The following is Part 4 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5 Are we...
The following is Part 3 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5 Setting aside...
The following is Part 2 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Will increasing...
Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Many of the readers of postcarbon.org, Energy Bulletin, and now Resilience.org, have come to share a certain view of the world. It’s probably fair to say that, as a group, we see...
In his November 14 press conference president Obama made a few brief comments about global warming: “There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices...
Enjoy this satirical look at the politics of energy by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. CDN News, October 25 (Washington, DC) At a hastily organized news conference, president Obama this morning called for a new national effort to restore...
For the past three or four years media sources in the U.S. trumpeted the “game-changing” new stream of natural gas coming from tight shale deposits produced with the technologies of horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing. So much gas surged from...
Diminishing Returns. Of the three phases of the industrial period (coal/steam/railroads, 1800-1930; oil/electrification/automobiles, 1930-1980; and computers/cell phones/Internet, 1980-present), the second yielded the lion’s share of growth. By the 1980s, electrification and car-buying had reached a point of diminishing returns in...
Credit: Radio New Zealand | Download Richard Heinberg talks about the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, and The End of Growth.
Credit: Fuzzy Logic Science | Download Richard Heinberg presents on The End of Growth. Recorded in Canberra, 21 Sept.