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Community Resilience

Providing information to help people and their communities weather the environmental, economic, and energy storms of the 21st century.

The Energy Transition

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable energy transition, and the role of energy in modern life.

Limits to Growth

Highlighting the impossibility of infinite economic growth on our finite planet, and offering ideas for "better" instead of bigger.

Resumen Ejecutivo: ¿Cuánto durará la revolución de las lutitas?

Este informe pretende cuantificar el impacto de los avances tecnológicos recientes en la producción...

How Long Will the Shale Revolution Last?: Technology versus Geology and the Lifecycle of Shale Plays

This report provides a realistic assessment of future production in the the top ten...

The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification

Available for order in hard-copy format! The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom...

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

by Matthieu Auzanneau Foreword by Richard Heinberg The story of oil is one of...

Why I Spent the Last 2 Years Writing a Book about Imagination

It was a quote by my late friend and mentor David Fleming that tipped me over into thinking that writing a book about imagination was something I needed to do. In ‘Lean Logic’, he wrote “if the mature...

Rob Hopkins’ new book and projects highlighted in The Guardian

Post Carbon Institute Fellow Rob Hopkins’ new book “From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want” and environmental projects are highlighted in this article by The Guardian. From the article: It’s not easy to be a happy environmentalist, but Rob Hopkins might have found a way. […]