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		<title>Museletter 252: Big Energy&#8217;s Misleading Promise of Plenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #252 / May 2013 by Richard Heinberg Hi readers, This month has been a rush of deadlines as I work to complete the final chapters of my new book &#8216;SNAKE OIL! How Big Energy’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future&#8217;. This being the case I have no new writing to offer you this month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 251: There&#8217;s Only One Real Option for Averting Economic and Ecological Ruin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #251 / April 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 102 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is made up of a an essay I wrote for the book &#8216;Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth&#8217;. In addition I&#8217;ve included a link to a short video update about my forthcoming &#8216;Snake oil&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me write my next book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #250 / March 2013 by Richard Heinberg Hi, I&#8217;m busy working on my next book titled SNAKE OIL! How Big Energy&#8217;s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and would really appreciate your participation. The book is going to debunk big energy&#8217;s misleading promise of plenty, by presenting the facts of our energy predicament. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 249: Deficit Reduction = Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #249 / February 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 87 KB) Dear Readers, MuseLetter for February offers pretty slim pickings (see below). Why so little, so late? Well, I’m working on a new book. I’ll have more to tell you about that next month! Best wishes, Richard   Deficit Reduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 248: A Theory of Change for a Century of Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 247: Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #247 / December 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comes from an address which I gave to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change in November. Part two &#8216;A theory of change for a century of crisis&#8217; will appear in January&#8217;s Museletter. Conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fossil Food &amp; Agriculture &#8211; Richard Heinberg Q&amp;A</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian&#8217;s questions and Richard&#8217;s brief responses. We think they make for a nice primer of sorts.&#160; Rhian: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #246: Gas Bubble Leaking, About to Burst</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #246 / November 2012 by Richard Heinberg The US Presidential election campaign served up much in the way of promises but worryingly little in the way of energy and climate reality. For this month&#39;s Museletter I&#39;ve included three pieces I wrote as the campaign wrapped up &#8212; the last of the three is intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Ideas: The End of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg presents at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Sydney Opera House. Recorded September 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #245: Australia, Meet the Post-Growth Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #245 / October 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 94KB) I&#8217;ve spent most of the past month touring Australia and New Zealand, giving over a dozen lectures in about as many cities. This month&#8217;s MuseLetter includes two op-eds from that tour. First is a submission to the Sydney Morning Herald, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #244: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #244 / September 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) With Arctic ice at record lows the impact of climate change is becoming increasingly clear. This month&#8217;s lead article looks at the case for building resilience in the face of the coming changes. Part 2 brings you the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T WORRY, DRIVE ON: Fossil Fools &amp; Fracking Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months we&#8217;ve seen a spate of assertions that peak oil is a worry of the past thanks to so-called &#8220;new technologies&#8221; that can tap massive amounts of previously inaccessible stores of &#8220;unconventional&#8221; oil. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, drive on,&#8221; we&#8217;re told. We can fall for the oil industry hype and keep ourselves chained to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #243: Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #243 / August 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 116 KB) August&#8217;s newsletter brings together a new essay on facing the challenges of evolutionary success, and a preview of the script of a forthcoming short animation &#8211; to be released in the fall. Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment Evolution can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #242: The End of Growth Update Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #242 / July 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 111 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is part 2 of the eBook update to my book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Economic contraction and social claustrophobia The social dimensions of the end of growth are coming into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing but “Sad News for Peak Oil Disciples” these days, according to the Financial Post. The latest example: Leonardo Maugeri, a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs—and a long-time critic of Peak Oil analysis—has just published a new report, “Oil: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Growth Update eBook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The End of Growth, published in September 2011, Richard Heinberg, made the observation that world economic expansion, which has been barreling along for the past few decades, is now stalling. The book further claimed that this is not an outcome we can prevent; we can only choose whether and how to adapt. He argued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #241: End of Growth Update Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #241 / June 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) This month&#8217;s newsletter is part 1 of an update to my book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. In The End of Growth, published in September 2011, I made the observation that world economic expansion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #240: Top 11 FAQs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #240 / May 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) This month&#8217;s newsletter comes in 2 parts. The first part is what I hope you will find a useful and timely FAQ on current issues. It is the culmination of my experience from Q&#38;A sessions during recent lecture tours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #239: Talking Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #239 / April 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 112 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises 3 short essays. The first is my impressions from the recent UN &#8220;High Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness; in the second I respond to an essay on the fracking industry by Randy Udall; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#238: Coal, Pipeline Politics, and $5 Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #238 / March 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises three short pieces on the topic of energy. First is an update on China&#8217;s devastating coal consumption; the following two concentrate on the current headline energy issues in the US &#8211; Keystone XL, and gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$5 Gas = Long, Hot, Crazy Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in northern California gasoline is now retailing for $4.20 a gallon. Prices haven’t been this high since mid-2008. Forecasts for $5 per gallon gas in the US this summer are now commonplace. What’s driving prices up? Most analysts focus mostly on two factors: worries about Iran and increased demand from a perceived global economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#237: The Fight of the Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #237 / February 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 143 KB) The Fight of the Century As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to play out? