Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will be speaking at the Economics of Happiness Conference, Port Townsend, WA. Join us to discuss, discover and devise better systems for now and the future. Get involved in a new project. Find...
Reposted with permission from Ecowatch. Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue. Over the past century-and-a-half, enormous amounts of cheap energy from fossil...
Sometimes the most heated debates are among people who almost agree. That seems to be the case with the recent Jacobson-Clack controversy, in which two groups of well-intentioned, renewable energy advocates bitterly spar over differing paths to a...
Technology has grown with us, side by side, since the dawn of human society. Each time that we've turned to it to solve a problem or make us more comfortable, we've been granted a solution. But it turns out that all of...
Like me, you might have a love-hate relationship with technology. I appreciate the conveniences and comforts it can afford, and I rely on it for my work. Heck, it’s how I’m communicating with you now. But I also wonder...
My most recent essay, in which I discussed a highly publicized controversy over the efficacy of plans for a comprehensive transition to an all-renewable energy future, garnered some strong responses. “If you are right,” one Facebook commenter opined, “we...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article on the NAFTA negotiations between the US and Canada. From the article: “Proportionality is “unique in all of the world’s treaties,” writes Richard Heinberg, a noted California energy expert....
Richard Heinberg joins Juliet Jacobs at BFM radio to discuss realistic avenues for transitioning to renewable energy, the environmental implications of economic growth, and how we can build more resiliency into the sustainability movement.
A heated debate in the pages of one of the country’s most renowned scientific journals has gained national attention. The debate is over whether a combination of wind, solar, and hydroelectricity could fully power the U.S. But both sides...
This is the second and final part of a recent conversation with Richard Heinberg by Greening the Apocalypse. Greening the Apocalypse is a weekly show on Melbourne’s Triple R 102.7FM. Listen to the first part here. First broadcast on 6 June 2017...