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Climate Change & Peak Oil
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CLIMATE CHANGE & PEAK OIL
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THE ATLAS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Mapping The Worlds Greatest Challenge
Kirstin Dow & Thomas E Downing
Covers a wide range of topics, with more than 50 full-colour maps and graphics. An excellent book. For the long term climate change reader, it synthesises things you already knew in a very clear and stylish way. For the novice, it takes what would otherwise be hard to digest statistics and information, and makes it clear and understandable. 112pp.
AOCC £12.99 add to cart
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BEFORE THE WELLS RUN DRY
Ireland’s Transition To Renewable Energy
Ed. Richard Douthwaite
The work of a wide cross-section of experts is compiled here to give an excellent overview of the issues surrounding the energy revolution, with a particular focus on Ireland’s energy needs. Ideal for anyone with a serious interest in renewable energy, this is a ground breaking book. 334pp
BWR £9.95 add to cart
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CARBON FREE HOME
36 Remodelling Projects To Help Kick The Fossil-fuel Habit
Stephen & Rebekah Hren
Shows first how to reduce energy consumption, then to retrofit existing homes to obtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and electricity from renewable sources. 320pp
CFH £27.50 add to cart
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EASY ECO AUDITING
How To Make Your Home & Workplace Planet Friendly
Donnachadh McCarthy
Enables you to carry out an eco-audit of your home and your workplace with a step-by-step approach that shows you how to make practical and effective changes. The author is an expert in the field and this book is well written in a user friendly and sometimes even amusing style. 256pp
EEA £7.99 add to cart
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ENERGY BEYOND OIL
Paul Mobbs
Mobbs’ easy to read book examines the issue of energy use and supply; how much energy we consume today; how long our current reserves of energy might last; and what this will mean for the amount of energy our society will have in the future. It looks at how much energy different sources (fossil, nuclear, renewables) might contribute, and how society will have to change when we rely upon alternative sources of energy. 204pp
EBO £15.99 add to cart
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FUTURE SCENARIOS
David Holgrem
While awareness of peak oil, or at least the energy crisis, is increasing, understanding of how these two problems might interact to generate quite different futures is still at an early state. David Holgrem presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between climate change and peak oil using a scenario planning model. In the process it introduces permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the last 30 years to creatively respond to futures that involve progressively less and less available energy. 126pp
FSH £9.95 add to cart
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HALF GONE
Oil, Gas, Hot Air & the Global Energy Crisis
Jeremy Leggett
The single global marketplace we all inhabit is built on the notion of a solid, growing supply of cheap oil and gas for decades to come. But that bedrock is about to crack and crumble. And the oil companies know it. As geologists, civil servants and industry insiders in this hard hitting book tell us, the day the wells start to run dry is a lot closer than most people think. 320pp
HGO £12.99 add to cart
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HOW TO LIVE A LOW-CARBON LIFE
The Individuals Guide To Stopping Climate Change
Chris Goodall
Shows how to cut carbon emissions and why it is fun, rewarding and can save money. It includes a reference guide to calculate your CO2 emissions and reduce them to a sustainable three tonnes a year. It covers home heating, water heating and cooking, lighting, household appliances, car travel, public transport, air travel and food. 319pp
HLL £14.99 add to cart
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THE LONG EMERGENCY
Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty First Century
James Howard Kunstler
The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the age of oil, that fuelled this expansion, is coming rapidly to an end. This is about to change radically life as we know it, and much sooner than we think. The distinguished commentator and analyst James Howard Kunstler explains what to expect after we pass the tipping point of peak oil production. 288pp
LES £12.99 add to cart
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THE NO NONSENSE GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Dinyar Dogrej
An accessible little guide that sifts scientific theory from scientific fact in order to present the true impact of climate change on health, farming and wildlife. It also provides an analysis of the political context and looks at potential solutions to this global crisis. 142pp
NGC £7.00 add to cart
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PEAK EVERYTHING
Dependency Waking Up To The Century Of Decline In Earth’s Resources
Richard Heinberg
