Post Carbon Fellow Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was featured in this article in the North Bay Bohemian.

From the article:

“I’m a cheerleader for local and all in favor of local solutions to economic problems,” he says. “We need to reverse the trend toward the global civilization that creates instability and imbalance, and that wreaks havoc with communities everywhere.”

Heinberg offers suggestions for local consumers: take your money out of big banks and deposit it in credit unions; buy at food co-ops; vote with pocketbooks; and push for local power apart from PG&E.

He also urges political activism. “Citizens should tell their representatives to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] that was negotiated in secret and that’s meant to increase the volume of international trade at the expense of local businesses and local economies,” he says. “One provision of the TPP says that if municipal governments promote local over imported, the importers can sue for lost profits.”