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Reports: Shale Gas Bubble Looms, Aided by Wall Street

Steve Horn | Posted 04.22.2013 | Green
Read More: Big Banks, J. Dave Hughes, Shale Gas Bubble, Post Carbon Institute, Fracking, Energy Policy Forum, Deborah Rogers, Housing Bubble, Hydraulic Fracturing, Wall Street, Green News
Steve Horn

Two long-awaited reports were published today at ShaleBubble.org by the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) and the Energy Policy Forum (EPF). Together, the reports conclude that the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") boom could lead to a "bubble burst" akin to the housing bubble burst of 2008.

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WATCH: Is Keystone XL Your Annoying Ex-Boyfriend?

Posted 07.30.2012 | Green
Read More: Energy, Video, Post Carbon Institute, Keystone Xl Parody, Keystone-Pipeline, Anti-Keystone Xl Video, Keystone XL Protests, Keystone XL, Keystone Pipeline Spoof, Keystone Xl Spoof, Green News

With the fervor of anti-Keystone XL protests in the past year, is the American people's relationship with the proposed pipeline like a relationship go...

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Who Killed Economic Growth? (And Why the Planet Is Listening)

Asher Miller | Posted 10.04.2011 | Green
Read More: Limits to Growth, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, Economic Growth, National Debt, Peak Oil, End of Growth, Oil Industry, Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Economy, Green News
Asher Miller

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Where Elites Fail

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 07.20.2011 | College
Read More: Commencement Talks, Exxon, Oil Peak, Post-Carbon Institute, Worcester, Elite Failure, Tillerson, Heinberg, Cold War, College News
Craig K. Comstock

Elites in both corporations and government are often quite good at running systems they create, and bad at looking beyond these systems at larger social effects. This doubleness was on display at the Worcester Polytechnic commencement.

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Weekly Mulch: The Sticky Truth about Oil Spills and Tar Sands

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Congress, The American Prospect, Green Jobs, Oil Sands Discovery Centre, Obama Administration, Richard Heinberg, The Nation, Friends of the Earth, Pipeline, National Oil Spill Commission, Canada, Offshore Drilling, Tar Sands, Mother Jones, Oil Pipelines, Earth Island Journal, Transcanada, Bp, The Michigan Messenger, Halliburton, Alberta, Keystone XL, Care2, Oceana, Transocean, Post Carbon Institute, State Department, Peak Oil, BP Oil Spill, Hillary Clinton, Paul Elliott, Economy, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The National Oil Spill Commission released its report on last year's BP oil spill this week. The report la...

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Oprah Winfrey Shocks Viewers With Surprise Gift

Asher Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Post Carbon Institute, Consumerism, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Whybrow, Green News
Asher Miller

Wouldn't it be nice if -- instead of hawking throw-away products -- Oprah urged her audience to break this dangerous addiction, before it's too late?

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Uttering the "C" Word

Asher Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Conservation, Post Carbon Institute, Breakthrough Institute, Clean Energy, Brookings Institution, Green News
Asher Miller

I was intrigued to learn that authors from three politically disparate think tanks--American Enterprise Institute, Brookings, and Breakthrough Institu...

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