On a cool November Sunday the hall of the Little Lake Grange in Willits, CA, filled with members and supporters of WELL – Willits Economic Localization. 11 years earlier many of them had come to hear Richard Heinberg after...
Presentation to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting, December 17, 2015, San Francisco; Union Session on “Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does It Mean for Climate Change?” To view a video of this talk follow the instructions at...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article about the post COP system at Huffington Post. From the article: As the post COP party hangovers start to wear off people are recognising the momentous, perhaps paradigm...
The COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015 was the biggest international agreement on climate change since Kyoto. Now comes the hard part of cutting greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to keep global average temperature rise under 1.5 degrees...
COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition. We all know that the transition away from fossil fuels is key to maintaining a livable planet. Several...
From Richard Heinberg and entire staff & board of Post Carbon Institute We at Post Carbon Institute heard today with profound sadness of the sudden passing of Doug Tompkins—one of the world’s foremost conservationists and a great friend...
As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than the...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels was reviewed in an op-ed in The Republican. From the article: It’s no secret that contemporary civilization, in all its many aspects (factory assembly, transportation, construction, agriculture, trips...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over was quoted in this article on the Paris terror attacks. From the article: Yesterday I wrote an article, “The Hidden Causes of the Paris Killings And What We Can Do to...
As a child of the 1950s I grew up immersed in a near-universal expectation of progress. Everybody expected a shiny new future; the only thing that might have prevented us from having it was nuclear war, and thankfully that...