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# What happened to Peak Oil? With Richard Heinberg
- URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/happened-peak-oil-richard-heinberg/
- Published: 2017-09-19T09:11:14.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-02T13:12:10.000Z
- Author: Transition Network international
- Tags: Blog, Climate Change, #Import 2026-03-17

The Greening the Apocalypse team talk peak oil with Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow with the [Post Carbon Institute](http://www.postcarbon.org/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org).

[](#1)Richard is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He’s the author of 13 books, including some seminal works with titles like [*The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11346572-the-end-of-growth?from%5Fsearch=true&ref=news.transitionnetwork.org), and [*Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385207.Powerdown?from%5Fsearch=true&ref=news.transitionnetwork.org). His latest book is [*Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path to One Hundred Percent Clean Energy*](http://ourrenewablefuture.org/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) (available for free online!) co-authored with Berkeley energy expert David Fridley. If you want to do an online course with Richard checkout [Think Resilience](https://education.resilience.org/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org). This is the first of a two part interview.

*First broadcast at* [*Greening the Apocalypse*](http://rrrfm.libsyn.com/greening-the-apocalypse-30-may-2017-what-happened-to-peak-oil-with-richard-heinberg?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) *on 30 May 2017.*

[Re-posted from Post Carbon Institute.](http://www.postcarbon.org/what-happened-to-peak-oil-with-richard-heinberg/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org)