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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.

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

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

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...

Shale Reality Check

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

The Human Predicament

We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? This is Nate Hagens' keynote address discussing the issues from The Resilience Gathering 2019.

Collins interviewed on ‘the New Gilded Age’ on Alternative Radio

Post Carbon Board member Chuck Collins was interviewed by David Barsamian on inequality and ‘the New Gilded Age’ on Alternative Radio. From the interview: We need to create a different better system, that has less inequality, that lives within the boundaries and constraints of earth, that broadens wealth and opportunity, that’s built on strong local […]