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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]
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.
Stephanie Mills (b. September 11, 1948) is an American environmentalist, author and journalist. She is known for her writing about ecology and the environment, and is considered one of the leading proponents of the bioregional movement.
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]
Transition Town Witzenhausen. The terms transition town, transition initiative and transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, [1] climate destruction, and economic instability [2] through renewed localization strategies, especially around food production and energy usage. [3]
Founder of the Post Carbon Institute: Philip Fang: Interpreter Mansur Hoda: Appropriate Technology advocate Michael Middleton: BSc, 1973 Businessman; father of Catherine, Princess of Wales: Muhammad Ruzaini: 2003 Bruneian prince consort and civil servant [69] Adrian Walker: MSc Computer scientist
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.