It took two tries, but I finally got past the ash cloud and made it to Lisbon to promote the Portuguese edition of my book. What I found when I got there was a country already preparing itself for the new smaller world that my book predicts.
The European monetary union is a vestige of the [...]

I suppose it’s only natural that the nation that’s soon to be the world’s largest consumer of oil should seek access to what will soon be the world’s largest source of new oil supply (which will happen even sooner if deep-water oil production is about to get nuked).
The acquisition of a nine per cent share [...]

America’s dream of greater energy independence is rapidly turning into an ecological nightmare. Instead of filling empty gas tanks, BP’s Deepwater Horizon well miles offshore is oozing thousands of barrels a day of oil, already covering an area over 1,900 square miles in the food-rich waters of the Gulf of Mexico. With no way of [...]

Like millions of others, I was supposed to be flying over European skies last Saturday night—in my case to do a couple of days of media in Lisbon around the launch of the Portuguese edition of my book,“Porque É Que o Seu Mundo Vai Ficar Muito Mais Pequeno.”
Of course, I never got to Portugal. Most [...]

Environmentalists on both sides of the border are cheering the recent announcement from Washington and Ottawa that both the United States and Canada will soon simultaneously impose much tougher fuel-emission standards for car manufacturers. Any given vehicle producer’s combined fleet of cars and trucks must average 35 miles per gallon by 2016 (or 100 kilometers [...]