Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is the author of eight books on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of eight books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), and Peak Everything (2008).

Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil.

Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and an illustrator and book designer. He is married to Janet Barocco.

Heinberg is also the editor of Museletter and has appeared in the documentaries The End of Suburbia and Chasing God.

Abstract:
Peak Everything: Treating Our Collective Hydrocarbon Addiction
Humankind has been on a growth binge for millennia, but prior to the industrial revolution, we were limited to yearly solar energy income. With fossil fuels, previous limits to expansion of population and consumption vanished. But now, at the dawn of the 21st century, those limits are reasserting themselves via climate change and peak oil. As a global society, our survival test will be to end our fossil fuel addiction before it ends us. 

San Francisco Festival Abstract 

“New Society Publishing Presents….”

At last year's Green Festival Richard discussed the problem of Peak Oil and one possible policy solution: an Oil Depletion Protocol. Response was so strong that it has resulted in the creation of an Oil Depletion Protocol Project; meanwhile, Richard has written a book on the subject (The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse) which has just been published. The Protocol can be implemented at any level, from the international community to the municipality to the individual. Learn how the world can power down peacefully!