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Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

Richard Heinberg - Political Science - 2015 - 219 pages
Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our ...
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Richard Heinberg - Political Science - 2010 - 241 pages
Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty.
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

Richard Heinberg - Business & Economics - 2011 - 359 pages
Citing unchanged recession conditions despite the optimistic projections of leading economists, a cautionary report argues that civilization has reached a fundamental turning ...
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

Richard Heinberg - History - 2004 - 234 pages
This stark look at prospects for a truly sustainable culture speaks frankly about how it is time to "Powerdown," or to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries ...
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Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through ...

Richard Heinberg - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 218 pages
This book is an accessible, engaging tool to help people enrich their lives through the observance of ancient, astronomically determined Earth festivals. It assists us to ...
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Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

Richard Heinberg - Technology & Engineering - 2009 - 209 pages
Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost ...
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

Richard Heinberg - Technology & Engineering - 2005 - 322 pages
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to ...
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A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal ...

Richard Heinberg - Civilization, Modern - 1996 - 264 pages
Is modern civilization fundamentally flawed? Is society itself a world threatening catastrophe?
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