad, you can choose to consume beer or not, but that's a different question altogether. :)
25 November at 17:45
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Post Carbon Institute Black Friday Tarnishes the Globe: http://bit.ly/8L0KTE

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ATHENS, GEORGIA USA (November 23, 2009) -- All those products and packaging about to be consumed during the world’s biggest shopping day will have a major effect on climate change. This finding is derived from complementary reports recently released by the U.S. ...
Justin
Justin
All holidays are consumerist holidays, these days. Buy gifts, buy excess food, buy cards...buy buy buy.
24 November at 09:23
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Scientists are expecting five billion tons of ice to break away from the Petermann glacier in Greenland this summer—a piece about the size of Manhattan.
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Post Carbon Institute Let's hope pro-climate protests in Copenhagen are more effective/smart than those by UC Berkeley students. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34066960/ns/us_news-education/

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University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees barricaded themselves Friday inside part of a campus building.
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Post Carbon Institute 'DISASTER TRANSITIONISM' Short, powerful essay by Asher Miller: http://bit.ly/3d7Qi3
#naomiklein #shockdoctrine #pci

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If you haven't read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, you really should. It's an examination of how the Chicago School of Economics and its adherents have taken advantage of or created crises to further their privatiza
Matt McRae
Matt McRae
Steve, if you have a minute, I posted a follow up to an earlier question below ( that realtes to this post as well). Thank you to all who are carrying on this conversation here.
20 November at 01:12
Matt McRae
Matt McRae
This disaster transitionism article is great. Thank you to Mr. Miller for connecting some dots and providing clarity of purpose.
20 November at 01:31
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Post Carbon Institute At Post Carbon Institute, we ask only one deceptively simple thing from citizens and leaders alike: FACE REALITY. Sweeping changes will flow from there.

19 November at 14:09
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Post Carbon Institute "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son will ride a camel." - Contemporary Saudi wisdom

19 November at 11:23
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Post Carbon Institute Here's a laugher. Saudi Arabia will seek financial aid if the world reduces oil consumption: http://bit.ly/tZewM

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Saudi Arabia may join the list of countries seeking financial aid over the UN climate deal. According to a Forbes.com report, during the UN’s recent greenhouse gas talks in Bangkok, Saudi Arabia campaigned ...
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Post Carbon Institute ECO QUESTION OF THE DAY #31: What now?

19 November at 09:27
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Post Carbon Institute SMART way to engage the enemy. Go Branson, go. http://bit.ly/1fnfmW
#carbonwarroom

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A new nonprofit, which aims to fight climate change with the aid of entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, is mounting its first campaign -- against inefficient ships.
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Post Carbon Institute Naomi Klein - Climate RAGE: http://bit.ly/igmQa

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Published in Rolling Stone One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. Officials ...