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...
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...
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...
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...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s article on the end of the ‘goldilocks’ oil price was published as an op-ed at Reuters. From the article: Five years ago, I wrote an article for Reuters titled “Goldilocks and the Three Fuels.”...
When I’m not writing books or essays on environmental issues, or sleeping or eating, you’re likely to find me playing the violin. This has been an obsessive activity for me since I was a boy, and seems to deliver...
Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there. Richard is the author of eleven books including: – Afterburn (April 2015) – Snake Oil (July 2013) – The End of Growth (August 2011) – Peak Everything: Waking...
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume...
In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted on the dangers of geoengineering in this article in the San Jose Mercury News. From the article: “Research into geoengineering is a distraction from the hard work of reducing carbon emissions,” said...