Table of Contents
- BOOK REVIEWS:
- THE DISPOSSESSED
- Ursula Le Guin wrote many noteworthy pieces of science fiction, but this one is her masterpiece.
- THE FINAL EMPIRE
- William Kötke's visonary classic is now out in a second edition. Read review. Access entire book online.
- EATING FOSSIL FUELS
- Dale Allen Pfeiffer adds an important corollary to the thesis of peak oil.
- OSWALD'S TALE
- Norman Mailer uses a masterful psychological portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald to re-visit Dealey Plaza, November 22, 1963.
- SUSTAINABLE OPERATING SYSTEMS: The Post Petrol Paradigm
- Michael Richards details what is necessary to create a sustainable world as we transition out of the age of oil.
- GARDEN PLANET
- William Kötke takes a clear clean look at rebuilding after the collapse of empire.
- FILM REVIEWS:
- WHAT A WAY TO GO
- T.S. Bennett and Sally Erickson's documentary "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" is a grim and emotional view of our world through the lens of peak oil, climate change, and population overshoot.
- REVIEWS BY ED O'ROURKE:
- PLAN B 3.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION
- Lester R. Brown, one of the most intelligent and outspoken advocates for planet Earth, lays out his latest plan for saving civilization from ourselves.
- THE GREAT TURNING: From Empire to Earth Community
- This is David C. Korten's latest and most important book, verifying that, "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
- THE SECRET HISOTRY OF THE WAR ON CANCER
- Devra Davis recounts the history of manufacturer's hiding or deliberately obscuring the harmful effects of their products.
- OUR FINAL HOUR
- Great Britain's top astrophysicist, Sir Martin Rees, issues a "a scientist's warning: How terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century–on Earth and beyond."
- NONVIOLENCE: TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS FROM THE HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA
- Mark Kurlansky recounts the history of conscientious objection in America.
- HELL AND HIGH WATER: Global Warming–The Solution and the Politics–And What We Should Do
- Joseph Romm gives a detailed look at climate change and what we can do about it.
- CRADLE TO CRADLE: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- William McDonough and Michael Braungart tell us how to detoxify the things we manufacture.
- WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
- David C. Korten provides a perspective on the influence of large corporations in twenty-first century society.
- HEAT: HOW TO STOP THE PLANET FROM BURNING
- British Journalist George Monbiot offers his ideas on how Great Britain can do her part in fighting climate change.
- NEMESIS: THE LAST DAYS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
- Chalmers Johnson gives us a look inside the CIA in the third book of his Blowback Trilogy.
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