The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released this week. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed...
Pennsylvania Gas Industry Attempts to Discredit Health Finding Based on Associations with PCI
A recent peer reviewed, NIH funded study published in Environmental Health Perspectives and authored by Joan Casey, PhD and Post Carbon Institute Fellow Brian S. Schwartz, M.D. of Johns Hopkins University — which found correlation between radon levels and...
Small increases in radon track natural gas development with fracking in Pennsylvania
By Joan A. Casey and Brian S. Schwartz Indoor radon levels in Pennsylvania have been slowly rising since 2004, around the time that unconventional natural gas development using hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) began in the state. In our new study...
Ten Years After
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released this week. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed book....
AFTERBURN: Richard Heinberg interview
Download Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed book. In 2003, his book “The Party’s Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies” turned Peak Oil from an insider worry to...
The Silver Lining in the California Drought
Deep into the California drought, possibly the worst in 1200 years, water from a property in Los Angeles flows down a residential street. Photo: Sandra Postel Denial, it’s been said, is not just a river in Egypt. It runs,...
The Anthropocene: It’s Not All About Us
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released this week. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed book. ...
Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released this week. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20% off your purchase of the printed...
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Part one of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Is modern society hitting our defining moment, the point of diminishing returns? In this short video, Richard Heinberg explores how — in our economy, the environment,...
Fingers in the dike
Richard’s new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels is released today. We’re running some of the essays from the book on PCI this week. To find out more about it see Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Post Carbon...