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Post Carbon Institute

April 12, 2024

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. Post Carbon is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is based in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.

Post Carbon Institute
Founded2003 (2003)
FounderJulian Darley and Celine Rich
65-1208462
Location
Key people
Asher Miller, Executive Director; Jason Bradford, Board President; Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow
Revenue (2017)
$1,051,861[1]
Expenses (2017)$712,871[1]
Websitewww.postcarbon.org

Post Carbon Institute largely publishes and promotes the work of its Fellows and allies. It maintains two major websites, postcarbon.org for material from its staff and Fellows, and resilience.org for material from allies. Since 2009 it has focused on: publishing articles, reports, and books; running issue-oriented promotional campaigns; and serving as a speakers' bureau for some of its Fellows.

History edit

2003–2008 edit

Post Carbon Institute was founded by Julian Darley (President) and Celine Rich (Executive Director) in 2003. (Although not explicitly recognized as a founder, Dave Room helped build the Institute from months of its inception into a funded organization.) Its initial purpose was to implement programs to educate the public on issues surrounding global fossil fuel depletion (see peak oil, peak coal, peak gas) and climate change, as well as on possible responses to these challenges. A key tool for this was a film called "The End of Suburbia", which featured Richard Heinberg and James Howard Kunstler among others. Post Carbon promoted the concept of Relocalization, a strategy to build community resilience based on the local production of food, energy, and goods, and the development of more localized governance, economy, and culture.[2]

Post Carbon Institute was one of the few organizations in this period actively promoting the concept of peak oil, along with groups such as the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, the International Forum on Globalization, and the Transition Towns movement, and websites such as EnergyBulletin.net and The Oil Drum. It ran the predominant online social network focused on community responses to peak oil and climate change, the Relocalization Network. Richard Heinberg[3] joined as a Senior Fellow-in-Residence in 2008. Major activities included:

  • Global Public Media, streaming long format audio and video interviews about the issues surrounding fossil fuel depletion.
  • The Relocalization Network,[4][5] a network of groups and individuals working to educate their local communities and develop programs to re-localize food and energy production, and reduce local consumption.
  • The Energy Farms Network, a demonstration and partnership program to explore production of feedstocks, fuels and electricity by local farmers for local users.
  • (aka the Rimini or Uppsala Protocol), a blueprint for an international agreement to avoid price and supply volatility problems associated with global oil production.

Since 2009 edit

Asher Miller became Executive Director in 2009, and Post Carbon restructured to concentrate its program activities on research and publishing. It broadened its topical focus to include natural resource depletion, climate change, the limits to economic growth, human overpopulation, food, and other issues - partly in response to the changed U.S. political landscape following the 2008 oil crisis, the financial crisis of 2007–2008, and the election of President Barack Obama (see Post Carbon Institute Manifesto). Most of its earlier programs were consolidated or discontinued. It entered into partnerships with Transition US[6] and Energy Bulletin.net, a clearinghouse website on issues surrounding global energy resource depletion. Its roster of Fellows was significantly expanded to include notable figures such as Bill McKibben, Wes Jackson, David Orr, and Majora Carter.

Activities edit

Resilience.org edit

Resilience.org is a resource platform for communities building local self-reliance, emphasizing community-based responses to the rapidly emerging fallout from the end of cheap fossil fuels. It was launched in 2012 as the successor to the popular peak oil website EnergyBulletin.net.[7]

Think Resilience edit

Think Resilience is an online course on "how to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces" and "how to build community resilience."[8]

Publications edit

Since 2012, publications have focused primarily on energy and/or community resilience:

