Only Less Will Do
When I’m not writing books or essays on environmental issues, or sleeping or eating, you’re likely to find me playing the violin. This has been an obsessive activity for me since I was a boy, and seems to deliver...
Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future
Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there. Richard is the author of eleven books including: – Afterburn (April 2015) – Snake Oil (July 2013) – The End of Growth (August 2011) – Peak Everything: Waking...
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume...
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or...
Heinberg quoted in SJ Mercury News on geoengineering
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted on the dangers of geoengineering in this article in the San Jose Mercury News. From the article: “Research into geoengineering is a distraction from the hard work of reducing carbon emissions,” said...
Heinberg quoted in Washington Post article on geoengineering
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article about climate change and geoengineering. From the article Many environmentalists and scientists abhor the idea. Among their objections: It doesn’t address the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes...
Thanks, Bill.
I learned today of the passing of William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (1982), and Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse (2009). (For a biography of Catton, see Wikipedia ). I didn’t read Overshoot until around...
After the Peak
Nearly 17 years ago the modern peak oil movement began with the publication of “The End of Cheap Oil” by petroleum geologists Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère in the March, 1998 issue of Scientific American. Campbell coined the term “peak...
The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Download It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. With...
The Economics of Happiness Conference 2015
Janelle Orsi Michael Shuman Richard Heinberg
Post Carbon Fellows Richard Heinberg, Janelle Orsi, and Michael Shuman will be taking part in the plenary session ‘New Structures for a New World’ at this year’s Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland. Explore the program