MuseLetter #240 / May 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) This month’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&A sessions during recent lecture tours. […]
MuseLetter #239 / April 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 112 KB) This month’s Museletter comprises 3 short essays. The first is my impressions from the recent UN “High Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness; in the second I respond to an essay on the fracking industry by Randy Udall; the […]
MuseLetter #238 / March 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) This month’s Museletter comprises three short pieces on the topic of energy. First is an update on China’s devastating coal consumption; the following two concentrate on the current headline energy issues in the US – Keystone XL, and gas […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
MuseLetter #235 / December 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 160 KB) December’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 […]
MuseLetter #234 / November 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 149 KB) What We Are For 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 […]
MuseLetter #233 / October 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 80 KB) This month’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 […]
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 ‘The End of Growth‘. The first is the op-ed which the mainstream press seems reluctant to publish as they hang desperately on to idea that economic growth […]
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’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 […]
MuseLetter #230 / July 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 106 KB) This month’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; […]
MuseLetter #229 / June 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 115 KB) This month’s article comes again from from Chapter 5 my new book ‘The End of Growth‘, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in August 2011. This chapter ‘Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite […]