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Richard Heinberg is the author of ten 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 Nature, 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.
Mike Grenville of Transition Forest Row, interviews Richard Heinberg on Permaculture and it's relationship with The End of Growth.
In his latest book is The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard makes a compelling argument that the global economy has reached a fateful turning point. He proposes that we can continue to thrive if we maximize happiness rather than the pursuit of growth at any cost.
Fossil fuels have powered human growth and ingenuity for centuries. Now that we're reaching the end of cheap and abundant oil and coal supplies, we're in for an exciting ride. While there's a real risk that we'll fall off a … >>
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. It’s an opportunity to interact with the audience, and to see where my presentation … >>
EXCERPT: As a contribution to this ongoing refinement of the concept, I recently formulated five axioms (self-evident truths) of sustainability. My goal was simply to distill ideas that had been proposed previously and … >>
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: … >>
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg's book The End of Growth was reviewed at Fisher Investments MarketMinder. From the review: As the name implies, The End of Growth argues aggregate global economic growth … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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