Table of Contents
- REVIEWS BY DAN ARMSTRONG:
- THE DISPOSSESSED
- Ursula Le Guin wrote many noteworthy pieces of science fiction, but this one is her masterpiece.
- THE TRANSITION DOCUMENT: Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture
- Harry MacCormack has written an important book about the most crucial task of our time–the transition from conventional agriculture to organic farming practices.
- 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 a disturbing 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:
- ADAM AND I: One Real-life Aspie's Personal Response to the Movie Adam
- If you haven't heard of Asperger's syndrome, then you need to read this movie review. If you have heard of Asperger's syndrome, than you also need to read this review. The point being–everyone should read this review!
- 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.
- THE BOOK AS SCULPTURE:
- ART AND BOOKS
- This is a fascinating pictoral of the book used as sculpture.
- REVIEWS BY FRANK KAMINSKI:
- SOUND TRUTH & CORPORATE MYTH$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- "As dire as the Deepwater Horizon spill is already, its harm could be magnified still further by a bungled or ill-considered cleanup response. That's exactly what happened with the Exxon Valdez argues marine biologist and oil spill activist Riki Ott, who has been aptly called the Erin Brockovich of that earlier disaster. Ott has written two books showing how gross misconduct on the part of Exxon (now Exxon Mobil Corp.) in the wake of Valdez created a secondary disaster that was just as damaging as the first one. These books, titled NOT ONE DROP and SOUND TRUTH & CORPORATE MYTH$, exhaustively document how Exxon's actions compounded the oil's harm and destroyed the health of thousands of cleanup workers."
- THRIVING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY
- "The more research you do into the subject of sustainability, the more you realize that talking about sustainability is like talking about matter. It's so wide-ranging, multifaceted and pervasive a topic that it's hard even to know where to begin" writes Frank Kaminski. "Given what a sweeping category sustainability is, author and noted sustainability expert Andrés Edwards is to be commended for distilling it down into two easily digestible volumes for lay readers: THE SUSTAINABILITY REVOLUTION and THRIVING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY." Kaminski reviews the second of these titles here.
- THE BIOCHAR DEBATE: Charcol's Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility
- "It's called biochar, and if you believe its most ardent supporters, then this unassuming, fine black powder is a vital tool in the solutions to some of humanity's most urgent ecological threats, including climate change, peak oil, soil degradation and water pollution due to agrochemicals. However, if you side with biochar's staunch opponents, then it seems like a fledgling, poorly understood technology with real risks, including the displacement of entire communities and the serious jeopardizing of world food security and biodiversity. Which view is correct? That's the question that sustainability expert James Bruges, who is cautiously optimistic about biochar, investigates in his book THE BIOCHAR DEBATE."
- THREE NOVELS: PRAIRIE FIRE, TAMING THE DRAGON, and THE CARHULLAN ARMY
- Frank Kaminski takes an in depth look a two novels by Mud City Press' Dan Armstrong, PRAIRIE FIRE and TAMING THE DRAGON, and one by Sarah Hall, THE CARHULLAN ARMY. "I like Armstrong's two novels a lot," writes Kaminski. "Set concurrently in the near future, but on opposite sides of the globe, they tell two halves of the same story. It's a complex, sharply written, melodramatic suspense yarn that manages to be at once as entertaining as any kind of Jason Bourne/Ethan Hunt adventure and as serious a treatment of today's issues as an exposé by Upton Sinclair."
- More Book Reviews by Frank Kaminski.
- Frank Kaminski has been a steady contributor to the Energy Bulletin. All of his his EB book reviews are archived here.
- REVIEWS BY ED O'ROURKE:
- AGENDA FOR A NEW ECONOMY: Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
- "Many have written about the economic meltdown's causes and have proposed significant reforms," observes Ed O'Rourke. "David C. Korten's book, AGENDA FOR A NEW ECONOMY, draws a roadmap to a green economy that will deal with climate change and bring a more just world."
- THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
- "Fareed Zakaria explores the evolution of democracy in various countries," writes Ed O''Rourke, "and says there may be a point in that evolution when too much transparency and too much public access can be detrimental to the democratic process."
- THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER
- Vincent Buglosi details the case for a murder indictment against George W. Bush.
- OUTSMART YOUR CANCER: Alternative Non-toxic Treatments that Work
- Tanya Harper Pierce offers an alternative view of the treatment of cancer.
- INTERNAL COMBUSTION: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives
- Edwin Black tells the story behind the rise of automobiles and the demise of street cars in America.
- 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.
- OPEN SUBMISSION BOOK REVIEWS:
- PUDDLE OF LOVE
- "If you're looking for white-knuckle suspense, to enjoy a twisted guilty pleasure, and to open your mind to fresh perspectives on moral dilemmas, look no further than PUDDLE OF LOVE," writes reviewer Giles Westerfield. "It will not disappoint."
- EVERGREEN
- "The environment, and what we do about it, or what we should do, is at the heart of this new science fiction novel EVERGREEN," writes reviewer Linda Bona. "Even though author Bruce Golden takes us to another planet–a planet of his creation, we know the lessons learned by the characters there apply equally to the planet Earth."
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