Green Options » Post Carbon Institute http://greenoptions.com/tag/post-carbon-institute Posts tagged 'Post Carbon Institute' Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Add Your Name to Those Asking for a Real — and Green — New Deal http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/ Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Wikimedia Commons, public domain)Want to add your two cents’ worth to the incoming Obama administration’s call for New Deal-type investments in the US? You can help ensure a better future — and a greener one at that — by endorsing the Post Carbon Institute’s new proposal: “The Real New Deal: Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy, Economic and Environmental Recovery.”

Written by Post Carbon Instituters Richard Heinberg, Asher Miller, Daniel Lerch and Andrew Calvo, “The Real New Deal” calls on President-elect Barack Obama to completely redesign our economy and society to wean it from its dependence on cheap (and soon-to-be not-so-cheap) fossil fuels.

“Our 21st century nation’s dependence on 20th century fossil fuels is the root of the economic and environmental threats we face,” the report’s executive summary states. “A coordinated, comprehensive transition to an economy that is no longer dependent on hydrocarbon fuels and no longer emits climate-changing levels of carbon — a Real New Deal for a post-carbon world — will be the Obama Administration’s greatest opportunity to lead the nation on a path toward economic, energy and environmental recovery.”

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/feed/ Drill, Baby, Drill (As In, ‘This Time, It Was Just a Drill’) http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/12/drill-baby-drill-as-in-this-time-it-was-just-a-drill/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/12/drill-baby-drill-as-in-this-time-it-was-just-a-drill/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:27:32 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/12/drill-baby-drill-as-in-this-time-it-was-just-a-drill/ U.S. government at Wikimedia Commons, public domain.)Don’t go breathing too big a sigh of relief that gas prices have come down so much from their historic peaks this summer: it doesn’t mean another peak (as in Peak Oil) isn’t still on its way. Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, explains why brilliantly in a commentary titled, “The Dress Rehearsal is Over.”

In other words, this time was just a drill, but next time might not be.

Image credit: Screenshot from “Duck and Cover,” a U.S. government-produced Cold War cautionary film for children, via Wikimedia Commons.

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