Energy edit

  • Report: Shale Reality Check 2019, by J. David Hughes (2019)
  • Report: How Long Will the Shale Revolution Last?: Technology versus Geology and the Lifecycle of Shale Plays, by J. David Hughes (2019)
  • Book: Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History, by Matthieu Auzanneau, foreword by Richard Heinberg, published by Chelsea Green (2018); English translation of Or noir: la grande histoire du pétrole, published by Éditions La Découverte (2015)
  • Report: Shale Reality Check, by J. David Hughes (2018)
  • Report: 2016 Tight Oil Reality Check, by J. David Hughes (2016)
  • Report: 2016 Shale Gas Reality Check, by J. David Hughes (2016)
  • Book: Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy, by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley, published by Island Press (2016)
  • Report: Renewable Energy After COP21, by Richard Heinberg (2015)
  • Report: Tight Oil Reality Check, by J. David Hughes (2015)
  • Report: Shale Gas Reality Check, by J. David Hughes (2015)
  • Book: Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels, by Richard Heinberg, published by New Society (2015)
  • Report: Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil & Shale Gas Boom, by J. David Hughes (2014)[9]
  • Report: Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale, by J. David Hughes, with Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (2013)[10]
  • Book: Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, by Richard Heinberg (2013)[11]
  • Report: Drill Baby Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance, by J. David Hughes (2013)[12][13]
  • Campaign: The Energy Reality Campaign, with various allies
  • Book: ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, published by Watershed Media with the Foundation for Deep Ecology (2013). With essays by Lester Brown, Amory Lovins, Bill McKibben and others.[14]
  • Book: The ENERGY Reader, edited by Tom Butler, Daniel Lerch, and George Wuerthner, published by Watershed Media with the Foundation for Deep Ecology (2013). With essays by Winona LaDuke, Vandana Shiva, and others.
  • Report: Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?, by J. David Hughes (2011)[15]
  • Video: 300 years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds, Winner of a YouTube DoGooder best non-profit video award (2011)
  • Report: Searching for a Miracle: 'Net Energy' Limits & the Fate of Industrial Society, by Richard Heinberg, with the International Forum on Globalization (2010)
  • Report: Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis[16] by The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) and Post Carbon Institute (2008)
  • Book: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty by Daniel Lerch (2007)

Community Resilience edit

  • Book: The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch with authors including Richard Heinberg, Chuck Collins & Sarah Byrnes, William Rees, Stephanie Mills, Brian Walker & David Salt, Rebecca Wodder, Denise Fairchild & Al Weinrub, and Mike Lydon; published by Island Press (2017)
  • Report: Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience, by Daniel Lerch (2015)
  • Book: Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense, by Michael Shuman and Gwendolyn Hallsmith (2015)
  • Report: Resilient Against What?: How Leading U.S. Municipalities Are Understanding and Acting on Resilience, by Jim Thayer, Morgan Rider, and Daniel Lerch (2013)[17]
  • Book: Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems, by Philip Ackerman-Leist, published by Chelsea Green Publishing (2013)[18]
  • Book: Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects, by Greg Pahl, published by Chelsea Green Publishing (2012)[19]
  • Book: Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity, by Michael Shuman, published by Chelsea Green Publishing (2012)[20]
  • Book: The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, edited by Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lerch with authors including Peter C. Whybrow, David W. Orr, and Sandra Postel, published by Watershed Media (2010), winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal (Environment/Ecology/Nature)[21]

Other Topics edit

  • Report: The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification by Jason Bradford (2019)
  • Report: There's No App for That: Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss, by Richard Heinberg (2017)
  • Report: Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience, by Asher Miller and Rob Hopkins (2013)[22]
  • Book: The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg, published by New Society Publishers (2011)[23]
  • Report: The Real New Deal: Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy, Economic, and Environmental Recovery by Richard Heinberg, Daniel Lerch, Asher Miller (2009)
  • Report: The Food and Farming Transition by Richard Heinberg and Michael Bomford (2009)

