# museletter (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover museletter. Page: Feed: --- ## [Habitat MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-899) _2026-07-31 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #40 ## [MuseLetter #400: As America turns 250, its attention to continued survival fades and fractures](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-400-as-america-turns-250-its-attention-to-continued-survival-fades-and-fractures) _2026-07-30 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #400 / July 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version It’s with tremendous sadness that we share the news of Richard Heinberg’s tragic passing on July 19, 2026, after a short, brutal illness. Please visit the memorial website for Richard to share your own reflections and memories. This month marks the 400th monthly \[…\] The post MuseLetter #400: As America turns 250, its… ## [Habitat MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-499) _2026-07-10 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #39 ## [Habitat's MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitats-museletter-a4c) _2026-07-04 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #38 ## [MuseLetter #399: When the Saints Go Marching Out: New Orleans and the Resilience of Cities](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-399-when-the-saints-go-marching-out-new-orleans-and-the-resilience-of-cities) _2026-06-30 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #399 / June 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This month’s MuseLetter is an exploration of community resilience via two related articles. The first is about the City of New Orleans, which is famously vulnerable to natural disasters, but also has a lot to teach us about social capital as an asset \[…\] The post MuseLetter #399: When the Saints Go Marching Out: New… ## [Habitat Museletter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-ab8) _2026-06-25 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #37 ## [Habitat MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-74f) _2026-06-19 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #36 ## [Habitat MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-a99) _2026-06-14 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #35 ## [Habitat MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitat-museletter-8ee) _2026-06-05 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #34 ## [MuseLetter #398: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are a Dead End](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-398-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-a-dead-end) _2026-05-22 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #398 / May 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download Printable PDF Version Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are a Dead End The nuclear power industry is currently promoting designs for small modular reactors (SMRs) that will supposedly be cheaper, safer, and faster to build than older nuclear power plants. Bill Gates and Amazon are investing in \[…\] The post MuseLetter #398: Small Modular Nuclear… ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Spq8JNgH1Lya) _2026-05-22 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Habitat's Humpday MuseLetter](https://habitatforthearts.substack.com/p/habitats-humpday-museletter-85c) _2026-05-13 · habitat forthearts · Habitat's MuseLetter_ #33 ## [Museletter #397: The 2026 Energy Crisis and Our Wile E. Coyote Moment](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-397-the-2026-energy-crisis-and-our-wile-e-coyote-moment) _2026-04-30 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #397 / April 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download Printable PDF Version The 2026 Energy Crisis and Our Wile E. Coyote Moment Pop culture has long memorialized the Warner Brothers cartoon gag in which Wile E. Coyote, lured by his nemesis, the Roadrunner, races off a cliff. Instead of immediately falling, Coyote keeps running, then \[…\] The post Museletter #397: The 2026 Energy Crisis and Our… ## [Museletter #396: The Future of Forests](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-396-the-future-of-forests) _2026-03-31 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #396 / March 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The Future of Forests Our species’ origin and destiny are entangled with the roots and branches of trees. We evolved in and around trees, and we’ve learned to breed and plant them for their fruit, nuts, wood, and blossoms, taking their seeds with \[…\] The post Museletter #396: The Future of Forests appeared first on… ## [Museletter #395: The Empire Crumbles](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-395-the-empire-crumbles) _2026-02-24 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #395 / February 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The Empire Crumbles: Part I—The Big Picture In the wee hours of Monday, January 19, US president Donald Trump sent a now-infamous text message to the prime minister of Norway (full text and analysis here): “Considering your Country decided not to give me \[…\] The post Museletter #395: The Empire Crumbles appeared… ## [Museletter #394: Nourishing the Bioregional Economy](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-394-nourishing-the-bioregional-economy) _2026-01-21 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #394 / January 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Nourishing the Bioregional Economy: Essential Resources In a recent article I summarized arguments for reversing the trend toward globalization of economies and cultures, aiming instead for the flourishing of communities rooted in their bioregions (i.e., regions defined by characteristics of the natural environment… ## [Museletter #393: Electricity Price Squeeze: Something’s Going to Give](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-393-electricity-price-squeeze-somethings-going-to-give) _2025-12-29 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #393 / December 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Electricity Price Squeeze: Something’s Going to Give Using current economic trends to predict the future can be misleading, since all trends are subject to limits and countertrends. In this article, I’ll apply that truism to a trend that a lot of people are \[…\] The post Museletter #393: Electricity Price Squeeze:… ## [Museletter #392: What Futures Are Possible?](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-392-what-futures-are-possible) _2025-11-26 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #392 / November 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version What Futures Are Possible? People have been forecasting the future for as long as they’ve had language. Premodern ideas of what’s to come often featured either a catastrophic end of the world or an eventual paradisiacal condition of peace and plenty. This was true both \[…\] The post Museletter #392: What Futures Are… ## [Museletter #391: Gratitude in the Great Unraveling](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-391-gratitude-in-the-great-unraveling) _2025-10-29 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #391 / October 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Gratitude in the Great Unraveling Here’s a paradox. On one hand, terrible things are happening. Earth’s climate system is being destabilized, the oceans are turning acidic, wild animals are disappearing, economic inequality is soaring, politics are becoming more polarized and democracies more