Heinberg addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will need to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming, energy and industrial design, Peak Everything indicates how we might make the transition from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, while preserving the best of our collective achievements. 224pp
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POST PETROLEUM SURVIVAL GUIDE & COOKBOOK
Albert Bates
Written by a permaculturist and ecovillager, this is practical and optimistic guide to help you and your family and community prepare for life after oil. Topics include water and waste disposal, energy and transportation, equipment and tools, food, storage and first aid. There are also lots of playful recipes throughout the book – featuring wholefoods, local produce, preservation and growing – so you can have your catastrophe and eat it too. 224pp
PPSG £11.50 add to cart
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POWERDOWN
Options & Actions For A Post Carbon World
Richard Heinberg
Oil is running out and, if the Western world continues with its current policies, the next decades will likely be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. There are alternatives. A 'Powerdown' strategy, for example, would aim to reduce per-capita resource usage, develop alternative energy sources, distribute resources more equitably, and reduce the human population over time. 244p
POA £11.99 add to cart
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SIX DEGREES
Our Future On A Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas
A cool look at the evidence that charts whether we hit a 2, 4 or 6 degree rise in global temperatures and the effects those rises will have. This is an ‘editor’s choice, indispensable reading’ text that will give you the larger picture and compel you to act NOW! Read it. 358pp
SDF £8.99 add to cart
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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Without The Hot Air
David J C MacKay
If ever there was a book, which cut through mountains of misinformation, vague claims, fuzzy thinking and special pleading, this is it. The simple, accessible facts it contains are the essential raw material for any decision on energy, from the domestic to the world level. 372pp
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TRANSITION
LOCAL FOOD
How To Make It Happen In Your Community
Tamzin Pinkerton
& Rob Hopkins
Local Food is an inspirational and practical guide for creating local food initiatives – showing how we can restore and establish community networks to generate healthy, locally produced food. This book explores a huge range of initiatives for rebuilding a diverse, resilient local food network – including community gardens and food cooperatives. Development of activity at community level is urgently needed to retain food security, and this book is the ideal place to start!
LFH £12.95
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LOCAL MONEY
How To Make It Happen In Your Community
Peter North
This is an inspiring guide that helps the reader to understand what money is and how we can create money that remains in the community – building loyalty between consumers and local traders rather than losing wealth to the corporate chain stores. It explains how alternative currencies can work with local banks and credit unions to strengthen the local economy. 192pp
LMH £14.95
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THE TRANSITION HANDBOOK
From Oil Dependency To Local Resillience
Rob Hopkins
Here is the manual that describes how to activate your community to plan for peak oil and power-down. The first section details the logic of peak oil and climate change and why ‘small is inevitable’; then comes the positive vision of relocalising and the psychology of change; the last section introduces the transition concept and how to start one yourself. This book is visionary, practical and it is also fun! Rob Hopkins and the Transition Movement give us the tools for inventing a future that has the potential to be an ecological, economic and cultural renaissance. 240pp
THF £12.95
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TRANSITION IN ACTION
Totnes and District 2030 - An Energy Descent Action Plan
Transition Town Totnes
The UK’s first comprehensive Energy Descent Action Plan designed for and by a local community. It approaches the changes necessitated by climate change, peak oil and the UK’s debt crisis not as a crisis, but as an opportunity for entrepreneurship, creativity, community, enhanced resilience and a greater quality of life. 300pp
TIA £19.99
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THE TRANSITION TIMELINE
Shaun Chamberlin
Don’t just read this book - use it to change your world. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world, ranging from denial, in which we reap the consequences of failing to acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the Transition Vision, in which we shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lower energy world. The practical, realistic details of this are examined in depth, covering key areas such as food, energy, demographics, transport and healthcare, and they provide a sense of context for communities working towards a thriving future. The book also provides a detailed and accessible update on climate change and peak oil and the interactions between them, including their impacts in the UK, present and future. 192pp
TTTF £12.95
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