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#236: MuseLetter: The 20th Anniversary Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #236 / January 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 161 KB) Welcome to the 20th anniversary edition of the Museletter. This month&#8217;s edition includes a short Muse memoir, two new pieces, and two reprints of favorites from the past. Thanks for your continued support. MuseLetter: The 20th Anniversary Issue The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#235: Soaring oil and food prices threaten affordable food supply</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #235 / December 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 160 KB) December&#8217;s Museletter is a compilation of three recent pieces. All three are in essence about the political failure to recognize that we are reaching real limits to growth. The first concentrates on the effect of high oil prices on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Post-Growth Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at The Guardian. &#160; The tide of economic growth that has flowed since World War II may finally be ebbing. &#160; For politicians and most economists, this is like saying the sky is falling. Growth has become guidepost and grail, the sine qua non of economic existence. Growth is necessary to job creation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#234: What We&#8217;re For</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #234 / November 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 149 KB) What We Are For &#160; Every activist engaged in combating human-caused climate change or specific elements of the current energy economy knows that the work is primarily oppositional. It could hardly be otherwise; for citizens who care about ecological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End-of-Growth Uprising Goes Global</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It began in Tunisia and Egypt, then spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It spilled into Spain, Greece, and Ireland. It leapfrogged to Wall Street. And this past weekend it erupted in London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, Taipei, and Sydney. In hundreds of towns and cities around the world the uprising&#8217;s refrain is similar: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#233: Our Problems are Resolvable In Principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #233 / October 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 80 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter begins with a message to all those around the country taking part in the #Occupy movement. You may be interested to know that PCI sent a contact of ours, activist/videographer Ben Zolno, to meet with demonstators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Your Demands?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that there is a nascent movement taking form on the streets of American cities, the media are asking, Who are your leaders?, and, What are your demands? The leaders will emerge according to their abilities. The demands will bubble up on their own as well—but here perhaps suggestions are possible. I hesitate to speak, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A Post Growth Economy)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fact that&#8217;s hard for most Americans to swallow: economic growth is over. Given the finite nature of our planet and its resources, the recent trend of global economic expansion was destined to end. No stimulus package or slashing of social programs is going to flip the economy back to an expansionary trajectory. We’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#232: Welcome to the Post-Growth Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #232 / September 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 105 KB) The September Museletter is comprised of two pieces related to my book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8216;. The first is the op-ed which the mainstream press seems reluctant to publish as they hang desperately on to idea that economic growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>231: Who Killed Economic Growth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #231 / August 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 179 KB) The End of Growth was officially released this week! To celebrate, this month&#8217;s Museletter includes a new extract from the book, along with our accompanying animation Who Killed Economic Growth. Finally I have included a new piece encouraging a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Killed Economic Growth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. Richard Heinberg propose a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Our economy will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#230: Petroleum Propaganda 101</title>
		<link>http://richardheinberg.com/museletter-230</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #230 / July 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 106 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises 3 short articles. The most recent concerns the oblique language of government which continues to stifle honest debate on the urgent issues we face; the second is a concise summary of those issues for policymakers; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#229: Currency Wars/Post-Growth Geopolitics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #229 / June 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 115 KB) This month&#8217;s article comes again from from Chapter 5 my new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8216;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in August 2011. This chapter &#8216;Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Heinberg’s latest landmark work goes to the heart of the ongoing financial crisis, explaining how and why it occurred, and what we must do to avert the worst potential outcomes. Written in an engaging, highly readable style, The End of Growth describes what policymakers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Growth &#8211; exclusive supplemental materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extras to Chapter 7: Personal Advice on Adjusting to the End of Growth Setting Priorities   As someone who has for several years been speaking and writing about the consequences of impending energy scarcity, I’m often asked for personal advice. “Where should I live in order to avoid the worst impacts from Peak Oil?” “What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on The End of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Heinberg&#8217;s new book The End of Growth will shortly be hitting the shelves. To find out more about this essential new release, read chapters from the book and watch videos of Richard speaking about The End of Growth. Buy the Book Watch videos and read chapters]]></description>
