Richard Heinberg: Puerto Rico en un mundo en transición
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico. Recorded August 28th 2013. The video has a Spanish intro and then switiches to Richard presenting in English at 3:30 mins. Read Richard’s Puerto Rico trip report
Preface to the Romanian edition of Snake Oil
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future has been translated into Romanian! Here’s the preface Richard Heinberg wrote for that edition. ***In the United States, fracking is widely regarded as the biggest energy development in decades, a...
The Peak Oil Crisis: California’s Bubble Pops
There was an important study released by the Post Carbon Institute last week that gives us an insight into how long our great shale oil bonanza —or more likely, bubble— is going to last. As you might suspect, the...
Post Carbon Institute: The Next 10 Years
During the past decade Post Carbon Institute’s influence has grown markedly, thanks in no small part to all our supporters and allies. And we’re proud of the impressive list of accomplishments we’ve racked up (see this) in that time....
Richard Heinberg and Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty
Terrence McNally: Stories of a World That Might Just Work What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” of natural gas? Probably depends on who you’re listening to. The fossil fuel industry tells you it’s the biggest energy...
Heinberg on the Extraenvironmentalist
The Extraenvironmentalist Richard Heinberg updates us on the shale oil bubble and the implications of peak oil as we discuss Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard reflects on the timing of peak oil predictions and what...
10 Things We’re Grateful For
When you try to share the looming challenges with friends and family, do they sometimes say: “Enough about the problems, what are you going to do about it?” In the in the spirit of Thanksgiving and our 10th...
How Palm Oil in Everything From Food to Fuel Is Killing Orangutans and Exacerbating Climate Change
By Mike Gaworecki, Leslie Moyer – originally published at Alternet Palm oil. It’s the ubiquitous additive in everything from soaps and lotions to cookies and diet foods. It’s found in junk food like Cheez-Its, Tootsie Rolls, and M&Ms, but...
Top 10 Reader’s Favorites – Resilience and Energy Bulletin
One of the things that sets the Resilience.org/EnergyBulletin community apart is our passionate commitment and deep involvement. So what better way to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this community (and Post Carbon Institute) than by sharing the favorite reads...
Krugman Goes Splat
I was fairly amazed to read Paul Krugman’s latest op-ed in the New York Times, titled “A Permanent Slump?” He seemed to be coming remarkably close to saying what several of us have been trumpeting for the past few...