{"id":32160,"date":"2018-03-10T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32160"},"modified":"2018-03-10T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:43:53","slug":"episode-109-richard-heinberg-on-choosing-to-get-off-fossil-energy-our-best-local-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32160","title":{"rendered":"Episode 109: Richard Heinberg on Choosing to Get Off Fossil Energy\u2014Our Best Local Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Episode 109: Richard Heinberg on Choosing to Get Off Fossil Energy\u2014Our Best Local Choices<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast*<\/h3>\n

Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, including some of the seminal works on society\u2019s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis:<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently, Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy<\/em>, co-authored with David Fridley (2016), a<\/span>nd the well-known, The End of Growth: Adapting the Our New Economic Reality\u00a0<\/i>(2011)<\/p>\n

He is Senior Fellow of the\u00a0Post Carbon Institute<\/span><\/a>, which is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.\u00a0He is regarded as one of the world\u2019s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as\u00a0<\/span>Nature<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Reuters<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>The American Prospect<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Public Policy Research<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Quarterly Review<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Yes!<\/i><\/span>, and\u00a0<\/span>The Sun<\/i><\/span>; and on web sites such as Resilience.org, TheOilDrum.com, Alternet.org, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard has delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences in 14 countries, addressing policy makers at many levels, from local City Councils to members of the European Parliament. He has been quoted and interviewed countless times for print,\u00a0<\/span>television and radio.<\/p>\n

Richard has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s 11th Hour. He is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan\u2019s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard\u2019s animations\u00a0<\/span>Don\u2019t Worry, Drive On<\/a>;<\/span>\u00a0Who Killed Economic Growth?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a>and\u00a0<\/span>300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(winner of a YouTubes\u2019s\/DoGooder Video of the Year Award) have been viewed by nearly two million people.<\/span><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article and listen to the podcast…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Episode 109: Richard Heinberg on Choosing to Get Off Fossil Energy\u2014Our Best Local Choices Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast* Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, including some of the seminal works on society\u2019s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis: Most recently, Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy, co-authored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19203,19204,19205,19206,19207,19208,19209,19210,19211,2088,19212,19213,19214,19215,19216,14961,19217,19218,1081,12483,19219,19220,19221,19222,19223,7625,19224,19225,19226,19227],"class_list":["post-32160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-10-tips","tag-alternate-celebrations-catalog","tag-alternative-giving","tag-alternatives","tag-black-history-month","tag-celebrate-responsibly","tag-challenge-consumerism","tag-elca-archives","tag-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-america","tag-faith","tag-gerald-iversen","tag-itunes","tag-lee-van-ham","tag-live-justly","tag-living-more-with-less","tag-minimalism","tag-mission","tag-northstone","tag-richard-heinberg","tag-simple-living","tag-simple-living-101","tag-social-media-supplement","tag-spanish","tag-speakers","tag-stitcher","tag-the-climate-mobilization","tag-the-oneearth-project","tag-treasury-of-celebrations","tag-voluntary-simplicity","tag-walter-brueggemann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32161,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32160\/revisions\/32161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}