Post Carbon Institute is pleased to announce two exciting changes within the organization! After five years at the helm, Julian Darley and Celine Rich, founder and co-founder of Post Carbon Institute, have decided to shift their roles within the organization to devote their time and energies to research, writing, and outreach.

Celine has handed the Executive Director baton to Asher Miller—previously Director of Programs and Relocalization Network Manager—while Julian has formally stepped down from his position as President of Post Carbon Institute.

In addition to their continued participation on the Board of Directors, Celine and Julian join Richard Heinberg as Post Carbon Senior Fellows, focused on writing more commentaries, articles, and books, as well as networking and presenting at events across the country.

"I'm thrilled to begin working with Celine and Julian on think tank issues," said Richard Heinberg. "The experience that they both will bring to the table as Senior Fellows will greatly enhance our ability to produce research and create policy recommendations that are desperately needed in the world today."

You’ll be hearing and reading a lot more from Celine and Julian in the future! Stay tuned to postcarbon.org to keep track of their work.

Asher Miller came to Post Carbon Institute with a wealth of non-profit management experience, most recently as founder of Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions that anyone can take.

Asher was also International Production Coordinator at Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation; Partnership Director at Plugged In; Youth Manager at the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County; a writer; and a consultant for a number of other nonprofit groups. He recently served as a member of Senator John Edwards' Cleantech / Green Business Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Listening for a Change and the Advisory Board of ErthNxt.

“I am honored to become Post Carbon Institute’s Interim Executive Director. Celine and Julian have poured their heart and soul into creating this organization and I will steward it with great care,” said Asher Miller. “Our mission is to get society off fossils fuel fast and I am committed to educating and inspiring people to succeed in this momentous and urgent task.”

“I founded Global Public Media in 2001 and we incorporated Post Carbon Institute in 2003,” reflected Julian Darley, “and now it is vital that Celine and I devote more time to research, writing, and outreach. Although James Schlesinger said last year that the peakists had won and that in effect we were all Peak Oilists now, most people don’t yet know it! So in a sense, now is the time to intensify the mission of outreach and policy planning."

Added Julian, “Celine and I believe that Post Carbon Institute is well positioned with Asher Miller at the helm to take a leadership role in this heightened task of educating the public about our perilous energy predicament.”

“We are highly confident and proud of the team we have assembled and look forward to seeing Post Carbon Institute make a wider and deeper impact in the years ahead.” said Celine Rich.