In recent years, policy think tanks have increasingly adopted the term "polycrisis" to signify humanity’s destabilized status quo. It has been defined as “a cluster of interdependent global risks [that] create a compounding effect, such that their overall impact exceeds the sum of their individual parts.”

Welcome to the Great Unraveling seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the polycrisis, the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.

Power, Richard Heinberg’s most ambitious book to date, traces how humans have come to overpower the earth’s natural systems and oppress one another…with catastrophic implications.

Humanity must act quickly to prevent environmental and economic collapse. Power lays the groundwork to understand what we’ve done and how to fix it.

The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world. It is a much-needed reality check that explains why certain trends we take for granted–like the dependence of the food system on fossil fuels–are historical anomalies that will reverse over the coming decades.

A biologist and farmer, author Jason Bradford offers a deeply researched report on the future of food that reveals key blind spots in conventional wisdom on energy, technology, and demographics.

The fifteen-report "Shale Bubble" report series by J. David Hughes critically assessed the viability of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) tight oil and shale gas forecasts in its Annual Energy Outlook reports, from 2015 to 2021. Year after year, David Hughes' detailed analysis found the EIA’s forecasts of oil and gas production to be indefensibly optimistic. 

The Shale Bubble reports formed the core of Post Carbon Institute's "Busting the Shale Hype" program of reports, videos, consultations, and media appearances.

National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level.

The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; that resilience requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that resilience starts and ends with the people living in a community.

The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power.

Our Renewable Future explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the shift to renewable energy. It is a clear-eyed and urgent guide to this transformation, and a crucial resource for policymakers and energy activists.