Fellows edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Post Carbon Institute" (PDF). Post Carbon Institute. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  2. ^ Vancouver Straight (2009-07-23). Hello local, goodbye global: Relocalization movement gains momentum
  3. ^ San Francisco Chronicle (2008-05-27). Supply-demand imbalance boosts oil prices
  4. ^ Toronto Star (2008-01-03). Is oil supply at its peak?
  5. ^ Boulder Daily Camera (2007-09-28). Lifestyle changes prepare locals for energy changes
  6. ^ New York Times (2009/04/19). The End is Near! Yay!
  7. ^ FinancialPress, Energy Bulletin has Moved to Resilience.org, 3 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Think Resilience". Think Resilience. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  9. ^ Peter Moskowitz, Sapping the sweet spots: How long will US energy boom last?, Al Jazeera America, November 10, 2014.
  10. ^ Anne Mulkern, Is Calif.'s Monterey Shale a major oil resource or over-hyped?, EnergyWire, 5 December 2013.
  11. ^ Richard Heinberg, Was the Oil and Gas Industry Promoting Peak Oil to Make Maximum Profits?, AlterNet, 19 August 2013.
  12. ^ Wendy Koch, Could fracking boom peter out sooner than DOE expects?, USA Today, 3 November 2013.
  13. ^ Alvin Lee, Shale Oil and Gas: The Contrarian View, Forbes, 6 May 2013.
  14. ^ Tara Lohan, The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet, AlterNet, 27 March 2013.
  15. ^ Susan Carpenter, Natural gas: study raises doubts on U.S. supply, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2011.
  16. ^ The Scotsman (2008/10/09). Scottish councils urged to get into peak oil practice
  17. ^ InfrastructureUSA, Resilient Against What?, 21 October 2013.
  18. ^ Publishers Weekly, Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems, 4 February 2013.
  19. ^ Brita Belli, Owning Your Energy, The Environmental Magazine, September/October 2012.
  20. ^ Michael Shuman, 5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense, Yes! Magazine, 14 February 2013.
  21. ^ Jim Jubelirer, A Primer for the Post-Carbon World, GreenBiz, 10 December 2010.
  22. ^ Candice Bernd, Post Carbon Institute Calls on Environmentalists to Embrace Post-Growth Economics, Truthout, 9 October 2013.
  23. ^ Crawford Kilian, The End of Growth...and Then What?, The Tyee, 11 June 2012.

