Authors:Rob Hopkins,  Richard Heinberg,
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: transition, resilience, guides, local, dependency, handbook, oil
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1900322188
ISBN-13: 9781900322188

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencie

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Keywords: carbon, world, post, actions, options, powerdown
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0865715106
ISBN-13: 9780865715103

If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the US, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a punishing game of "Last One Standing."The alternative is "Powerdown," a strategy that will require tremendous effort and economic sacrifice in order to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, distribute res

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Keywords: industrial, societies, fate, war, over, oil, party
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0865715297
ISBN-13: 9780865715295

The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party’s Over, Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how comp

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: TEMPLE LODGE PUBLISH
Keywords: over, party
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1905570007
ISBN-13: 9781905570003

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: blackout
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0865716560
ISBN-13: 9780865716568

"Blackout is an important and timely book. In the form of this compact volume, one of the best and most productive peak oil authors working today has turned his customary scholarhsip, wisdom, wit and writing prowess to some of the most ciritical issues now unfolding on our planet. "- Frank Kaminski, Energy Bulletin Coal fuels about 50% of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country’s total energy. China and India’s ferocious economic growth is based on coal-generated electricity. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society (2006)
Keywords: oil, terrorism, economic, collapse, wars, avert, depletion, protocol, plan
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 190557004X
ISBN-13: 9781905570041

Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: Quest Books
Keywords: rhythms, festival, ceremony, seasonal, earth, solstice, honoring, celebrate
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1993-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0835606937
ISBN-13: 9780835606936

Practical suggestions for ecstatic seasonal renewal by celebrating the solstices.