Conversations with Great Minds: Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg interviewed on RT’s Great Minds August 1st, 2014.
New Russia Sanctions: Washington, Delusional About US Energy Capacity, Lashes Out
Vladimir Putin image via Frederic Legrand / Shutterstock.com The New York Times reports that “The United States and Europe kicked off a joint effort on Tuesday intended to curb Russia’s long-term ability to develop new oil resources.” The new...
Two Realities
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost Our contemporary world is host to two coexisting but fundamentally different—and, in at least one...
Bottom Up, Top Down
Those of us who have some grasp of the urgent dilemmas posed by climate change and peak oil face a terrible conundrum. The whole system of industrial civilization is moving toward collapse. How can we reverse course to avert...
Heinberg on peak oil and options for energy transition at RT
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed on peak oil and energy transition options at RT. Watch the interview:
Want to Change the World? Read This First
History is often made by strong personalities wielding bold new political, economic, or religious doctrines. Yet any serious effort to understand how and why societies change requires examination not just of leaders and ideas, but also of environmental circumstances....
Spring of Sustainability – Our Energy Reality
Credit: Spring of Sustainability | Download A teleseminar with Richard Heinberg: Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author, & Ken White: Associate Director of the Post Carbon Institute. This interview is part of the Spring of Sustainability, a global tele series where...
IEA Says the Party’s Over
The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report called “World Energy Investment Outlook” that should send policy makers screaming and running for the exits—if they are willing to read between the lines and view the report...
Heinberg interviewed at Eurozine
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed by Eurozine magazine. From the interview: AS: How is the infatuation with economic growth related to ideas of progress and the power of science that came into being with the Enlightenment project...
Melting of Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstoppable, Will Raise Sea Levels Worldwide
Credit: Between The Lines | Download Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Richard Heinberg, senior fellow-in-residence at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 11 books on energy and the environment. Here he discusses the recent reports on melting ice in...