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“Future Scenarios” by David Holmgren

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ISBN 978 1 900322 50 8. “Future Scenarios – How communities can adapt to peak oil and climate change” by David Holmgren was published by Green Books in 2009. Although only three or four years old this book already looks dated somehow. It is a contemporary of Rob Hopkins’ original “Transition Handbook” and Shaun Chamberlin’s “Transition Timeline“. There was a brief flurry if such publications a few years back – but, no more. Their apparent visions of imminent energy collapse proved empty. What we got instead was financial collapse. Still, there is nothing obsolete in this publishing genre. It took as a while to catch up with this publication. So, let’s take a brief walk down memory lane to remember how it all began… Continue reading →

“The End of Growth” by Richard Heinberg

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ISBN 978 1 905570 33 1. “The End of Growth – Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” was written by Richard Heinberg and published by Clairview Books in 2011. This is a “living book” and updates can be found at www.endofgrowth.com (although this just takes you to http://richardheinberg.com/!). For your money you get 322 pages including Acknowledgements, an Introduction of ten parts followed by 7 chapters broken down into 48 topic-based sections, Notes and Index. The inside cover bristles with “advance praise” (how does that work?) from the likes of Herman E Daly, Lester Brown, Bill McKibben, Caroline Lucas and James Gustav Speth. This is Heinberg’s sixth major outing in print. His seminal work “The Party’s Over” has been a springboard for countless thousands of people who previously didn’t comprehend what Peak OIl meant for them. Continue reading →

“Transition In Action” by Transition Town Totnes

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ISBN 978-1-900322-85-0. “Transition In Action – Totnes and District 2030 – An Energy Descent Action Plan” was published in 2010 by Transition Town Totnes. It was scripted and edited by Jacqui Hodgson with Rob Hopkins. It is a meaty piece of work in floppy-cover, A4-sized paper, with 310 pages in glorious colour. The rear cover bristles with praise from the likes of Jonathan Porritt and Richard Heinberg. In content you get acknowledgements, a dedication, introduction, a “How to use” guide, four major sections consisting of sixty-two separate chapters, as well as appendices, references, glossary and credits. It is the most comprehensive EDAP you may ever see. Continue reading →

Richard Heinberg “Blackout”

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ISBN 978 1 905570 20 1. “Blackout – Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis” by Richard Heinberg was published by Clairview Books in 2009. For your money you get 200 page including Acknowledgements, Introduction, eight chapters, Notes, Bibliography and Index. What can we say about a book by Richard Heinberg? Next to Colin Campbell he practically founded and defined the modern concern about Peak Oil and how it will effect our civilisation. This is his fifth major book on the topic and (at the time of writing September 2011) he had already published his sixth “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”. It seems hard to catch up. Continue reading →