MuseLetter

#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 […]

#226: Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?

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’s new book ‘The End of Growth’, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in September 2011. Access previous chapters here. Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us […]

#225: Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return

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’s new book ‘The End of Growth’, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we […]

#224: The Sound of Air Escaping

MuseLetter #224 / January 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 214 KB) This article is an excerpt from Richard’s new book (working title ‘The End of Growth’), which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we are […]

#223: Video museletter

MuseLetter #223 / December 2010 by Richard Heinberg In this month’s newsletter I am talking to you by video. I am currently very hard at work on my new book (working title ‘The End of Growth’. In the video I share with you more about progress on the book and the thinking behind it. I […]

#222: The End of Growth

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 'The End of Growth'. The book is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Additionally, Richard will be offering […]

#221: Economics for the Hurried

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 ‘The End of Growth’. Only some of the book’s contents will be serialized this way. The […]

#220: Peak Everything

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 […]

#219: YOU Can Be a BILLIONAIRE Without Doing Anything!!! Five Ways to Profit BIG from Global Collapse

MuseLetter #219 / August 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 108 KB) (Author’s note: This is the Introduction to an inspirational / financial-advice / environmental / diet / dating / self-help / survivalist / humor book that I started to write—and quickly decided should never be finished. Maybe I shouldn’t have […]

#218: Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, Best-case, and Most-Likely Scenarios

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, […]

#217: The End Is Nigh

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’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 […]

#216: China's Coal Bubble...and how it will deflate U.S. efforts to develop "clean coal"

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’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 […]

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