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MuseLetter #302 / July 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 121 KB) Controversy Explodes over Renewable Energy A heated debate in the pages of one of the country’s most renowned scientific journals has gained national attention. The debate is over whether a combination of wind, solar, and hydroelectricity could fully power […]
MuseLetter #301 / June 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 518 KB) In the Museletter this month, two essays. First: Might peak coal improve our chances of avoiding the worst climate change impacts? And what are the implications for economic growth? Second: What are the implications of Donald Trump’s announcement that […]
MuseLetter #300 / May 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 102 KB) Here are a few useful recent contributions to the global sustainability conversation, with relevant comments interspersed. Toward the end of this essay I offer some general thoughts about converging challenges to the civilizational system. “Oil Extraction, Economic Growth, and […]
MuseLetter #299 / April 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 148 KB) This month’s MuseLetter leads with a piece examining the Trump Presidency’s assault on the administrative state. A second essay explores the arguments for helping forests migrate in response to climate change. Goodbye Administrative State, Hello Community Resilience White House […]
MuseLetter #298 / March 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 122 KB) This month’s MuseLetter kicks off with an article looking at the cultural ecology behind the current political battles in Washington, as well as their global context. The second piece focuses on what we might do to address the situation. […]
MuseLetter #297 / February 2017 by Richard Heinberg This month’s Museletter brings together three essays that sound alarms on the early days of the Trump administration. Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 177 KB) Awaiting Our Own Reichstag Fire Millions of Americans now share the profoundly disturbing experience of watching and waiting as their nation […]
MuseLetter #296 / January 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 430KB) This month marks 25 years of MuseLetter. During this time I’ve written and published something like 1,200,000 words, which found their way into a dozen books. Special greetings to long-time subscribers—you know who you are—who remember the printed version of […]
MuseLetter #295 / December 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) During this time of increasing political polarization and hostility, take some time this holiday season to be especially kind to the people around you. May we all prosper in the year ahead! Best wishes, Richard Localism in the Age […]
MuseLetter #294 / November 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 272 KB) First up this month is an article looking at President-Elect Donald Trump’s big promise to power the US on ‘clean coal’. Next is a piece I wrote shortly before the election which looks at the crisis of political legitimacy. […]
MuseLetter #293 / October 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 121 KB) This month’s MuseLetter consists of the first few chapters of the script of a video series we’re producing. It will be targeted at an academic audience but will also be released for general viewing; it will be accompanied by […]
MuseLetter #292 / September 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but everybody does it. As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, […]
MuseLetter #291 / August 2016 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 236 KB) This month’s Museletter begins with an edited excerpt of an article I wrote for Pacific Standard Magazine called ‘Is the Oil Industry Dying?’ which looks at the current state of the oil industry and how that relates back to […]
