Afterburn video 3: Our Renewable Future
Part three of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Can we keep growing the economy and avoid diminishing returns by switching energy sources? The transition to renewable solar and wind technology is both...
One Colorado Town’s Answer to a Catch-22 of Water Conservation
Inefficient lawn irrigation is a common occurrence, and a big water waster, in western U.S. cities. Photo: Sandra Postel A few years ago, the town of Westminster, Colorado, just north of Denver, came eye-to-eye with an issue many water-conserving...
Afterburn video 2: The Great Burning
Part two of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. What will we do when the Great Burning comes to an end? In this short video, Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the...
The Purposely Confusing World of Energy Politics
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...
Extended Producer Responsibility Meets Extended Producer Opportunity
Multiple human-caused threats to the biosphere are the overarching challenge of our time. I’ve written before about the fundamentally different approaches of those who believe that solutions can be achieved within our capitalist economic system (for example, by designing products...
The Gross Society
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 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....