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I caught up with Hagens at his home in Minnesota to talk about his personal journey and environmental insights.

This year Post Carbon Institute turns 20, so it’s a good time to take stock. What have we done, what’s left to do?

Of course if anyone manages to create “Biosphere Three” a closed loop system running off a fusion power plant supporting plants, animals and humans for even one year, without any solar or other energy input, AND pay for all the embodied energy (measured by eMergy accounting) in the whole setup, do wake me from my dreams of a prosperous way down through energy descent futures, to let me know the news.

Tucked inside a massive defense reauthorization was a promotion for a once undervalued general whose life taught lessons about learning from mistakes.

Lost in the pre-holiday rush to send unprecedented criminal referrals of a former president to the Justice Department, overshadowed by the effort during a global conference in Montreal to make

Lost in the pre-holiday rush to send unprecedented criminal referrals of a former president to the Justice Department, overshadowed by the effort during a global conference in Montreal to make

Lost in the pre-holiday rush to send unprecedented criminal referrals of a former president to the Justice Department, overshadowed by the effort during a global conference in Montreal to make

Over the decades, the book has sold millions of copies and, despite shortcomings, deserves to be read again today because of the threat of nuclear devastation.

Over the 19th and 20th centuries physical power, social power, and economies grew explosively. The main cause was humanity’s exploitation of fossil fuels.

We must decide which fossil-fueled services are essential, and we must drastically curtail all other fossil-fueled services immediately.