Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators and author of eight books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, a columnist for The Ecologist magazine and the author of many essays and articles in such journals as The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, and The Sun; and on websites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, GlobalPublicMedia.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.