The last time we looked at a landmark 2003 paper on the potential effects of abrupt climate change that was commissioned by none other than the Pentagon. Since that Schwartz and Randall paper, two additional studies of particular note have been published as well as the emergence of yet another group involved in this environmental [...]
In Part I of this series we explored the concept of environmental security in terms of its meaning, history and the implications for the environment and for national and global security. We learned that it was not a particularly new concept but could be traced back as early as the 1960’s and, indeed, was the [...]
The Transition Handbook is a whole-systems thinking, solutions-focused, inside-out approach on how communities can manage peak oil and climate change.
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States instructs Americans, among other things, to “insure domestic tranquility” and to “provide for the common defense.” In this first of the series I would like to lay out the case that can be made for the necessity of implementing what is termed “environmental security” to meet [...]
NESEA’s architects and energy consultants are working hard to make net zero energy a standard component of new home design.
