Post Carbon Institute

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Find insight and inspiration in a daily slate of articles about navigating a world with multiple emerging challenges on our news site, Resilience.

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Listen to humorous analysis of crazy-making topics on Crazy Town, and pithy conversations with author Vicki Robin on What Could Possibly Go Right?.

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Our popular online course provides a systems-thinking view of the complex environmental, social, and economic issues we face.

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Join us for online events with dynamic speakers as we explore how to build more equitable, sustainable, and resilient communities.

The Big Picture

The interrelated crises of the 21st century can’t be solved with simple technical adjustments. Understanding and responding to them intelligently requires us to think in terms of systems.

The Great Unraveling

Humanity is entering the Great Unraveling—a time which individual impacts are compounding to threaten the very environmental and social systems that support modern human civilization.

Shalom Shabazi in Tel Aviv, via Shutterstock

Community Resilience

A resilient community is one that can maintain its essential identity while adapting to change. Building community resilience is a critical response to the sustainability crises of the 21st century.

The Energy Transition

We can no longer ignore the ever-rising financial, social, and environmental costs of fossil fuels; nor can we ignore questions about what a truly renewable energy future will look like.

Limits to Growth

The sustainability challenges humanity faces are interrelated facets of one essential truth: the planet can not support ever-more economic growth and resource consumption.

Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown

This report 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.

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.

Shale Reality Check 2021

Fracking has boosted U.S. oil and gas production—but how long can it deliver? This assessment of U.S. government forecasts for tight oil and shale gas production finds them extremely optimistic and unlikely to be realized.

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

Power, Richard Heinberg's most ambitious book to date, explores how Homo sapiens—one species among millions—became powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth’s climate.

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