I was living in Wisconsin at the time, the home state of Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day. Thirty-four years later, I had the great honor of meeting and working with him on a photo shoot and handing him a white pine sapling, a tree that he had requested to hold. Si...
1. Declining EROI.Much of the infrastructure of the United States was built in the day when oil was cheap because theEnergy Return on Energy Invested(EROI) was very high. Over time, EROI has dropped, and as a result, the price of oil has risen. When the price of oil was inexpensive,...