Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Vaclav Smil, preeminent expert on energy history and development, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what is required for our fossil fuel-dependent civilization to transition to a... For the first time in ...

Vaclav Smil was born in 1943, during World War II, in Czechoslovakia, in the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As a teenager, Smil’s parents expected him to chop wood, every four hours, to ...

Author Vaclav Smil tackles the big problems facing America and the world. Andreas Laszlo Konrath "There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil," Bill Gates wrote this summer.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey, there is a sculpture depicting a huge pile of lifelike ...

The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop. Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus in the ...