Post Carbon Institute

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Find insight and inspiration in a daily slate of articles about navigating a world with multiple emerging challenges on our news site, Resilience.

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Listen to humorous analysis of crazy-making topics on Crazy Town, and pithy conversations with author Vicki Robin on What Could Possibly Go Right?.

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Our popular online course provides a systems-thinking view of the complex environmental, social, and economic issues we face.

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Community Resilience

Providing information to help people and their communities weather the environmental, economic, and energy...

The Energy Transition

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable...

Limits to Growth

Highlighting the impossibility of infinite economic growth on our finite planet, and offering ideas...

Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Food, Transportation and Education in a Post-Carbon Society

Renewable energies will not save our always-on, constantly growing, high-energy economy. But many aspects of contemporary technology, plus lessons from our long history, can help us in the "sufficient economy" of the future.

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

Power, Richard Heinberg's most ambitious book to date, explores how Homo sapiens—one species among millions—became powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth’s climate.

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

The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world. It is a much-needed reality check that explains why certain trends we take for granted are historical anomalies.

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.

Leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.