fellows

Richard Heinberg

Senior Fellow-in-Residence

Climate, Communities, Economics, Energy, Food & Agriculture

Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books including:

  • Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009)
  • Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007)
  • The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006)
  • Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004)
  • The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003)

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.

videos

Heinberg: Beyond Copenhagen

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Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?

As headlines proclaim that COP15 was a 'catastrophe,' that a global climate deal is 'all but impossible in 2010,' and progressive NGOs,' "The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army," according to one diplomat, Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute, talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other 'game ending' challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy. Interviewed by EON's James Heddle.

audio

Blackout - Richard Heinberg Interview

length: 19:00   credit: Radio Ecoshockdownload

Interview with Peak Oil expert Richard Heinberg on his new book Blackout: Coal, Climate Change, and the Last Energy Crisis

Latest Publications

Just Tell Us The Truth

Richard Heinberg    Nov 10, 2009   

At last we know...sort of. An article in the UK newspaper The Guardian for November 9, titled “Key Oil Figures Were Distorted by US Pressure, Says Whistleblower,” reveals what hundreds of analysts have been trying … >>

China or the U.S.: Which Will Be the Last Nation Standing?

Richard Heinberg    Feb 03, 2010   

Silly me. Here I had thought that world leaders would want to keep their nations from collapsing. They must be working hard to prevent currency collapse, financial system collapse, food system collapse, social collapse, … >>

The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a Post Carbon Food System

Richard Heinberg    Mar 30, 2009   

How can we continue feeding humanity in a future of declining resources and environmental crisis? This report explores the growing vulnerabilities of the current food system, and the steps needed to transition to a post-carbon … >>

Blackout

Richard Heinberg

Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity. Coal … >>

press coverage

Heinberg and PCIs Food & Farming Transition report in St Louis Magazine

Richard Heinberg  

Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed for this piece about local food initiatives in the October edition of the St Louis Magazine. The article features Post Carbon's report The Food and Farming Transition: … >>