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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 Post Carbon is incorporated as a 501 c 3 non profit organization and is based in Corvallis Oregon United States Post Carbon InstituteFounded2003 2003 FounderJulian Darley and Celine RichTax ID no 65 1208462LocationCorvallis Oregon United StatesKey peopleAsher Miller Executive Director Jason Bradford Board President Richard Heinberg Senior FellowRevenue 2017 1 051 861 1 Expenses 2017 712 871 1 Websitewww wbr postcarbon wbr orgPost Carbon Institute largely publishes and promotes the work of its Fellows and allies It maintains two major websites postcarbon org for material from its staff and Fellows and resilience org for material from allies Since 2009 it has focused on publishing articles reports and books running issue oriented promotional campaigns and serving as a speakers bureau for some of its Fellows Contents 1 History 1 1 2003 2008 1 2 Since 2009 2 Activities 2 1 Resilience org 2 2 Think Resilience 2 3 Publications 2 3 1 Energy 2 3 2 Community Resilience 2 3 3 Other Topics 3 Fellows 4 See also 5 ReferencesHistory edit2003 2008 edit Post Carbon Institute was founded by Julian Darley President and Celine Rich Executive Director in 2003 Although not explicitly recognized as a founder Dave Room helped build the Institute from months of its inception into a funded organization Its initial purpose was to implement programs to educate the public on issues surrounding global fossil fuel depletion see peak oil peak coal peak gas and climate change as well as on possible responses to these challenges A key tool for this was a film called The End of Suburbia which featured Richard Heinberg and James Howard Kunstler among others Post Carbon promoted the concept of Relocalization a strategy to build community resilience based on the local production of food energy and goods and the development of more localized governance economy and culture 2 Post Carbon Institute was one of the few organizations in this period actively promoting the concept of peak oil along with groups such as the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas the International Forum on Globalization and the Transition Towns movement and websites such as EnergyBulletin net and The Oil Drum It ran the predominant online social network focused on community responses to peak oil and climate change the Relocalization Network Richard Heinberg 3 joined as a Senior Fellow in Residence in 2008 Major activities included Global Public Media streaming long format audio and video interviews about the issues surrounding fossil fuel depletion The Relocalization Network 4 5 a network of groups and individuals working to educate their local communities and develop programs to re localize food and energy production and reduce local consumption The Energy Farms Network a demonstration and partnership program to explore production of feedstocks fuels and electricity by local farmers for local users The Oil Depletion Protocol aka the Rimini or Uppsala Protocol a blueprint for an international agreement to avoid price and supply volatility problems associated with global oil production Since 2009 edit Asher Miller became Executive Director in 2009 and Post Carbon restructured to concentrate its program activities on research and publishing It broadened its topical focus to include natural resource depletion climate change the limits to economic growth human overpopulation food and other issues partly in response to the changed U S political landscape following the 2008 oil crisis the financial crisis of 2007 2008 and the election of President Barack Obama see Post Carbon Institute Manifesto Most of its earlier programs were consolidated or discontinued It entered into partnerships with Transition US 6 and Energy Bulletin net a clearinghouse website on issues surrounding global energy resource depletion Its roster of Fellows was significantly expanded to include notable figures such as Bill McKibben Wes Jackson David Orr and Majora Carter Activities editResilience org edit Resilience org is a resource platform for communities building local self reliance emphasizing community based responses to the rapidly emerging fallout from the end of cheap fossil fuels It was launched in 2012 as the successor to the popular peak oil website EnergyBulletin net 7 Think Resilience edit Think Resilience is an online course on how to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces and how to build community resilience 8 Publications edit Since 2012 publications have focused primarily on energy and or community resilience Energy edit Report Shale Reality Check 2019 by J David Hughes 2019 Report How Long Will the Shale Revolution Last Technology versus Geology and the Lifecycle of Shale Plays by J David Hughes 2019 Book Oil Power and War A Dark History by Matthieu Auzanneau foreword by Richard Heinberg published by Chelsea Green 2018 English translation of Or noir la grande histoire du petrole published by Editions La Decouverte 2015 Report Shale Reality Check by J David Hughes 2018 Report 2016 Tight Oil Reality Check by J David Hughes 2016 Report 2016 Shale Gas Reality Check by J David Hughes 2016 Book Our Renewable Future Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley published by Island Press 2016 Report Renewable Energy After COP21 by Richard Heinberg 2015 Report Tight Oil Reality Check by J David Hughes 2015 Report Shale Gas Reality Check by J David Hughes 2015 Book Afterburn Society Beyond Fossil Fuels by Richard Heinberg published by New Society 2015 Report Drilling Deeper A Reality Check on U S Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil amp Shale Gas Boom by J David Hughes 2014 9 Report Drilling California A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale by J David Hughes with Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy 2013 10 Book Snake Oil How Fracking s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future by Richard Heinberg 2013 11 Report Drill Baby Drill Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance