Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article about climate change and geoengineering. From the article Many environmentalists and scientists abhor the idea. Among their objections: It doesn’t address the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes...
I learned today of the passing of William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (1982), and Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse (2009). (For a biography of Catton, see Wikipedia ). I didn’t read Overshoot until around...
Nearly 17 years ago the modern peak oil movement began with the publication of “The End of Cheap Oil” by petroleum geologists Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère in the March, 1998 issue of Scientific American. Campbell coined the term “peak...
Download It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. With...
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Post Carbon Fellows Richard Heinberg, Janelle Orsi, and Michael Shuman will be taking part in the plenary session ‘New Structures for a New World’ at this year’s Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland. Explore the program
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article on President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech. From the article: Moving along to energy policy, Obama said: “We believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign...
Or, What I’ve Learned in 12 Years Writing about Energy (7000 words, about 25 minutes reading time) Folks who pay attention to energy and climate issues are regularly treated to two competing depictions of society’s energy options.* On one...
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A worldwide movement is emerging at the nexus of science, inspiration, and sustainability. Beliefs are secondary. What unites us is a pool of shared values and commitments—and the vision of a just and healthy future for humanity and the...
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed on the causes and effects of plummeting oil prices. From the interview: It’s mostly supply and demand, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that oil prices...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg will be the keynote speaker at this conference which will be gathering together some of the best thinkers on economic and population policies that could achieve a healthy balance of life in the Chesapeake Bay...