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Museletter #356: The Final Doubling

MuseLetter #356 / November 2022 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This month’s Museletter begins with a tribute to Herman Daly, the father of ecological economics. Also included are the first two parts of a trilogy written for Independent Media Institute on the renewable energy transition. The Final Doubling This essay is dedicated to […]

Museletter #348: The Limits to Growth at 50

MuseLetter #348 / February 2022 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality A half-century ago, the worlds of science, public policy, and economics were rocked by a prominent book, The Limits to Growth, authored by four systems scientists (Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, […]

Museletter #346: The End of Growth: Ten Years After

MuseLetter #346 / December 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear Reader, This Month’s edition consists of two essays—“The End of Growth: Ten Years After” and “Energy Reality for the USA.” As we approach the solstice, and the beginning of a new year, I wish you more opportunities to enjoy the beauty of […]

Museletter #341: America’s (Likely) Violent Future

MuseLetter #341 / July 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version A little over a year ago I wrote an essay titled The United States: An Obituary. It was the tail end of the Trump regime and the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic; dread was in the air, and I thought it […]

Museletter #289: Introducing Our Renewable Future

MuseLetter #289 / June 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 340 KB) The first item in this month’s Museletter is the introduction to my new book Our Renewable Future:Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy, co-authored with David Fridley. Get a copy of the book with a 20% discount […]

Museletter 281: Unconventional Energy

MuseLetter #281 / October 2015 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 92 KB) Interview with Spanish website FUHEM Ecosocial “This economic system cannot be sustained, and the longer we cling to it, the worse and fewer our options will be as it fails.” FUHEM Ecosocial: Oil and gas extracted by fracking from […]

Living in the Anthropocene?

Interview with Alex Wise at Sea Change Radio Your browser does not support this audio format. Download audio There’s a scientific debate afoot in geological and environmental circles about what to call the current time period. According to the International Union of Geological Sciences, we’re living in the Holocene epoch, but many believe that the […]

Museletter 259: Snake Oil and the End of Growth

MuseLetter #259 / December 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 117 KB) The last newsletter of 2013 brings together an essay, an interview, and a blog post, all with the common theme of the intersection between economic growth and energy. Thank you for your support in 2013, and my very best […]

Museletter 248: A Theory of Change for a Century of Crisis

MuseLetter #248 / January 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 101 KB) This first Museletter of 2013 is in two parts. First up is the conclusion of the address which I gave to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change in November. Second are musings on the very topical […]

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Since 1992, Richard Heinberg’s Museletter has offered a monthly exploration of current events and the world of  ideas. It has covered 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 informed by a […]

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