Post Carbon Institute is not a traditional publisher. We’re a think tank that aims to educate society about both the hard realities and most promising responses surrounding the 21st century’s interconnected sustainability crises.
Our books are produced by experts for non-specialist readers. Our authors and editors pride themselves on making complex issues understandable to lay audiences without losing rigor and depth. Best of all, being a non-profit allows us to keep our publications affordable and easily accessible so as to minimize the barriers to quality sustainability education.
We work with various partners to produce and distribute our books. For academic orders and desk copy requests, click on the links below for title-specific information. For further information or questions, contact our Publications Director.
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Philip Ackerman-Leist February 2013
Foreword by Deborah Madison.
Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close …
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The ENERGY Reader
Daniel Lerch Richard Heinberg Bill McKibben David Fridley David Hughes Gloria Flora Wes Jackson October 2012
What magic, or monster, lurks behind the light switch and the gas pump? Where does the seemingly limitless energy that fuels modern society come from? From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop removal coal mining, and natural gas …
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Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects
Greg Pahl August 2012
Foreword by Van Jones.
More than ninety percent of the electricity we use to light our communities, and nearly all the energy we use to run our cars, heat our homes, and power our factories comes from large, centralized, highly …
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Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money From Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity
Michael Shuman February 2012
Foreword by Peter Buffett.
Americans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small …
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The Post Carbon Reader
Peter Whybrow Richard Gilbert Daniel Lerch Richard Heinberg Anthony Perl Bill McKibben Bill Sheehan Brian Schwartz Chris Martenson Cindy Parker David Fridley David Hughes David Orr Erika Allen Gloria Flora Hillary Brown John Kaufmann Joshua Farley Michael Bomford Michael Shuman Richard Douthwaite Rob Hopkins Sandra Postel Stephanie Mills Tom Whipple Warren Karlenzig Wes Jackson William Rees William Ryerson Zenobia Barlow Asher Miller October 2010
How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s …
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ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Daniel Lerch Richard Heinberg Bill McKibben David Fridley David Hughes Gloria Flora Wes Jackson October 2012
What magic, or monster, lurks behind the light switch and the gas pump? Where does the seemingly limitless energy that fuels modern society come from? From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop removal coal mining, and natural gas …
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Richard Heinberg August 2011
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning …
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