Richard Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of seven books [1], including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World [2], and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006) [3].

While being interviewed in late 2006, Heinberg declared that the Oil Depletion Protocol will be his main area of work for the next year.^[1]

Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil. He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. [4]

Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, California and is a core faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches a course on Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community. He is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. 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, The 11th Hour, Crude Impact, Chasing God, and Just Around the Corner.

See also

• Petrodollar warfare

References

1. ^ An Interview with Richard Heinberg - Part Two… Powerdown and Transition Towns. 28 November 2007. Accessed on 18 July 2007.

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about:

Richard Heinberg

• OneWorldTV video interview with Richard Heinberg
• We Need a New Myth - Richard Heinberg
• Interview: (October 21, 2006) The Oil Depletion Protocol
• Interview, July 2006
• Heinberg's personal website
• Oil, Smoke & Mirrors Contains interviews with Heinberg discussing peak oil.
• Critique of Civilization Paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, June 15, 1995.

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