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Post Carbon Institute (PCI) is a think tank which provides information and analysis on climate change, energy scarcity, and other issues related to sustainability and long term community resilience. Its Fellows specialize in various fields related to the organization's mission, such as fossil fuels , renewable energy , food, water, and population.
Heinberg is now the Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, California. He is also a violinist, illustrator, and book designer. He is married to Janet Barocco. Heinberg has proposed an international protocol to peak oil management with the aim of reducing the impact of the arrival of the peak. [12]
Post-Kyoto negotiations refers to high level talks attempting to address global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Generally part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), these talks concern the period after the first "commitment period" of the Kyoto Protocol , which expired at the end of 2012.
The Post Carbon Institute, a sustainability think tank closely connected with interviewee Richard Heinberg, published a podcast that criticizes the film. [56] Emily Atkin, environmental journalist for The New Republic, [57] described the documentary as "an argumentative essay from a lazy college freshman". [58]
Rees is a founding member and recent past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. He is also a Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, a co-investigator in the "Global Integrity Project" aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation, a founding director of the One Earth Initiative and a Director of the Real Green New Deal project.
Energy descent refers to retraction of oil use after the peak oil availability or voluntary energy use reductions in response to the global climate crisis.. Planning and preparing for the peak oil energy descent period has been recently promoted by David Holmgren, Rob Hopkins of the Transition Towns movement, and Richard Heinberg in the 2004 book Power down.
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World: Richard Heinberg: 2004 Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future: Robert Bryce: 2010 Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option: Ian Lowe: 2007 Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era: Amory Lovins: 2011
Albert Allen Bartlett (March 21, 1923 – September 7, 2013) [2] was an American professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.As of July 2001, Professor Bartlett had lectured over 1,742 times since September 1969 on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.