Richard Heinberg was the author of thirteen previous books including The Party's Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. He was a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and was widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. Heinberg gave hundreds of lectures on our energy future to audiences around the world. He was published in Nature and other journals and was featured in many television and theatrical documentaries. He lived in Santa Rosa, CA..