Recharge, Retool and Recycle
Keynote Speaker Richard Heinberg: Post Carbon Institute - author of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003, 2005), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society, 2004), The Oil Depletion Protocol (New Society, 2006), and Peak Everything (New Society, 2007). His ninth book, Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis will be published in June 2009.
Heinberg is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. His monthly MuseLetter has been included in Utne Magazine's annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. He writes a regular column for the Ecologist magazine and has authored scores of essays and articles.
Heinberg appears in the documentaries Earth2100 (ABC television, 2009); A Farm for the Future (BBC, 2009); Blind Spot (2008); 11th Hour (produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, 2007); The History Channel's Megadisasters series, episode "Oil Apocalypse" (2007); Escape from Suburbia (2007); What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007); Crude Impact (2006); Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2006); the nationally televised PBS documentary Ripe for Change (2006); The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006); and The End of Suburbia (2004).
The September 18, 2006 issue of The New Yorker noted that Heinberg's The Party's Over was on Bill Clinton's summer reading list; according to Clinton interviewer David Remnick, the former President's copy "was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate's markings, with lots of exclamation points."
Heinberg is married to horticulturist/herbalist/massage therapist Janet Barocco; they live in a suburban house retrofitted for energy efficiency and food production. Heinberg's primary hobby is playing the violin. He performs frequently with chamber groups and jazz ensembles.
