|
|
MUST READ: The
Big Picture
http://www.energyskeptic.com/Book_List.xls |
|
Walter Youngquist |
Geodestinies: The
Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations & Individuals |
|
James H Kunstler |
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging
Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century |
|
Garrett Hardin |
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and
Population Taboos |
|
David Pimentel |
Food, Energy, and Society |
|
John Perlin |
A |
|
Clive Ponting |
A Green History of the World: The Environment and
the Collapse of Great Civilizations |
|
Peter Corning |
Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate
of Humankind |
|
Ward & Brownllee |
Rare Earth Why
Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe |
|
Laurie Garrett |
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public
Health |
|
|
Science & Critical thinking The world's major problems
require scientific literacy |
|
Natalie Angier |
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics
of Science |
|
Skeptic Magazine |
Critical thinking, how we know what we know, how to avoid
being too gullible or too critical |
|
|
OIL & GAS: how integral they are to our lives,
why they're so difficult to replace, history
|
|
Kenneth Deffeyes |
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's
Peak |
|
Kenneth Deffeyes |
Hubbert's Peak:
The Impending World Oil Shortage |
|
Matthew Simmons |
Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi Oil Shock
and the World Economy |
|
Julian Darley |
High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis |
|
Daniel Yergin |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and
Power [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
|
|
Fossil Fuels and Food:
How far have we overshot carrying capacity? |
|
D. & M. Fisher |
The Nitrogen Bomb.
April 2001. Discover magazine |
|
Gever, Kauffman, et al |
Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the
Coming Decades |
|
Vaclav Smil |
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber,
Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production |
|
Rich Pirog, et al |
Food, Fuel, and Freeways http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff/ppp/food_mil.pdf |
|
|
Can we avoid WW III as energy declines and times get
harder? |
|
Lutz Kleveman |
The New Great Game:
Blood and Oil in |
|
Michael Klare |
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict |
|
Chalmers Johnson |
The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the
End of the Republic |
|
Robert Baer |
Sleeping With the Devil: How |
|
Ahmed Rashid |
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in |
|
Peter Turchin |
War and Peace and War. The Life Cycles of Imperial
Nations. |
|
David Berreby |
Us and Them. Understanding Your Tribal Mind. |
|
|
The most likely short-term "solutions" |
|
Robert L. Hirsch |
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation,
& Risk Management. The "solutions", which need to be
started at least 10 years ahead of Peak Oil, are: Heavy Oil, Gas-to-Liquids /
Liquified Natural Gas, Enhanced Oil Recovery,
Efficient Vehicles, and Coal Liquids www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf |
|
Howard Bucknell III |
Energy and the National Defense. [Déjà vu --- we've been through this
before! This is an extraordinary guide
to how people dealt with the energy crisis in the 70's. Bucknell, like
Hirsch, perceived this as a liquid fuels crisis. The same debates, political inertia,
solutions, etc as now went on. Those
who don't know history are doomed to repeat it...] |
|
Department of Energy |
Standby Gasoline Rationing Plan |
|
|
Filling in the
gap between Energy Supply and Demand |
|
Feral Metallurgist |
Other sources of energy cannot deliver sufficient
surpluses to replace the potent portable energy we know as gasoline and
diesel. It is not generally understood that poorer quality energy sources can
be critically dependant upon oil for their extraction, processing and
distribution. In other words, oil is the precursor for other sources of
energy; gas, coal, nuclear, solar, hydro, because these require oil fuel to
create and maintain infrastructure. It also gives them the illusion of being
"profitable".
http://www.unknownnews.net/040712a-fm.html |
|
Buckminster Fuller |
Energy slave unit = avg output
of a man doing 150,000 foot-pounds of work per day 250 days per year. In
low-energy societies, nonhuman energy slaves are horses, oxen, windmills,
riverboats. Now, the average American has more than 8,000 energy-slaves at
his or her disposal, and these slaves can work under extreme conditions: no
sleep, 5,000° F, at 400,000 pounds per square inch pressure, etc” |
|
|
Oil &
Natural Gas |
|
|
Oil is the main transportation energy source on land, air,
and water; and the major feedstock for over half a million products, such as
plastics, paint, medicine, roads (bitumen), solvents, inks, chemicals, etc.
