Interview with Peak Oil expert Richard Heinberg on his new book "Coal, Climate Change, and the Last Energy Crisis". Then speech by Paul Hawken, author of "The Ecology of Commerce" and now "Blessed Unrest". Keynote at "Resilient Cities" conference, Vancouver 091020 on a movement to bounce back.
www.ecoshock.org www.postcarbon.org www.gaininggroundsummit.com www.paulhawken.com Song "What You Dont Know CAN Hurt You" by Million Dollar Nile www.myspace.com/milliondollarnile
Richard Heinberg is a key to the Peak Oil movement, especially with his books "The Party's Over" and "Powerdown". He's expanded to catalog our over-use of many resources, with his book "Peak Everything". Now he's investigated the myth that coal could keep us going for hundreds of years. Not so, not at all.
Heinberg is also very aware of energy damage to the atmosphere and climate. We discuss whether "peak coal" will arrive in time to save the climate. And the fragility of storing all our knowledge on machines that need electricity (which may become unreliable).
Paul Hawken founded Erewhon natural foods way back when, has been an alternative thinker and writer, and one of the few to (a) synthesize our developing problems while (b) maintaining a sense of optimism we may climb out of the hole. I call him a "ray of hope". This powerful speech is part three of our continuing series from "Resilient Cities, Urban Strategies for Transition Times" in Vancouver, Oct 20-22 2009.
Check out Paul's bio at paulhawken.com. He's also into several high-tech information retrieval businesses, while maintaining a giant database of social justice and environmental groups at www.wiserearth.org. Could be one of the best speeches of the year.
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