Post Carbon Institute

Building Resilience

Engaging cutting-edge innovators, on-the-ground early adopters. local and national activists, and key thought leaders to build community resilience in response to the 21st Century's sustainability crises.

Our Energy Reality

Utilizing books, reports, images and art, videos, and websites to build energy literacy, shift the public conversation around energy, and promote wise energy policies.

Busting the Shale Hype

Using in-depth analysis, reports, media outreach, and creative communications to counter the dangerous myth that shale gas and tight oil can solve our energy woes.

Tight Oil Reality Check

In this update to Drilling Deeper, David Hughes explores how the EIA’s 2015 tight...

Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense

A growing local economy movement is putting down roots in the United States and...

Shale Gas Reality Check

In this update to Drilling Deeper, David Hughes explores how the EIA’s 2015 shale...

Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we...

Groundbreaking State Law Tested in Colorado Headwaters Stream

During low-flow conditions, a pilot project will leave more water in this reach of Willow Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River near Granby, Colorado, to benefit habitat and fish populations. Photo: Geoff Elliott/Grand Environmental Services. By Sandra...

Heinberg and AFTERBURN referenced in In These Times

Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s latest book AFTERBURN was referenced in this article by Fred Kirschenmann at In These Times. From the article: Numerous authors advise us to quickly and radically begin making a transition from unlimited economic growth, and unlimited human population growth, to an alternative paradigm that acknowledges our dependence on the “health” […]