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 [...]