Natural gas is the feedstock for fertilizers that allow an extra five billion
people to be alive than could otherwise exist, is how half of Americans heat
and cook at home, and almost 25% of electricity. |
|
|
Shale Oil |
|
Randy Udall, & Steve Andrews |
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in |
|
|
Fusion is the
only possible solution that can replace fossil fuels |
|
Martin Hoffert, et al |
Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy
for a Greenhouse Planet |
|
|
Hydrogen. |
|
Joseph J. Romm |
Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race
to Save the Climate |
|
U.Bossel & B.Eliasson |
Energy and the Hydrogen
Economy www.methanol.org/pdfFrame.cfm?pdf=HydrogenEconomyReport2003.pdf |
|
Alice Friedemann |
The Hydrogen Economy: Energy
and Economic Black Hole http://www.energybulletin.net/4541.html |
|
|
Alternative
Energy |
|
Howard Hayden |
The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the
World |
|
|
Biomass |
|
Alice Friedemann |
Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic
and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and a Threat
to |
|
D. Pimentel, T. Patzek |
Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass,
and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and
Sunflower |
|
|
Wind |
|
E.ON Netz Corp. |
http://www.nowhinashwindfarm.co.uk/EON_Netz_Windreport_e_eng.pdf German wind farm realities |
|
Incoteco ( |
http://www.glebemountaingroup.org/Articles/DanishLessons.pdf Danish windpower |
|
Pacific NW National Laboratory |
Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the |
|
|
Nuclear |
|
H Hirsch, O Becker, M
Schneider, A Froggatt |
Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of
Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/nuclearreactorhazards.pdf |
|
Richard Wolfson |
Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear
Technology |
|
|
Infrastructure
New energy sources must maintain the infrastructure we built when
oil had EROEI of 40-100 |
|
Charles Hall et al. |
Hydrocarbons and the Evolution of Human Culture |
|
Brian Hayes |
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial
Landscape |
|
Kate Ascher |
The Works: Anatomy of a City |
|
ASCE |
American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card for |
|
Env Protection Agency |
The Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap
Analysis. 2002. Office of Water |
|
|
Politics Why
it's so hard to find a way out of our situation: the Human Political Animal |
|
Joel Bakan |
The Corporation The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power |
|
|
Tobacco War: Inside the |
|
|
Food Politics How
the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health |
|
Jack Doyle |
Taken for a Ride: |
|
James C. Scott |
Seeing Like a State.
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. |
|
|
Human Ecology
Why it's so hard to find a way out of our situation: homo sapiens
in nature |
|
Steven A. LeBlanc |
Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble
Savage |
|
William Catton |
Overshoot |
|
Mathis Wackernagel |
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on
the Earth |
|
Tim Flannery |
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the |
|
Judith Shapiro |
Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the
Environment in Revolutionary |
|
Michael Williams |
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global
Crisis |
|
Tim Flannery |
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of |
|
|
Topsoil Cheap energy is hiding the
destruction of topsoil, i.e. you can grow tomatoes on rocks with fertilizer |
|
David Montgomery |
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations |
|
David W. Wolfe |
Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of
Subterranean |
|
R. Ratta, R. Lal |
Soil Quality and Soil Erosion |
|
N. Brady, R. Weil |
The Nature and Properties of Soils |
|
|
Water
|
|
John Opie |
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land |
|
Jeffrey F. Mount |
|
|
Sandra Postel |
Pillar of Sand, Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? |
|
|
Resource Allocation |
|
David Landes |
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So
Rich and Some So Poor |
|
Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
|
|
Population
|
|
Roy Beck & Leon Kolankiewicz |
The Environmental Movement’s Retreat From Advocating |
|
Garrett Hardin |
The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia The
Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, |
|
Bill McKibben |
A Special Moment in History May 1998 |
|
All links at: |
www.mnforsustain.org/table_of_contents.htm especially those by William Catton about Malthus |
|
Thomas Homer-Dixon |
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence |
|
|
Global Warming |
|
Spencer R. Weart |
The Discovery of Global Warming |
|
John D. Cox |
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means
For Our Future |
|
Brian Fagan |
The Little Ice Age: How climate made history 1300 -
1850 |
|
Brian Fagan |
The Long Summer. How Climate Changed Civilization |
|
The |
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/ |
|
|
Extinction
When energy shortages increase in length and severity after 2011,
will we be able to stop ourselves from burning coal as a substitute? 95% of life died in the Permian
extinction. Burning coal could change
the air and water chemistry enough to make this happen again. |
|
Peter Ward |
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass
Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future |
|
Peter Ward, et. al. |
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's
Ancient Atmosphere |
|
John Atcheson |
Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb |
|
James Lovelock |
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the
Fate of Humanity |
|
|
Societies in Decline What happens after financial and/or
energy collapses -- how do people cope?
