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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.
Richard Heinberg is interviewed about oil price volatility and peak oil in the light of the Gulf of Mexico drilling disaster.
As America adjusts to the New Reality of tight credit, chronically less-affordable energy, high unemployment rates, rising levels of homelessness, and steeply declining tax revenues, new strategies will be needed to help … >>
Note: Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines will be released in paperback this month (September) by New Society Publishers. In titling this book “Peak Everything,” I was suggesting that … >>
EXCERPT: The underlying premise of the classic book The Limits to Growth is irrefutable: At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real limits of a planet with finite … >>
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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