ECLA PA helping to create a green "Ambitious, fantastic" project in Ivyland and Johnsville, (Warminster) PA Once slated for destruction, both the Centrifuge Building, the world's largest and most powerful dynamic flight simulator, at the... (read more)

One of the real benefits about being part of the Post carbon Institute is the credibility it confers when we respond to irresponsible journalism. The article in question is the lead editorial in today's The... (read more)

I've been watching the growth of public awareness of the "triple-threat" (peak oil, global climate change, and global resource depletion) in the "public mind" for more than a decade, and decades longer for the environment.... (read more)

I am a Masters student at Queen's University in Kingston, ON. I am seeking individuals interested in participating in research interviews for a master's thesis. Participants, located in the greater Philadelphia area, should be actively involved... (read more)

I'm about ten days back from a week off after Thanksgiving. I attended an intensive course on home energy auditing. My email failed on return and just got baxck up yesterday. I'm wading through almost... (read more)

ECLA PA's Coordinator comment posted on New York Times' Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog Sometimes staying up past my bedtime to post an item pays off. I responded to an interesting item in Andrew Revkin's new... (read more)

The Arctic ice cap shrank this past summer to an extent unparalleled in a century or more, reported The New York Times this morning. The poles, canaries in the mine of global warming because of... (read more)

Since the mid-nineteen eightees I've been an avid reader of the Tuesday New York Times because they have an interesting science section called the Science Times. I have never been moved to write a response... (read more)

There is mounting evidence that the "Hard Truths" about peak oil, global warming, and population is being taken ever more seriously in official circles. The July 18 Draft Report from the US National Petroleum Council,... (read more)

I recently saw A Crude Awakening, a new video on peak oil. I was deeply impressed and was surprised that it didn't come from Global Public Media. While doing some research in preparation for presenting... (read more)

This is a first post, so it's an introduction as well. I'm a South Philly gal, born & raised...spent as much time in Santa Cruz, and several years in Ballina, Curracloe, County Wexford (across the water,... (read more)

This is a post about life at 62. Not 62 years, 62 degrees. That's where I keep my thermostat these days. Frankly, I'd go lower if I were not worried about freezing... (read more)