dysfunctional, \[…\] The… ## [Museletter #390: Peak Oil for Gen Z](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-390-peak-oil-for-gen-z) _2025-09-29 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #390 / September 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation Gen Z is a generation born into a world full of anxieties—from school shootings to climate Armageddon, to a pandemic and political violence. But I’m here to give you one more thing to worry about! \[…\] The post Museletter #390: Peak Oil for Gen Z appeared first on… ## [Museletter #389: Bioregioning Is Our Future](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-389-bioregioning-is-our-future) _2025-08-29 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #389 / August 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Lately I’ve been reading Andrew Schelling’s Tracks Along the Left Coast, a biography of linguist, anthropologist, and anarchist Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950). De Angulo was a character worth knowing about. His affluent Spanish parents gave him a civilized upbringing in fashionable Paris; nevertheless, he had a wild \[…\]… ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WT4Kwwn8C115) _2025-08-29 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Museletter #388: Let’s (Not) Choose Sides and Fight](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-388-lets-not-choose-sides-and-fight) _2025-07-30 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #388 / July 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version In the course of human events there are times when everyone seems determined to pick sides and brawl. A prime example was the First World War: over a dozen countries divided into two camps—the Allied Powers and the Central Powers—and fought for four \[…\] The post Museletter #388: Let’s (Not) Choose Sides and Fight… ## [Museletter #387: AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-387-ai-utopia-ai-apocalypse-and-ai-reality) _2025-06-23 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #387 / June 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality Recent articles and books about artificial intelligence (AI) offer images of the future that align like iron filings around two magnetic poles—utopia and apocalypse. On one hand, AI is said to be leading us toward a \[…\] The post Museletter #387: AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI… ## [Museletter #386: A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-386-a-dead-world-plastic-wrapped-to-preserve-freshness) _2025-05-28 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #386 / May 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness In the classic 1967 film The Graduate, a family friend of lead character Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) offers him career advice: “One word. Plastics!” I was 16 when The Graduate was released, and, \[…\] The post Museletter #386: A Dead World,… ## [Museletter #385: The End of Big Solutions](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-385-the-end-of-big-solutions) _2025-04-28 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #385 / April 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The End of Big Solutions The world has changed dramatically since the start of the second Trump administration. But how best to describe this shift? Many see it as potentially the end of American democracy, or the end of the Atlantic Alliance and \[…\] The post Museletter #385: The End of Big Solutions appeared first on… ## [Museletter #384: The Evolution of Modernity](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-384-the-evolution-of-modernity) _2025-03-24 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #384 / March 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The Evolution of Modernity The human world of the early 21st century is dominated by science, cities, and high technology. However, both our modern way of life and our way of thinking about the world sprang up only within the past several centuries. Today’s \[…\] The post Museletter #384: The Evolution of Modernity… ## [Museletter #383: Putting Nature at the Center](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-383-putting-nature-at-the-center) _2025-02-26 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #383 / February 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Putting Nature at the Center Life may be unique to Earth. Even if single-celled organisms can readily evolve in conditions that exist on millions or billions of other planets, we have no actual evidence that complex, multi-cellular life exists anywhere else in the \[…\] The post Museletter #383: Putting Nature at the… ## [Museletter #382: Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good?](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-382-are-we-too-smart-for-our-own-good) _2025-01-29 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #382 / January 2025 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)—who, I’m told, was a very smart person—concluded, late in life, that high intelligence may be a lethal mutation. In this article, we’ll explore some reasons for this startling and paradoxical \[…\] The post Museletter #382: Are We Too… ## [Museletter #381: Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-381-environmental-political-collapse-accelerates) _2024-12-18 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #381 / December 2024 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear reader, Thank you for your interest in, and support for my ongoing explorations of topics related to the survival of nature and humanity. I hope you take time this holiday season to enjoy our amazingly beautiful world, and to connect with people \[…\] The post Museletter #381: Environmental-Political Collapse… ## [Museletter #380: Envisioning a Livable Future](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-380-envisioning-a-livable-future) _2024-11-25 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #380 / November 2024 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Envisioning a Livable Future Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK government, recently wrote that, “On our present path, civilization as we know it will disappear.” More than a century’s worth of sustainability research has documented how humanity is undermining \[…\] The post Museletter #380:… ## [Museletter #379: Beyond Growth](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-379-beyond-growth) _2024-10-31 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #379 / October 2024 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Beyond Growth: A Journey through the Landscape of Sustainable Economics Growth is a story of success—until it isn’t. In most people’s minds, “growth” is inevitably associated with biological development: food crops and babies grow. In those instances, growth is understood to be good—though \[…\] The post Museletter… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MMvIQ961vUMw) _2024-10-31 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Museletter #378: Us vs. them – Understanding the roots of political polarization and what you can do about it](https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-378-us-vs-them) _2024-09-24 · Richard Heinberg · Richard Heinberg_ MuseLetter #378 / September 2024 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Us vs. them: Understanding the roots of political polarization and what you can do about it July 13, 2024, Butler, PA: Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt at an election rally; the gunman and a bystander are killed, with \[…\] The post Museletter #378: Us…