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.

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?

2016 Tight Oil Reality Check

Putting to the test government forecasts for domestic tight oil production.

This is Part I of a 3-part essay that uses predation as a metaphor to unpack power relations in human societies. Introduction A lion runs down a gazelle; a raiding band brandishing clubs, bows, and arrows descends on...

Heinberg on choosing sides in Renewable Matter magazine

Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s column on moving from the economic growth to the ecological world view was published at Renewable Matter magazine. From the article: In every age a worldview arises that helps people make sense of their lives and their surroundings. During the brief fossil-fuelled industrial era, humanity adopted a worldview centred on […]