The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification

February 19, 2019

The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world. It is a much-needed reality check that explains why certain trends we take for granted–like the decline of rural areas and the dependence of farming and the food system on fossil fuels–are historical anomalies that

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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

November 6, 2018

by Matthieu Auzanneau Foreword by Richard Heinberg The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over....

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Shale Reality Check

David Hughes

February 4, 2018

Drilling into The U.S. Government’s Rosy Projections for Shale Gas & Tight Oil Production Through 2050.

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The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Richard Heinberg, Chuck Collins, Daniel Lerch, William Rees, Stephanie Mills, Joshua Farley, Asher Miller

September 11, 2017

Building resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.

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There’s No App for That

Richard Heinberg

August 8, 2017

Can technology solve the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and overpopulation?

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2016 Tight Oil Reality Check

David Hughes

December 12, 2016

Putting to the test government forecasts for domestic tight oil production.

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2016 Shale Gas Reality Check

David Hughes

December 12, 2016

Assessing the EIA's forecasts for U.S. shale gas production.

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Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

Richard Heinberg, David Fridley

June 2, 2016

The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by

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Eagle Ford Reality Check

David Hughes

December 16, 2015

The Nation’s Top Tight Oil Play After a Year of Low Oil Prices Oil production in the Eagle Ford Play of southern Texas, the largest tight oil play in the U.S., is now falling after more than a year of low oil prices—but it has proven more resilient than many observers expected. This paper reviews the

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Renewable energy after COP21

Richard Heinberg

December 14, 2015

The COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015 was the biggest international agreement on climate change since Kyoto. Now comes the hard part of cutting greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to keep global average temperature rise under 1.5 degrees Celsius. Many leaders in the environmental and philanthropic communities say the best way to

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