by J David Hughes 2013 12 13 Campaign The Energy Reality Campaign with various allies Book ENERGY Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner published by Watershed Media with the Foundation for Deep Ecology 2013 With essays by Lester Brown Amory Lovins Bill McKibben and others 14 Book The ENERGY Reader edited by Tom Butler Daniel Lerch and George Wuerthner published by Watershed Media with the Foundation for Deep Ecology 2013 With essays by Winona LaDuke Vandana Shiva and others Report Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century by J David Hughes 2011 15 Video 300 years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds Winner of a YouTube DoGooder best non profit video award 2011 Report Searching for a Miracle Net Energy Limits amp the Fate of Industrial Society by Richard Heinberg with the International Forum on Globalization 2010 Report Preparing for Peak Oil Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis 16 by The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre ODAC and Post Carbon Institute 2008 Book Post Carbon Cities Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty by Daniel Lerch 2007 Community Resilience edit Book The Community Resilience Reader Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval edited by Daniel Lerch with authors including Richard Heinberg Chuck Collins amp Sarah Byrnes William Rees Stephanie Mills Brian Walker amp David Salt Rebecca Wodder Denise Fairchild amp Al Weinrub and Mike Lydon published by Island Press 2017 Report Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience by Daniel Lerch 2015 Book Vermont Dollars Vermont Sense by Michael Shuman and Gwendolyn Hallsmith 2015 Report Resilient Against What How Leading U S Municipalities Are Understanding and Acting on Resilience by Jim Thayer Morgan Rider and Daniel Lerch 2013 17 Book Rebuilding the Foodshed How to Create Local Sustainable and Secure Food Systems by Philip Ackerman Leist published by Chelsea Green Publishing 2013 18 Book Power from the People How to Organize Finance and Launch Local Energy Projects by Greg Pahl published by Chelsea Green Publishing 2012 19 Book Local Dollars Local Sense How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity by Michael Shuman published by Chelsea Green Publishing 2012 20 Book The Post Carbon Reader Managing the 21st Century s Sustainability Crises edited by Richard Heinberg amp Daniel Lerch with authors including Peter C Whybrow David W Orr and Sandra Postel published by Watershed Media 2010 winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal Environment Ecology Nature 21 Other Topics edit Report The Future is Rural Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification by Jason Bradford 2019 Report There s No App for That Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change Overpopulation and Biodiversity Loss by Richard Heinberg 2017 Report Climate After Growth Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post Growth Economics and Community Resilience by Asher Miller and Rob Hopkins 2013 22 Book The End of Growth Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg published by New Society Publishers 2011 23 Report The Real New Deal Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy Economic and Environmental Recovery by Richard Heinberg Daniel Lerch Asher Miller 2009 Report The Food and Farming Transition by Richard Heinberg and Michael Bomford 2009 Fellows editRichard Heinberg Anthony Perl Bill McKibben Bill Sheehan Brian Schwartz Cindy Parker David Fridley David Hughes David Orr Erika Allen Gloria Flora Hillary Brown Janelle Orsi John Kaufmann Joshua Farley Majora Carter Michael Bomford Michael Shuman Paul Gilding Rob Hopkins Peter Whybrow Sandra Postel Stephanie Mills Tom Whipple Warren Karlenzig Wes Jackson William E Rees academic William Ryerson Zenobia BarlowSee also editCommunity Resilience Peak oil Resource depletion Transition Towns Climate change mitigationReferences edit a b Post Carbon Institute PDF Post Carbon Institute Retrieved 17 November 2018 Vancouver Straight 2009 07 23 Hello local goodbye global Relocalization movement gains momentum San Francisco Chronicle 2008 05 27 Supply demand imbalance boosts oil prices Toronto Star 2008 01 03 Is oil supply at its peak Boulder Daily Camera 2007 09 28 Lifestyle changes prepare locals for energy changes New York Times 2009 04 19 The End is Near Yay FinancialPress Energy Bulletin has Moved to Resilience org 3 January 2013 Think Resilience Think Resilience Retrieved 2018 11 17 Peter Moskowitz Sapping the sweet spots How long will US energy boom last Al Jazeera America November 10 2014 Anne Mulkern Is Calif s Monterey Shale a major oil resource or over hyped EnergyWire 5 December 2013 Richard Heinberg Was the Oil and Gas Industry Promoting Peak Oil to Make Maximum Profits AlterNet 19 August 2013 Wendy Koch Could fracking boom peter out sooner than DOE expects USA Today 3 November 2013 Alvin Lee Shale Oil and Gas The Contrarian View Forbes 6 May 2013 Tara Lohan The Coming Crash Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet AlterNet 27 March 2013 Susan Carpenter Natural gas study raises doubts on U S supply Los Angeles Times 17 May 2011 The Scotsman 2008 10 09 Scottish councils urged to get into peak oil practice InfrastructureUSA Resilient Against What 21 October 2013 Publishers Weekly Rebuilding the Foodshed How to Create Local Sustainable and Secure Food Systems 4 February 2013 Brita Belli Owning Your Energy The Environmental Magazine September October 2012 Michael Shuman 5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense Yes Magazine 14 February 2013 Jim Jubelirer A Primer for the Post Carbon World GreenBiz 10 December 2010 Candice Bernd Post Carbon Institute Calls on Environmentalists to Embrace Post Growth Economics Truthout 9 October 2013 Crawford Kilian The End of Growth and Then What The Tyee 11 June 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Post Carbon Institute amp oldid 1195975681, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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