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		<title>#228 &#8211; Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #228 / May 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 146 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises two pieces. The lead article is the first release of a new section from Chapter 5 of my upcoming book The End of Growth which will be published in September 2011 by New Society Publishers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Growth &#8211; presentation in Totnes, UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard gives what Rob Hopkins described as a &#8220;stunning&#8221; talk about the theory behind his new book The End of Growth. Recorded in Totnes, UK in March 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>#227: Our Economic Black Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #227 / April 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 98 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is made up of two short essays. The first is about the perilous state of the U.S. economy; the second makes the case for urgent energy conservation. &#160; Our Economic Black Hole In recent months economist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#226: Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #226 / March 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) This article is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Richard&#8217;s new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in September 2011. Access previous chapters here. Won&#8217;t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#225: Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #225 / February 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) This article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Richard&#8217;s new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#224: The Sound of Air Escaping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #224 / January 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 214 KB) This article is an excerpt from Richard&#8217;s new book (working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;), which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#223: Video museletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #223 / December 2010 by Richard Heinberg In this month&#8217;s newsletter I am talking to you by video. I am currently very hard at work on my new book (working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;. In the video I share with you more about progress on the book and the thinking behind it. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#222: The End of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #222 / November 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) This is the second Museletter containing an excerpt from my upcoming book which has the working title &#39;The End of Growth&#39;. The book is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Additionally, Richard will be offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Post Carbon Reader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#221: Economics for the Hurried</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #221 / October 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) Over the next few months, most of my MuseLetters and blog posts will be excerpts from a new book-in-progress with the working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;. Only some of the book&#8217;s contents will be serialized this way. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#220: Peak Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #220 / September 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 120 KB) This month’s Museletter is made up of two pieces and includes the preface to the new paperback edition of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines which will be released in paperback this month (September) by New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#219: YOU Can Be a BILLIONAIRE Without Doing Anything!!! Five Ways to Profit BIG from Global Collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #219 / August 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 108 KB) (Author&#8217;s note: This is the Introduction to an inspirational / financial-advice / environmental / diet / dating / self-help / survivalist / humor book that I started to write&#8212;and quickly decided should never be finished. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#218: Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, Best-case, and Most-Likely Scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #218 / July 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 125 KB) 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#217: The End Is Nigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #217 / June 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 117 KB) Following the failure of the latest efforts to plug the gushing leak from BP&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#216: China&#8217;s Coal Bubble&#8230;and how it will deflate U.S. efforts to develop &#8220;clean coal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #216 / May 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 107 KB) The conventional wisdom in energy-and-environment circles is that China&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Americans Facing Reality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2010, Post Carbon Institute brought its Fellows together for the very first time for a weekend of discussion and planning. We used this opportunity to interview each of them about their work and perspective on our current economic, energy, and environmental challenges. In this clip, Senior Fellow-in-Residence Richard Heinberg answers the question of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#215: Economic History in 10 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #215 / April 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) Economic History in 10 Minutes Throughout over 90 percent of our species&#8217; history, we humans lived by hunting and gathering in what anthropologists call gift economies. People had no money, and there was neither barter nor trade among members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#214: Life After Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #214 / March 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 139 KB) &#160; This month&#8217;s Museletter contains two pieces. The first is a rather long essay containing an autobiographical sketch of the path that led me to write full-time about the transition to a post-carbon world, titled &#8220;Life After Growth.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#213: China or the U.S.: Which Will Be the Last Nation Standing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silly me. Here I had thought that world leaders would want to keep their nations from collapsing. They must be working hard to prevent currency collapse, financial system collapse, food system collapse, social collapse, environmental collapse, and the onset of general, overwhelming misery—right? But no, that’s not what the evidence suggests. Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is <i>not</i> to avoid collapse; it’s simply to postpone it a while so as to be the last nation to go down, so yours can have the chance to pick the others’ carcasses before it meets the same fate.]]></description>
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		<title>#212: The Meaning of Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the pivotal international conference of the new century. Tens of thousands showed up, including heads of state, officials at all levels of government, representatives of environmental organizations, and ordinary citizens from nearly 200 countries. Scientists had warned that, without a strong agreement to reduce carbon emissions, the consequences for civilization and the world's ecosystems would be cataclysmic.]]></description>
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		<title>author. educator. speaker.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author of ten books, including the forthcoming The End of Growth, 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 way of life and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#211: Is &#8220;Clean Coal&#8221; a Dead End?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #211 / December 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 109 KB) richardheinberg.com 1. Is &#34;Clean Coal&#34; a Dead End? Note: this article is being featured in the first issue of the new magazine Solutions. Many energy experts, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and representatives of the coal industry [...]]]></description>
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