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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.
A live Q&A with Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth recorded on January 30th for Occupy Educated.
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 … >>
As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to play out? 1. … >>
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 … >>
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 talk at 100 Mile Press was reported in this article 'Heinberg’s serious message has silver lining'. From the article: The audience of 220 all stayed to hear there is a … >>
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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