In Conversation: Food After Fossil Fuels
While its slice of the overall energy pie may seem relatively low, the modern American food system is figuratively awash in fossil fuels. On average, roughly 12 calories of (mostly fossil fuel) energy go into producing just one calorie...
For Better or For Worse
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
Author Richard Heinberg on new book Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy on Radio Ecoshock. Plus plankton expert Dr. Michael Behrenfeld: is the foundation of ocean life in trouble? Radio Ecoshock 160629 Download...
The EU Wants to Block Romania’s 51% Local Food Shift. Who Cares?
Amid all the mayhem and turmoil of recent weeks, here’s a news story you may have missed. The Romanian parliament unanimously passed an amendment to the country’s “Law on the Sale of Food Products” bill which states that every...
Our Renewable Future at the GGNRA Sustainability Summit
This talk by Post Carbon Fellow Senior Richard Heinberg was recorded at the GGNRA Sustainability Summit on April 20th, 2016. Use discount code 4RENEW for 20% off your purchase of the printed book.
Tony Blair, Godzilla, and the Banquet of Consequences.
Image via U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson. Creative Commons. In February 2003, in Dublin, I marched against the impending Iraq War alongside 100,000 other people. Similar protests took place around the world that day,...
Lessons Along the Path to 100 Percent Clean Energy
In early May of this year, Portugal ran on renewable electricity alone for four consecutive days. And later that same month, on May 15, Germany filled almost all its electricity needs with solar, wind, and hydro power. This is good news: it tells...
In Conversation: Consumerism After Fossil Fuels
The creation of the consumer economy—a complex, interconnected system of institutions, goals, rewards, and punishments—was one of the great social projects of the twentieth century, when energy was cheaply abundant and two of our chief economic problems were overproduction...
This #ProgrExit Starts with your Longing
Nobody knows what the Brexit vote will mean for the UK. People are reeling after a campaign marked by very poor quality debate, some deeply dangerous and divisive framing, a decision many didn’t really understand and an election where...
Our Renewable Future Event – video
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
Post Carbon Fellows David Fridley and Richard Heinberg, co-authors of Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy explore the future of clean energy and how a fully renewable energy supply will shape our lives...
Tiptoeing Through the Renewable Energy Minefield
I spent the last year working with co-author David Fridley and Post Carbon Institute staff on a just-published book, Our Renewable Future. The process was a pleasure: everyone involved (including the twenty or so experts we interviewed or consulted)...