Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s latest book AFTERBURN was referenced in this article by Fred Kirschenmann at In These Times. From the article: Numerous authors advise us to quickly and radically begin making a transition from unlimited economic growth,...
Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a...
Scientists at the Climate/Energy Design and Research institute (CEDAR) have just announced the discovery of an astounding new energy source that promises to solve several of humanity’s thorniest dilemmas at once. “This is a paradigm-shifting moment,” says Dawn O’Newday,...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg will be speaking at Community Action 2015: Empowering Families – Transforming Communities.
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s latest book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels was reviewed on the sustainability blog at Mount Shasta News. From the article: Heinberg asserts convincingly that it is time we work to create a truly local...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels was reviewed at Street Roots News. From the review: Richard Heinberg’s “Afterburn” — despite being a collection of talks and essays — lays out in lucid, reasonable and...
I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both enlightening...
As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we...
This could be big. Religious and ethical impulses are powerful shapers of human behavior. That’s why, here in the US, corporate leaders long ago found ways to use religion to promote the notions that extreme economic inequality is perfectly...
Post Carbon Fellow Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was featured in this article in the North Bay Bohemian. From the article: “I’m a cheerleader for local and all in favor of local solutions to economic problems,” he says. “We need...