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‘A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster’ by Rebecca Solnit

The bad news is that more disasters are coming, arising from any number of sources: climate…

This is part of Heading Out’s Sunday tech talk series.

We got oil! We have put together the drill, mounted it on the derrick, circulated mud and drilled a well and used casing to line it, and a…

The 1.258 trillion-barrel question

The Earth contains a finite amount of oil. Burned to power our vehicles, heat our homes and light our cities, this fuel is a nonrenewable resource. So when…

The author with a group of Romani people (also known as gypsies) in front of a pile of scrap iron, collected for recycling. That pile has been there for more than a year. The recycling activity…

As one of a team of three at The Institute for Sensible Transport working on this project, I’m very pleased to be able to announce Australia’s first Peak Oil Contingency Plan, developed by…