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.

Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

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

Perforando Más y Más – Resumen Ejecutivo

This is a Spanish translation of the Executive Summary of Post Carbon Institute's report...

Le Climat Après La Croissance

This is a French translation of Post Carbon Institute’s report Climate After Growth La...

Drilling Deeper

Drilling Deeper analyzes actual production data from the top 12 shale gas and tight...

Greece Diary

I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both...

Shuman praised at VTDigger

Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s book Local Dollars, Local Sense was praised in this article at VTDigger. From the article: Spearheading the growing national movement toward local business generation is the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, which held its annual meeting in Burlington in 2006), the American Independent Business Alliance, and the Schumacher […]