01. Jan, 2010 
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Author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and Blackout, Richard Heinberg 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, Richard exposes the tenuousness of our current [...]
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01. Dec, 2009 0 Comments
For over eighteen years, Richard Heinberg’s Museletter has offered a monthly exploration of current events and the world of ideas. Covering such topics as geopolitics, energy depletion, civilization and its unintended consequences, economics from a contrarian perspective, and suggestions for how to weather the coming energy and economic transition, Richard’s essays are [...]
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12. Nov, 2009 1 Comment
In Searching for a Miracle: ‘Net Energy’ Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society, Richard Heinberg examines 18 energy sources by their “net energy” and nine other criteria. Published jointly by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on Globalization, the report is intended as a non-technical examination of a basic question: [...]
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02. Jul, 2010 Comments Off
MuseLetter #218 / July 2010 by Richard Heinberg
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This month’s Museletter is a collection of three pieces. The first two examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The third is a tongue in cheek look at industry responses to peak oil.
Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, Best-case, and Most-Likely [...]
01. Jun, 2010 0 Comments
MuseLetter #217 / June 2010 by Richard Heinberg
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Following the failure of the latest efforts to plug the gushing leak from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and amid warnings that oil could continue to flow for another two months or more, perhaps it’s a [...]
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04. May, 2010 0 Comments
MuseLetter #216 / May 2010 by Richard Heinberg
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The conventional wisdom in energy-and-environment circles is that China’s economy, which is growing at a rate of eight percent or more per year, is mostly coal powered today and will continue to be so for decades to come. Coal is [...]
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