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. His books have been translated into eight languages.

   Heinberg 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 that have appeared in such journals as The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, Pacific Ecologist, Wild Matters and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net and GlobalPublicMedia.com.

   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.”

Speaking:

   Since 2002, he has given over four hundred lectures on oil depletion (“Peak Oil”) to a wide variety of audiences—from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers.

   Heinberg delivered a brief invited keynote at an appearance by Prince Charles in San Francisco, and subsequently gave a presentation at the Prince of Wales’s University of Cambridge Programme on Industry and the Environment. Heinberg has also presented at or for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.; the National School of Government (UK); University of Maryland’s Conference on Peak Oil and the Environment; New York Institute of Technology’s 50th anniversary conference, “Teetering on the Brink”; the 2005 national Mensa Colloquium; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories; the Development Bank of Southern Africa; the Canadian National Farmers Union; the South African Institute of International Affairs; the Colombian Society of Engineers (annual conference keynote); UBS Investment Bank; the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; the Young Presidents Organization (Guatemala); Progressive Insurance Company; Nike;  the National Solar Energy Conference; the Bioneers Conference; the Sustainable Energy Summit; American Solar Energy Society; and Solfest.

College Speaking:

   Heinberg has spoken at many colleges and universities, including Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley (Goldman School of Public Policy), Schumacher College (England), Smith College (Mass.), Marlboro College (Vermont), Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY), University of Maryland, University of Vermont (President’s Lecture), University of Guelph (Ontario), Lester Pearson College (British Columbia), Glassboro State College (New Jersey), Rockhill College (Kansas City), Virginia Commonwealth University, Young Harris College (Georgia), Blackhawk College (Moline, Illinois), University of California at San Bernardino, UC San Diego, Adelaide University (Australia), University of Toronto, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, Auckland University (New Zealand), University of New Hampshire, Tufts University (Boston), Smith College (Mass.), New College of California (San Francisco), Millsaps College (Jackson, Mississippi), Miami University (Oxford, Ohio, Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture), Plymouth State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire, Sidore Lecture Series), Hunter College (New York City), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), University of Cape Town, Wits Business School (South Africa), University of Western Australia, and Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Japan).

   From 1998 through 2007, Heinberg was a Core Faculty member of New College of California, where he taught a program on Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community.