Bio
Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003, 2005), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society, 2004), The Oil Depletion Protocol (New Society, 2006), and Peak Everything (New Society, 2007). He is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He writes a regular column for The Ecologist, and has also authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Alternative Press Review, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, GlobalPublicMedia.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com. He has appeared in numerous video documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour.
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Affiliations
Interviews
The Implications of the End of the Petroleum Age
The Vancouver Planetarium: video, audio, and transcript (Global Public Media)
Financial Sense Online
Powerdown: audio, August 7, 2004
Peak Experience: The Age of Oil is Coming to an End
The Sun Magazine: print, July 2006
Exclusive to Transition Culture: Peak Oil
Transition Culture: online, November 2006
