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About the Author

RICHARD HEINBERG is the author of seven previous 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), and
The Oil Depletion Protocol
(New Society, 2006). He is an educator, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California's Campus for Sustainable Living, and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators.

He has also authored scores of essays and articles, which have appeared in journals such as
The American Prospect, Quarterly Review, Public Policy Research, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal;
and on web sites such as
GlobalPublicMedia.com
,
Alternet.org
,
EnergyBulletin.net
,
ProjectCensored.com
,
and
Counterpunch.com
.

In 2005,
Powerdown
received
Fore Word
magazine's Bronze Environmental Award. In 2007,
The Oil Depletion Protocol
won
ForeWord's
Gold Environmental Award as well as the Independent Publishers Book of the Year (IPPY) Bronze Award in the category of Current Events.

His books have been translated into eight languages.

Since 2002, he has given over three hundred lectures on oil depletion (“Peak Oil”) to a wide variety of audiences, including members of the European Parliament.

He is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education (2006).

Heinberg appears prominently in the documentary films
11
^thHour
(produced and narrated by Leonardo diCaprio, 2007);
Asleep in America
(2007); The History Channel's
Megadisasters
series, episode on Peak Oil (2007);
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
(2007);
Escape from Suburbia
(2007);
Crude Impact
(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). He is currently working with Discovery Channel on the upcoming sustainability series,
Final Hour.

For more information on Richard and his current work, go to
www.richardheinberg.com

CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA:
A catalog record for this publication is available
from the National Library of Canada.

Inquiries regarding requests to reprint all or part of
Peak Everything
should be addressed to New Society Publishers at the address below.
To order directly from the publishers, please call toll-free (North America)
1-800-567-6772, or order online at
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Any other inquiries can be directed by mail to:
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Heinberg, Richard

Peak everything : waking up to the century of declines/Richard Heinberg. Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-550-92469-5

1. Human ecology. 2. Social history--21st century.

3. Sustainable agriculture. 4. Energy conservation. I. Title.

GF41.H.2 C2010-901621-1