The following essay was written at the invitation of the curators, Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, for the catalog of the current special exhibit at the Istanbul Modern art gallery, Till It’s Gone: An Exhibition on Nature and Sustainability. The...
A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase. Natural gas fracking is the apparent culprit. This finding should be (though...
Carbon taxes constitute a widely discussed policy tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing humanity’s headlong rush toward catastrophic climate change. Taxing energy from fossil fuels makes that energy more expensive, thereby making renewable energy comparatively cheaper. There...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg discusses PCI’s work in an interview on the Vorwaarts! show of Dutch radio station Redactie Radio Centraal. Part 1 Download Part 2 Download
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article looking at the prospects for ‘clean’ coal. From the article: Richard Heinberg at the Post-Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, California dismissed the environmental merits of CCS on coal plants....
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg will be speaking at the Xeriscape Council of New Mexico’s Land & Water Summit 2016.
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed on RT following the lifting of international sanctions on Iran. From the article: Everyone is expecting Iran to up its oil production as a result of the lifting the sanctions. I think...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s contribution to the Instanbul Museum of Modern Art TILL IT’s GONE exhibition is acknowledged in this description of the event at e-flux. From the article: The bilingual (Turkish/English) exhibition catalogue includes three new essays...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s recent talk at the Vermont Natural Resources Council was reviewed in this op-ed in the Rutland Herald. From the article: My husband and I recently had the pleasure of hosting a Vermont Natural Resources Council...
Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another. To explain why, it’s helpful to...