Pope Francis Rides an Encyclical
This could be big. Religious and ethical impulses are powerful shapers of human behavior. That’s why, here in the US, corporate leaders long ago found ways to use religion to promote the notions that extreme economic inequality is perfectly...
Richard Heinberg interviewed on the inevitable transition to a renewable energy future
Richard Heinberg joins Diane Horn, host of the Sustainability Segment, Mind Over Matters to talk about the themes of his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Download Originally broadcast on KEXP Seattle. Use Discount Code PCI2015...
Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth
The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs....
New U.S. Water Rule is Crucial for Clean Drinking Water and Resilience to Droughts and Floods
An aerial view of the Prairie Pothole Region, near Wing, North Dakota. A new U.S. clean water rule protects prairie potholes and other freshwater ecosystems. Credit: Jim Ringelman, Ducks Unlimited/courtesy US Department of Agriculture. It took nearly a decade,...
BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds
Analyst David Hughes offers another challenge to the province’s nascent industry. By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee. A new report on liquefied natural gas prospects for British Columbia challenges government claims that gas exports will lower greenhouse gas emissions, or...
Review: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels By Richard Heinberg 205 pp. New Society Publishers – Apr. 2015. $18.95. Review by Frank Kaminski, originally published at Mud City Press Richard Heinberg’s studies into energy resources began with one of the grand,...
The IMF Tells a Half-Truth
On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading: most readers, when they see the word subsidy, probably tend to think of tax breaks...
Can an Olympics Fight Inequality?
As someone concerned about inequality, what would it take for you to support the Olympics in Boston in 2024?” That is the question that journalist Neil Swidey asked me for his article that appears today in the...
AFTERBURN: Living in a Post Carbon World
Download Our guest was Richard Heinberg, author of Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (New Society, 2015). The book is a collection of his essays and addresses, and we spoke with him about a range of topics, including fracking and peak...
AFTERBURN interview
Download An extended interview with Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg about his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. View the related Afterburn video series Interview by Greg Moffitt, Legalise Freedom Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20%...