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...
Afterburn video 1: 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, and...
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...
Richard Heinberg talks about Afterburn
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed about his new book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels for the Hal Ginsberg Morning Show on Radio Monterey. In the interview Richard talks about how we are living in an era that...
Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology
The press has been all abuzz the past few weeks speculating on what the drop in oil prices will mean for U.S. shale oil (tight oil) production. Pundits have been falling over themselves quoting various estimates of the breakeven...
Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
The advent of fossil fuels changed the world profoundly (giving us everything from plastics and automobiles to global warming); the inevitable and rapidly approaching end of the oil-coal-and-gas era will likewise bring overwhelming transformation in its wake. My new...
Goldilocks Is Dead
Five years ago I wrote an article for Reuters titled “Goldilocks and the Three Fuels.” In it, I discussed what I call the Goldilocks price zone for oil, natural gas, and coal, a zone in which prices are “just...