Resource Insights

My latest column on Scitizen entitled "How Many Windmills Does It Take to Power the World?" has now been posted. Here is the tea...

History would be a very boring read indeed if nothing changed. Imagine reading about the Roman Empire if it had survived intact and more le...

The history of the 19th and 20th centuries could fairly be characterized as the history of urbanization. Today, every culture is rife with s...

People have been moving to the suburbs for decades to escape the supposed afflictions of the city: noise, crime, lack of privacy, air pollut...

Stunning new highs in some world commodity prices have catastrophists of all types tapping out SOS in their sleep. There was, of course, the...

We are all subject to bouts of magical thinking . The classic and most widespread form of this is to confuse correlation with causation. On...

Canadians think about heat a lot more than most people do for obvious reasons. And, since so many Canadians rely on natural gas to heat the...

My latest column on Scitizen entitled "The Coal Question Revisited" has now been posted. Here is the teaser: Many people believ...

There is nothing that says, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," quite like a trip to China with Edward Burtynsky , an internati...

It is now almost de rigueur for any self-respecting peak oil activist engaged in a conversation about energy to announce that the automobile...