The Ragweed Tribe

We are at the gatehouse to The Farm, the Welcome Center we set up for greeting guests as they arrive. This day they are coming for the annual homecoming celebration we call Ragweed Days. Our job is not unlike the door greeters’ at WalMart, without the blue vests. We have a tie-dye pouch to hold […]

The Humbling of Rex Tillerson

It was inevitable that there was going to be a fair amount of chaos in the early days of the Donald Trump administration. The president is a political neophyte, he surrounded himself with a small clique of advisers who are relatively new to politics themselves, his executive experience comes from running a relatively small private […]

Canada Is Building a 7 Megawatt-Hour Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant

Green energy is a popular topic right now, with many countries signing on to the Paris Climate Accord and planning to move away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy. While most countries are working toward establishing solar and wind power farms, some countries like Canada are looking toward the creation of compressed air storage plants for power […]

Sustainable Farming Basics and Impacts

Sustainable Farming or Sustainable Agriculture is a way of producing food indefinitely. Some ways of producing food protect the “life support systems” that we depend on – from healthy soil to clean groundwater – while other methods damage them. “Sustainable” food production means using approaches that do not degrade these essential systems but protect and […]

After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Toward Social Collapse?

Several years ago, Glen Sweetnam, director of the International, Economic and Greenhouse Gas division of the Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy (DOE), announced that worldwide oil availability had reached a “plateau.” However, his statement was not made known through a major US mainstream media outlet. Instead, it was covered in France’s Le […]

Oil Export Madness

We’ve been on quite a ride since the U.S. tight oil boom took off a decade ago. In fact, you can say that drillers in the Lower 48 have exceeded expectations. Back in 2013, the EIA never saw U.S. crude output topping 8 million barrels per day. I told you at the time that our […]

The Empire Strikes Back: State Repression in Trump’s America

Since Donald Trump’s ascendance to the US presidency, there have been waves of felony arrests targeting Indigenous water protectors, radicals and anarchists. In this clip from our latest episode of Trouble, we look at the case of the J20 co-defendants – over 200 people facing a minimum of 8 felony charges each – and protestors […]

Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies

By popular demand, we welcome Joseph Tainter, USU professor and author of The Collapse Of Complex Societies (free book download here). Dr. Tainter sees many of the same unsustainable risks the PeakProsperity.com audience focuses on — an overleveraged economy, declining net energy per capita, and depleting key resources. He argues that the sustainability or collapse of a […]

Why oil will remain relevant in the future

As the world strives to kick its oil addiction, the Canadian oilpatch is doubling down on the volatile commodity. And with due respect to conventional wisdom, it might win its bet in doing so. Leading this year’s exodus of offshore investors from Athabasca are Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Houston’s ConocoPhillips, the latest in a […]

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