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The Geopolitics of Overconsumption, Where Less is More

Posted May 17, 2012   By Corey Johnson

Individual success has long been equated with consuming more. Building a larger house translates into extracting more resources to build, heat, and cool it. Fossil fuels are consumed to drive us to our workplaces, to power a multitude of home electronic devices, and to fuel the container ships and trucks that bring us furniture from far afield. More than 50 percent of U.S.

Poland’s Flame of Hope

Posted February 9, 2012   By Corey Johnson, Tim Boersma

In late September, the Polish national oil and gas company lit a symbolically important flare of natural gas near Lubocino in northern Poland, which it called a “flame of hope.” The hope is that the layer of subterranean shale rock holds the country’s energy future.