Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. With a wry, unflinching approach based on facts and realism, he exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and offers a vision for a truly sustainable future.

Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute in California, Heinberg is best known as a leading educator on Peak Oil and its impacts. His expertise, publications and teachings also cover other critical issues including the current economic crisis, food and agriculture, community resilience, and global climate change.

Author's Titles

The End of Growth

The End of Growth

Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg

Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record …

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Peak Everything

Peak Everything

Waking Up to the Century of Declines

by Richard Heinberg
foreword by James Howard Kunstler

The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human …

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Blackout

Blackout

Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

by Richard Heinberg

Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic …

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The Oil Depletion Protocol

The Oil Depletion Protocol

A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse

by Richard Heinberg

Since oil is the primary fuel of global industrial civilization, its imminent depletion is a problem that will have profound impact on every aspect …

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The Party's Over

The Party's Over

Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

by Richard Heinberg

The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if …

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Powerdown

Powerdown

Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

by Richard Heinberg

If the US continues with current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource …

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