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.

Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By...

Eagle Ford Reality Check

The Nation’s Top Tight Oil Play After a Year of Low Oil Prices Oil production...

Renewable energy after COP21

The COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015 was the biggest international agreement on...

Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience

Efforts to build community resilience often focus on growing the capacity to “bounce back”...

New Report Knocks Down Pro-Pipelines ‘Fantasies’

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee. Politicians who advocate for more bitumen pipelines and LNG exports are making a “have your cake and eat it too argument” because there is no way Canada can meet its climate change commitments...

Hughes interviewed on CBC on oil sands and climate report

Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was interviewed about his new report Can Canada Expand Oil and Gas Production, Build Pipelines and Keep Its Climate Change Commitments? on CBC. From the article: Even with provincial climate plans in place, anticipated growth in Alberta’s oilsands and British Columbia’s natural gas sector will make it nearly impossible for […]