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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.

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...

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

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

Shale Reality Check

Drilling into The U.S. Government’s Rosy Projections for Shale Gas & Tight Oil Production...

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

Building resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.

Our modern industrial economy traces a straight line from resource extraction to manufacturing to sales to waste disposal. Since Earth has finite resources and limited ability to absorb pollution, the straight-line economy is unsustainable; it is designed for eventual...

Hughes Edmonton Journal op-ed on pipeline ads

Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes op-ed on the the Alberta government’s ad campaign for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was published in the Edmonton Journal. From the article: A third ad tells us: “The Trans Mountain Pipeline will generate billions in revenue to fund innovation and clean technology, speeding our country’s transition to a greener […]