What careers will be best in an outsourced, resourced-depleted world? |
|
Dmitry Orlov |
|
|
Peter Godwin |
|
|
Oxfam |
|
|
Dale Allen Pfeiffer |
|
|
Timothy Egan |
The worst hard time: the untold story of those who
survived the Dust Bowl |
|
|
Collapse The
use of non-renewable fossil fuel to power civilization is a singular event -
could collapse from energy shortages come sooner than most people
expect? |
|
Robert Constanza, et al |
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History
and Future of People on Earth |
|
Donella Meadows |
Nothing is So Powerful As an Exponential Whose Time Has
Come http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php?display_article=vn280exponentialed |
|
Albert Bartlett |
Arithmetic, Population, and Energy http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/symposium/bartlett/bartlett.html |
|
Jared Diamond |
Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
|
|
Health Care Take
care of yourself, health care will decline as society grows poorer |
|
R. Barker Bausell |
Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary
& Alternative Medicine |
|
Ray Moynihan |
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest
Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients |
|
Steve Salerno |
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made |
|
Merrill Goozner |
The $800 Million Pill. The Truth Behind the Cost of
New Drugs |
|
|
1) Safe Food
2) What to Eat |
|
|
Evolutionary Psychology & Biology |
|
Matt Ridley |
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the
Evolution of Cooperation |
|
Judith Harris |
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality |
|
Judith Harris |
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the
Way They Do |
|
Geoffrey Miller |
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the
Evolution of Human Nature |
|
David Barash |
Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in
Animals and People |
|
Sarah Hrdy |
Mother Nature.
A history of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection |
|
Steven Pinker |
How the Mind Works |
|
|
Violence |
|
Azar Gat |
War in Human Civilization. |
|
|
War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful
Savage |
|
James Waller |
Becoming Evil. How ordinary people commit genocide
and mass killing |
|
Philip Gourevitch |
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed
With Our Families: Stories from |
|
Jack Weatherford |
Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World |
|
Daniel Goldhagen |
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans
& the Holocaust |
|
Wrangham & Peterson |
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human
Violence |
|
Michael Ghiglieri |
The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male
Violence |
|
Richard Rhodes |
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick
Criminologist |
|
|
Science |
|
Brian Greene |
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden
Dimensions, & the Quest for the Ultimate Theory |
|
Stephen Hawking |
A Brief History of Time |
|
Laurie Garrett |
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a
World Out of Balance |
|
|
BioInvasion & BioDiversity |
|
Michael Novacek, et al |
The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts |
|
|
Critical Thinking |
|
Dietrich Dorner |
The Logic of Failure |
|
Nicholas Capaldi |
The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical
Thinking. How to Win an Argument, Defend a Case, …. |
|
Robert Cialdini |
Influence: The Art of Persuasion |
|
Carl Sagan |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark |
|
Michael Shermer |
Why People Believe Weird Things. Pseudoscience,
superstition and other confusions |
|
|
Evolution |
|
Charles Darwin |
On the Origin of Species & The Descent of Man |
|
Jonathan Weiner |
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our
Time [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
|
Carl Zimmer |
Parasite Rex. Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's
Most Dangerous Creatures |
|
|
Putting it All Together |
|
Edward O. Wilson |
Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge |
|
|
Industrial Agriculture
|
|
Eric Schlosser |
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal |
|
Michael Maren |
The Road to Hell
The ravaging effects of foreign aid and international charity |
|
Steven Stoll |
The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the
Industrial Countryside in |
|
|
Beasts of the Field. A Narrative History of |
|
Richard Walker |
The Conquest of Bread. 150 years of Agribusiness in
|
|
Julie Guthman |
Agrarian dreams. The paradox of organic farming in |
|
Kimbrell (editor) |
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial
Agriculture |
|
Jim Hightower |
Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: A report of the
Agribusiness Accountability Project on the Failure of America's Land Grant
College Complex |
|
Richard C. Fluck |
Agricultural Energetics |
|
Carolyn Johnsen |
Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog
Farms in |
|
|
The Future of Farming |
|
John Jeavons |
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts,
Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on |
|
Jim Bender |
Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming |
|
B. C. Mollison |
Permaculture: A
Designers' Manual |
|
|
The Joys and Hardships of Family Farms |
|
Mildred Kalish |
Little Heathens. Hard times & high spirits on
an Iowa Farm during the great depression. |
|
Barbara Greenwood |
A Pioneer
Sampler : The daily life of a pioneer family in 1840 (illustrated, good for tweens) |
|
M. R. Montgomery |
A Cow's Life The
Surprising History of Cattle |
|
David Masumoto |
Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons on my Family Farm |
|
Gene Logsdon |
The Contrary Farmer |
|
|
Natural History |
|
Susan McCarthy |
Becoming a Tiger: How baby animals learn to live in
the wild |
|
Carl Safina |
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival |
|
Robert Sapolsky |
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's
Unconventional Life Among the Baboons |
|
Barry Lopez |
Of Wolves and Men |
|
Holldobler & Wilson |
Journey to the Ants |
|
Claude Combes |
The Art of Being a Parasite |
|
James Gould |
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of
Intelligence |
|
|
Rolling Back the Clock Who knows how far back
civilization will go? |
|
Steven Vogel |
Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle |
|
Joanna Stratton |
Pioneer Women: Voices from the |
|
Richard White |
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own. A New History of the American West. |
|
Stephen Ambrose |
Undaunted Courage.
Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the
Opening of the American West |
|
Robert Massie |
Peter the Great: His Life and World |
|
Barbara Tuchman |
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century |
|
Jean Gimpel |
Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the
Middle Ages |
|
George Huppert |
After the Black Death: A Social History of Early
Modern |
|
|
How Rich Nations Steal From Poor Nations |
|
Susan George |
Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire |
|
Moises Naim |
Illicit. How
Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
(comment: the poor from the rich) |
|
|
Morality & Ethics |
|
Michael Shermer |
The Science of Good & Evil : Why People Cheat,
Gossip, Care, Share, & Follow the Golden Rule |
|
|
Fire |
|
Stephen J. Pyne |
Fire in |
|
Stephen J. Pyne |
Burning Bush, A Fire History of |
|
Murry |
Jumping Fire.
A Smoke Jumper's memoir of fighting wildfire |
|
|
Inventing a New Society
What worked, what failed, and why? |
|
Eleanor Agnew |
Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to
Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back |
|
Mark Holloway |
Utopian Communities in |
|
Robert Hine |
|
|
Donald E. Pitzer |
|
|
Helena Norberg-Hodge |
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh |
|
|
What to do |
|
Howard T. Odum |
The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies |
|
Ted Trainer |
The Alternative, Sustainable Society; the Simpler Way |
|
Richard Heinberg |
The Oil Depletion Protocol : A Plan to Avert Oil
Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse |
|
Richard Heinberg |
Powerdown : Options
and Actions for a Post-Carbon World |
|
Richard Heinberg |
The Party's Over: Oil, war, and the Fate of
Industrial Societies |
|
|
Trashing the Planet |
|
Michael Harris |
Lament For An Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic
Cod Fishery: A True Story |
|
Thomas Hayden |
Trashing the Oceans http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm |
|
W.Rathje & C.Murphy |
Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our
garbage tells us about ourselves |
|
WorldWatch Institute |
State of the World 2004 |
|
|
Groups involved with the issue of Peak Oil |
|
Post Carbon Institute |
http://www.postcarbon.org/ select outposts or get
involved |
|
Oil awareness |
http://oilawareness.meetup.com/ |
|
|
Higher Education in |
|
|
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is
Crippling Undergraduate Education |
|
|
Investment |
|
William Bonner |
Financial Reckoning Day |
|
William Bonner |
Empire of Debt
The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis |
|
Stephen Leeb |
The Oil Factor How oil controls the economy &
your financial future |
|
Van K. Tharp |
Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom |
|
John R. Talbot |
The Coming Crash in the Housing Market |
|
David / Tom Gardner |
The Motley Fool Investment Workbook |
|
|
Converging Storms Cheap
energy allowed us to hold environmental problems at bay, avoid the
consequences of destroying and poisoning fisheries, forests, biodiversity,
soil, water; and having a population that exceeds carrying capacity. |
|
Donella Meadows |
The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update |
|
N. Middleton |
World Atlas of Desertification |
|
Edward O. Wilson |
1) The Future of
Life 2) The Diversity of Life |
|
Richard Ellis |
The |
|
Rick Weiss |
Ocean species depleted by fishing: Worldwide
numbers down 90 percent since the 1950s
May 15, 2003 Washington.Post |
|
John McCormick |
Acid Earth: The Global Threat of Acid Pollution |
|
Chris Bright |
Life out of Bounds: BioInvasion
in a Borderless World |
|
Laurie Garrett |
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a
World Out of Balance |
|
Robert Glennon |
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping & the Fate
of |
|
Virginia Abernethy |
Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our
Future |
|
Theo Colborn |
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our
Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story |
|
Dan Fagin |
Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry
manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health |
|
Jennifer Viegas |
1,000 Times Too Many Humans? http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031124/humans_print.html |
|
Tim Radford |
Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1447921,00.html |
|
Hopfenberg & Pimentel |
Human population numbers as a function of food
supply. 2001. Environ Dev Sustain
3(1):1-15 |
|
Sierra Club |
First Anniversary of Superfund Bankruptcy |
|
Roger Segelken |
40% of world deaths due to environment factors http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/10.15.98/env-death.html |
|
Thomas Hayden |
Trashing the Oceans An armada of plastic rides the
waves, & sea creatures are suffering November 4 |
|
G. Luft & A. Korin |
Terrorism Goes to Sea Nov/Dec 2004 Foreign Affairs |