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.
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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 on BBC One Planet
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.
On this week's One Planet we get the latest from Louisiana from our environment correspondent David Shukman. Mike then debates the future of global energy production with a panel of guests - three people with very different takes on the BP disaster. Author Richard Heinberg explains why he's keen to see this incident act as a wake up call for America to wean itself off oil; Thomas Pyle from the Institute for Energy Research fears a knee jerk reaction from law makers that will overburden the industry with regulation; and Mike's also joined by Sarah Emerson, president of Energy Security Analysis, who suspects the incident will be forgotten about by those in Washington come Christmas.