MuseLetter #295 / December 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) During this time of increasing political polarization and hostility, take some time this holiday season to be especially kind to the people around you. May we all prosper in the year ahead! Best wishes, Richard Localism in the Age […]

MuseLetter #294 / November 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 272 KB) First up this month is an article looking at President-Elect Donald Trump’s big promise to power the US on ‘clean coal’. Next is a piece I wrote shortly before the election which looks at the crisis of political legitimacy. […]

MuseLetter #292 / September 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but everybody does it. As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, […]

MuseLetter #291 / August 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 236 KB) This month’s Museletter begins with an edited excerpt of an article I wrote for Pacific Standard Magazine called ‘Is the Oil Industry Dying?’ which looks at the current state of the oil industry and how that relates back to […]

MuseLetter #288 / May 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 292 KB) First up in this month’s Museletter is a satirical take on Donald Trump’s stance on climate change – a humorous slant on a serious matter. Also included is an excerpt from a chapter I wrote on energy constraints to […]

MuseLetter #287 / April 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 97 KB) This month’s MuseLetter comes in two parts. First up is my appreciation of peak oil visionary M. King Hubbert, who is the subject of a recently released biography. Following that is a recent interview I gave on electric cars […]

MuseLetter #286 / March 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 221 KB) This month’s MuseLetter is in two parts. The first is an essay which I wrote recently for Yes! Magazine, “100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years,” in which I take a pragmatic look at what energy […]

MuseLetter #285 / February 2016 by Richard Heinbergbr> Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 109 KB) This month’s Museletter brings together two essays. The first, written for an exhibition on Nature and Sustainability in Istanbul, asks the big question ‘what is sustainability’ and how might we get there? The second is my response to a […]

MuseLetter #284 / January 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 99 KB) Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another. To explain why, it’s helpful to […]

MuseLetter #283 / December 2015 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 180 KB) The last Museletter of this year contains two essays. The first essay, Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?, was written during the Paris climate talks which have just finished to much fanfare. World leaders have agreed […]

MuseLetter #282 / November 2015 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) As a child of the 1950s I grew up immersed in a near-universal expectation of progress. Everybody expected a shiny new future; the only thing that might have prevented us from having it was nuclear war, and thankfully that […]