Translation of sign in photo:
We are at a critical moment in the history of the earth, in which humanity must choose its future. We must create a society where nature is respected. To move forward we must recognize the diversity of cultures and life forms. We are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny, sustainable with respect.
Peak oil and resource depletion
Websites:
- Peak prosperity: A great site with a crash course of 22 short videos explaining the limits we face.
- 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
- Energy in the real world
Articles:
- Arithmetic, population and energy by Dr. Albert Bartlett
- Peak Oil Primer from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
Report:
- Searching for a miracle: Net Energy Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society, by Richard Heinberg
- Peaking of world oil production: Impacts, mitigation and risk management
Speech:
Power point presentation:
- Peak Oil UK: Entering the age of oil depletion, by Dr. Colin Campbell (Wait a bit until presentation begins.)
Economy for a future with fewer natural resources
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
Online video:
- Global financial system: On life support, a presentation at the June 2014 Energy Systems Conference with Roger Boyd
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
Documentary:
- Money as Debt: This 47 minute video clearly explains the history of money and why the way we create money today must change
Issues: