Katana VentraIP

Richard Heinberg

Richard William Heinberg (b. October 21, 1950) is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of 14 books, and presently serves as the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute.[1]

Early life[edit]

Heinberg grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri. His father, William Heinberg, was a chemist and high-school physics and chemistry teacher. Heinberg's interest in science came from his father, but at an early age, he rejected his parents' fundamentalist Christian beliefs. At one point he lived at Colorado's Sunrise Ranch, headquarters of the "Emissaries of Divine Light" group, which Heinberg referred to as "a sort of benign cult".[2]

Books[edit]

Heinberg's books from the later 1990s address the relationships between humanity and the natural world. In 1998, he began teaching at New College of California[18] in the "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community" program, which he helped design. He remained a member of the Core Faculty until 2007, when the College closed its doors. His book The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, published in 2003, was one of the first full-length analyses of peak oil.


In 2004, Heinberg provided the closing address for the First US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions. His title was "Beyond the Peak".

Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age (1989; revised edition, 1995; British edition, 1990; Portuguese edition, 1991)

Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth’s Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony (1993; Italian edition, 2002; Portuguese edition, 2002)

A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture (1996; Portuguese edition, 1998)  978-0-8356-0746-9

ISBN

Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology (1999; Indian edition, 2001; Japanese edition, 2001; Chinese edition, 2001)

(2003; British, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic editions, 2004–2005; revised North American edition, 2005; Spanish edition, 2007; French edition, 2008 German Edition)

The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

(ISBN 9780865715103) (2004; British edition 2005)

Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006,  978-0-86571-563-9),

ISBN

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007,  978-0-86571-598-1).

ISBN

Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (June, 2009). ( 9780865716568)

ISBN

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, edited by Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lerch (2010)  978-0-9709500-6-2

ISBN

: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, (2011) ISBN 978-0-86571-695-7

The End of Growth

Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (2013)  978-0976751090

ISBN

Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (2015)  978-0865717886

ISBN

: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy (2016) ISBN 978-1610917797, co-authored by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley

Our Renewable Future

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival (2021)  978-0865719675

ISBN

Energy descent

Oil depletion

Peak oil

Petrodollar warfare

Official website

at IMDb

Richard Heinberg

Heinberg on Post Carbon Institute's Green New Deal

2008 interview on Global Public Media

on YouTube

Peak Everything lecture

on YouTube on the Keiser Report

The End of Growth: 2011 interview with Heinberg