MuseLetter #326 / April 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Spring greetings: This past month, under the extraordinary circumstances of global pandemic, lockdown, and economic crisis, I’ve written more essays and articles than can be sent in one MuseLetter. So I’ve selected three of the most-read to include here (“Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth […]

MuseLetter #324 / December 2019 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Thanks for your patience while I continue working on my book-in-progress. For a sneak preview of the ideas taking shape, see ‘Power, the Acceleration of Cultural Evolution, and Our Best Hope for Survival’, below. Also in this Museletter is ‘Calling all Butterflies’, a […]

MuseLetter #323 / August 2019 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear faithful readers, My essay this month was written in response to a piece by Brian Tokar on the subject of local-versus-global action. Great Transition Network, which invited these essays, also published contributions from Helena Norberg Hodge, David Bollier and others. You can […]

Dear Reader, This publication has provided a steady monthly pulse of thought, exploration, and opinion for 27 years. During that time, I’ve let very few months go by without a new post. Now, I must beg your patience while I work on another book project. While with past books I was able to publish chapters […]

MuseLetter #322 / March 2019 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The first essay in this month’s Museletter, “The House is on Fire,” is a wake-up call for any who may be inclined to slumber in these pivotal times. A second piece focuses on the problem of waste in an economic system that’s designed […]

MuseLetter #321 / February 2019 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization? To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a […]

MuseLetter #320 / Janary 2019 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This first Museletter of 2019 brings you two articles. The first examines the challenge and potential benefits of breaking our economic growth addiction. The second is a tongue-in-cheek take on the age of the automobile. Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Economic […]

MuseLetter #319 / December 2018 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear Reader, Warm Solstice greetings! This month’s MuseLetter is an overview of what we’re about at PCI. It’s also a preview of what we’ll be working on increasingly in 2019 and beyond. A year-end contribution to our work would be greatly appreciated! Best […]

MuseLetter #318 / November 2018 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This month's Museletter is my Foreword to Matthieu Auzanneau's excellent new book Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History published by Chelsea Green Publishing. For information on where to get hold of a copy see the links at the end. Foreword to Oil, […]

MuseLetter #317 / October 2018 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 280 KB) Our Bonus Decade This month’s Museletter is made up for two essays on the urgency of our current crises. First up is Our Bonus Decade which looks at the decade since the 2008 financial crash as a brief reprieve […]

Crime is always present in complex societies, just as all higher-order organisms are subject to parasites.