Post Carbon Institute

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.

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.

There’s No App for That

Can technology solve the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and overpopulation?

“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time...

Hughes op-ed on failing energy policy in Edmonton Journal

Post Carbon Fellow David J. Hughes’ op-ed on falling energy royalties and pipeline politics was published in the Edmonton Journal. From the article: Data from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers show that royalties paid by industry fell 44 per cent between 2000 and 2017 — from $11.9 billion to $6.6 billion — a period […]