Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was one of the clearest and steadiest voices addressing fossil-fuel dependence’

Richard’s writing never minimized the severity of the challenges before us, but neither did it surrender to hopelessness. Again and again, he insisted that another path could be imagined and designed—one based on ecological understanding, community-based economics, and a renewed culture of commoning.

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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Tribute to the man behind the legend’

I’ll never forget it. My family and I had just arrived in San Francisco in 2024 to begin a long tour with my podcast. I immediately reached out to Richard and was welcomed with the kindness that characterised him as much as his work.

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Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation

Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.

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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was a vital inspiration for so much of my life and work’

I feel so deeply grateful to have known him, and for the support and enthusiasm he showed for the Transition movement as it emerged. He was a sensitive and thoughtful man who knew that human beings could do so much better.

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The green transition is seen as a path forward. Critics say it’s a technological fix for a larger crisis.

A debate between Bill McKibben and Mark Roller highlights a central question: Can a “solar revolution” address a crisis rooted in ecological overshoot?

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Gratitude in the Great Unraveling

If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.

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‘No nature poems, please’: On how we (don’t) talk about nature

It seemed an odd request for a poetry magazine. What stuck with me most, though, was the very notion of a “nature poem.” What is such a thing? How in this age of collapse and dislocation do we define it?

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What Donald Trump’s view of public lands reveals about his environmental agenda

A man who sees a forest as an unswept floor, who calls coal “beautiful,” who believes offshore wind is driving whales insane and making foxes obese, isn’t just someone with unusual opinions about nature. He’s someone who doesn’t understand the natural world on a fundamental level and doesn’t care to.

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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘One of my core mentors, is gone’

We lost a great one. One consolation. Richard left behind an immense body of work. His last book, Power, was, he felt, a fulfillment of all of his books.

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French climate lawsuit offers a window into the next round of the global legal fight

In the TotalEnergies case, the company acknowledged that its own activities result in emissions that pose risks to the environment.

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In Memoriam: Recollections of Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg was a great sentinel, but he was never shrill. He had the intellectual and moral courage, underlain by common sense, to take radical stances. Anything but a technocrat, he always championed mutual aid and relocalization, never abandoning humanity. His death is a terrible loss.

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Bullerby farming is perhaps a naive dream, but industrial agriculture is a nightmare

Let us call the bluff of industrial agriculture.

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The rush for critical minerals is repeating an ongoing history Indigenous communities know well

All land was Indigenous once. Now, over half of the world’s ‘green’ metal projects are on Indigenous territories, from lithium-driven ecosystem collapse in the Andes to more than 100 proposed lithium mines across the US.

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Why we shouldn’t ignore the trillionaire death cult

The phenomenon of extreme wealth and its worship is a symptom of endemic violence.

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Republicans are trying to give big oil immunity for causing climate chaos

A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. Now, as the links become clearer, oil and gas lobbyists are scrambling to shield the industry from a wave of lawsuits and state laws seeking to hold profiteers accountable.

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Devastating News: The Loss of Richard Heinberg

On Sunday, July 19, we lost our kind, brilliant friend and colleague, Richard Heinberg.

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What belongs in an ecofeminist world?

What would an ecofeminist world include, and what would it leave behind? A classroom exercise explores the values and challenges of imagining systemic change.

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Devastating News: The Loss of Richard Heinberg

On Sunday July 19 we lost our kind, brilliant friend and colleague, Richard Heinberg. 

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The Economics of Kindness: Guy Dauncey shares why we need to design economy as if life matters

In a talk on "community wealth" at the Ecovillage Findhorn, Guy Dauncey shares how kinder, community-based economies can create lasting shared prosperity for people and nature.

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The data center backlash that’s uniting America

The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.

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Taking on the rich is possible. Our Illinois coalition won a tax on tech giants

Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.

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After record-breaking heatwaves, can Britain’s new Prime Minister deliver on climate adaptation?

As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.

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Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease

The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the war in Iran highlight in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, factors that are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.

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It’s time to phase out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.

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How propaganda and false information are undermining humanitarian work – Part 2

If the post-truth era reflects a shift in people’s understanding of whom or what to trust, it should also reflect a shift in how we earn people’s trust. Only by building strong levels of trust can we encourage people to question their own beliefs and accept alternative viewpoints.

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Europe’s May–June heatwaves linked to thousands of deaths as scientists improve mortality estimates

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of reports from public health authorities and scientists that estimate the deaths caused by Europe’s record-breaking summer heatwaves.

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How socialists should govern: On using the capitalist state against itself

The election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in NYC has brought the question of socialist governance to the fore. But what does “success” mean in the context of socialist governance from within the capitalist state?

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Trump is fighting migrants while fueling the crises that force people to flee

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion -- of planet Earth itself. They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone.

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Creating resilient futures: Navigating ecological and civilizational contraction

A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.

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