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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, is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan's International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
More information about Richard can be found on his website.
Richard Heinberg presenting at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Sydney Opera House. Recorded September 2012.
From Richard's speech at The New Economics Institute Conference June 2012 - Strategies for a New Economy.
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg gave this interview in May 2013 as part of the Spring of Sustainability Teleseminar Series .
HELP US EXPOSE BIG OIL'S LIES & QUITE POSSIBLY SAVE THE WORLD. The oil & gas industry is lying to you. And the consequences of these lies affect you and everyone you know. These consequences aren't esoteric, or … >>
The following excerpt is reprinted from the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, published by Post Carbon … >>
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 … >>
Edited by Tom Butler, Daniel Lerch, and George Wuerthner. What magic, or monster, lurks behind the light switch and the gas pump? Where does the seemingly limitless energy that fuels modern society come from? From … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was one of the guests on NPR's On Point. During the discussion of American energy Richard reminded listeners of the urgent imperative to get off fossil fuels in order to avoid unabated … >>
Yes, there's still oil in the ground. We just can't afford it. In broad terms, the peak oil analysts were right. But the fossil fuel industry is winning the PR battle.
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