Resources on peak oil, economy for future with fewer natural resources
Peak oil and resource depletion
Websites:
- Crash Concepts: A great site with a crash course of 22 short videos explaining the limits we face.
- Life after the oil crash
- Evolutionary psychology and peak oil: Peak oil and its societal effects
- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
- Wolf at the Door: The Beginner's Guide to Peak Oil
- Planet for Life
- The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
- The View from the Peak, data on peak oil
- The Oil Drum, a great, regularly updated peak oil site
Articles:
- Arithmetic, population and energy by Dr. Albert Bartlett
- The peak oil versus globalization smackdown by Andrew Leonard
- Peak Oil Primer from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
Speech:
Power point presentation:
- Peak Oil UK: Entering the age of oil depletion, by Dr. Colin Campbell
Books:
- The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement
- Economics, ecology, ethics: Essays toward a steady-state economy edited by Herman E Daly, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1973
- For the common good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future, by Herman E Daly and John B Cobb Jr., Beacon Press, 1994
- Beyond growth, by Herman E Daly, Beacon Press 1996
- Ecological economics: Principles and applications, by Herman E Daly and Joshua Farley, Island Press, 2004
- Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future by Bill McKibben
- The bridge at the edge of the world: Capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008.
Websites:
- The simpler way, a website by Ted Trainer on problems and possible solutions
- Community wealth, local organizations in the U.S. working to strengthen local economies
- The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
- Post Carbon Institute, good, current articles on peak oil and adaptation
- Relocalize.net, communities working to localize their economies
- Transition culture, all about transition towns and beyond
- Permaculture.org
Articles:
- Manifesto on global economic transitions
- Green economics primer by Frank de Jong
- A consumption manifesto: The top ten principles of good consumption
- Steady state economics by Herman Daly
- CASSE position on economic growth
- The end of money by Chris Martenson, PhD
- Green economics: Turning mainstream thinking on its head by Thomas Prugh
Power point presentation:
- Moving toward a less consumptive economy, by Michael Renner and World Watch Institute
- Money as Debt: This 47 minute video clearly explains the history of money and why the way we create money today must change.