1) National & Local Government Policy
Initiatives:
a. The Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts,
Mitigation and Risk Management SAIC Report for the US
Department of Energy 2005. (Download it from here:
www.oildepletionprotocol.org/files/SAIC%20Report.pdf)
b. Planning for Renewable Energy A companion Guide to
PPS22 from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
(Creating Sustainable Communities) ISBN 1 85112 754 2
c.
www.dti.gov.uk/renewable - Department of Trade and Industry
renewables website with facts, figures and examples of the
different technologies
d. For full text on the Merton Rule see
www.merton.gov.uk/udp/acrobat/Udpfinal.pdf
e. See
www.claren.org.uk
for an example of a Community Renewables Initiative
f. Information on Somerset County Council becoming a
Transition Local Authority:
http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/28/something-wonderful-just-happened-in-somerset/
g. Stern Review on the economics of climate change
downloadable in sections from the
www.hm-treasury/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_Report.cfm
h. Sustainable Communities Act 2007: A Guide
downloadable from
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/sustainablecommunitiesact
i. Sustainable Communities Act 2007 downloadable
from
www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2007/ukpga_20070023_en_1
2) Impact of Climate Change and/or Peak Oil on the Human Food
Chain & Communities:
a. Six Degrees Our Future in a Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas ISBN -13 978-0-00-720904-0
b. Eating Fossil Fuels Dale Allen Pfeiffer ISBN
0 86571 565 3
c. The Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler ISBN
1843544547
d. DVD: Escape from Suburbia
e. DVD: The End of Suburbia
3) Peak Oil:
a. Out of Gas David Goodstein ISBN 0-393-05857-3
b. The Partys Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial
Societies Richard Heinberg ISBN 1-902636-45-7
c. The Final Energy Crisis Edited by Andrew
McKillop with Shelia Newman ISBN 0-7453-2092-9
d. The End of Oil Paul Roberts ISBN
0-7475-7081-7
e. Twilight in the Desert Matthew R Simmons ISBN
047173876X
f. High Noon for Natural Gas Julian Darley ISBN
1-931498-53-9
g. Hubberts Peak The Impending World Oil Shortage
Kenneth S Deffeyes ISBN 0 691 09086 6
h. DVD: A Crude Awakening
i. DVD: Crude Impact
j. DVD: The Oil Factor
k. DVD: Peak Oil Imposed by Nature
4) Action Plans to deal with Climate Change/Peak Oil:
a. Heat George Monbiot ISBN 978 0 7139 9923 5
b. Contraction & Convergence The Global Solution to
Climate Change Aubrey Meyer ISBN 1-478379-3 - for more
on the Contraction and Convergence framework go to
www.gci.org.uk
c. Go to
www.zerocarbonbritain.com for a plan by the Center for
Alternative Technology for a Carbon Neutral Britain
by 2027
d. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local
Resilience Rob Hopkins ISBN 1900322188
e. Community Supported Agriculture:
www.soilassociation.org/csa and
www.localfoodworks.org
f. Peak Oil Prep Mick Winter ISBN 0 9659000 4 5
g. Powerdown Richard Heinberg ISBN 1-902636-63-5
h. Energy Beyond Oil Paul Mobbs ISBN 1 905237 00
6
i. Winning the Oil Endgame Amory B Lovins ISBN
1-84407-194-4 (www.oilendgame.com)
j. Plan B 3.0 Lester R Brown ISBN 0393330877
k. Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and
Climate Change Pat Murphy ISBN 0865716070
l. Oil Depletion Protocol:
www.oildepletionprotocol.org
m. DVD: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
n. DVD: Energy Crossroads
o. DVD: Wind Power in the UK"
5) Sustainable Economics and the Community:
a. The New Economics Foundation:
www.neweconomics.org
b. The Dollar Crisis Richard Duncan ISBN
0-470-82170-1
c. The Growth Illusion Richard Douthwaite ISBN
1-870098-76-5
d. Growth Fetish Clive Hamilton ISBN
0-7453-2250-6
e. Limits to Growth the 30 year update Donella
Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows ISBN 1 84407 144 8
NOTE: Most of these titles are available from the
Transition Town High Wycombe Steering Committee.
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