Richard Heinberg is a widely published author, speaker and consultant on energy and environmental issues. His books include The Party's Over (2003), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004), The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Achieve Energy Security and Economic Stability (2006), Blackout: Coal, Climate Change, and the Last Stand of the Electric Utilities (2009) and The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (2011). He is also the senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit research organization he co-founded in 2003.