MuseLetter

#238: Coal, Pipeline Politics, and $5 Gas

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 […]

#237: The Fight of the Century

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 […]

#236: MuseLetter: The 20th Anniversary Issue

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 […]

#235: Soaring oil and food prices threaten affordable food supply

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 […]

#234: What We're For

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 […]

#233: Our Problems are Resolvable In Principle

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 […]

#232: Welcome to the Post-Growth Economy

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 […]

231: Who Killed 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 […]

#230: Petroleum Propaganda 101

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; […]

#229: Currency Wars/Post-Growth Geopolitics

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 […]

#228 - Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite World

MuseLetter #228 / May 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 146 KB) This month’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. […]

#227: Our Economic Black Hole

MuseLetter #227 / April 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 98 KB) This month’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.   Our Economic Black Hole In recent months economist […]

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