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Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books including:
He is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as The Ecologist, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, Pacific Ecologist, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, TheOilDrum.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.
He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour, and is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education.
More information about Richard can be found on his website.
The evidence indicates that we've hit the limits to growth (as we know it).
Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg relates the fundamentals of energy supply scarcity and how the economic markets will react.
One hundred days of grim headlines, of horrid pictures and of politicians scrambling to look angry and concerned. One hundred days since an explosion on an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed eleven workers and ripped a hole in an oil well 5,000 feet beneath the sea surface. At its worst, the leak was spewing out 19,000 barrels of crude a day.
Symbols matter. When Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1979, they weren’t today’s efficient electricity-generating PV panels (they produced only hot water) and the goal wasn’t to make 1600 … >>
YOU Can Be a BILLIONAIRE Without Even Trying! Five Ways to Profit BIG from Global Collapse (Author’s note: This is the Introduction to an inspirational / financial-advice / environmental / diet / … >>
EXCERPT: The underlying premise of the book (The Post Carbon Reader) is irrefutable: At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real limits of a planet with finite natural … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed for this show on 'The consequences of oil dependence' on Swiss Radio channel SR DRS. Listen to the interview (in German) >>
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben and Executive Director Asher Miller discuss Bill's new book Eaarth, and the 350.org campaign.
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