Future Scenarios: Energy & Economy Moderator Bill Baue of Sea Change Media frames the discussion by defining scenarios, and setting forth four future scenarios proposed by permaculture co-founder David Holmgren in his 2008 book, Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change.

At Audubon’s Future Scenarios: Energy & Economy panel discussion, Libby Cheney, Shell’s top executive for sustainability in the Americas, describes Shell’s Energy Scenarios to 2050 report, which proposes two plausible futures: Scramble, characterized by national self-interest, and Blueprints, characterized by global cooperation.

At Audubon’s Future Scenarios: Energy & Economy panel discussion, Cary Krosinsky, North American Vice President of the environmental investment research firm Trucost and Co-Editor of the book Sustainable Investing, presents research on how carbon will impact investment portfolios when cap-and-trade systems come into play.

At the Audubon Future Scenarios: Energy & Economy panel discussion, Chris Martenson, a Post Carbon Institute Fellow who created the Crash Course,
explains how net energy (what’s available for use after extraction) is declining toward an “energy cliff” where we won’t have sufficient energy to fuel our modern lifestyles. He cautions that if we don’t pursue solutions to this problem, it will soon become a predicament with uncontrollable outcomes.

Welcome to the Sea Change Media hub for the Audubon Future Scenarios: Energy & Economy panel discussion that Sea Change produced and moderated and Shell sponsored.  This site serves as the home for online discussion about the panel — qualify to win a copy of Chris Martenson’s Crash Course or Cary Krosinsky’s Sustainable Investing by commenting on the presentations below.

Watch videos of the presentations:

• Sea Change Media Executive Director Bill Baue
• Shell Americas Vice President of Environment and Sustainable Development Libby Cheney
• Trucost North American Vice President Cary Krosinsky
• Independent Economic Analyst and Post Carbon Institute Fellow Chris Martenson

You can also listen to the complete panel and question-and-answer session.

• Shell
• Pax World
• Marcal
• Monsanto