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The post carbon reader: managing the 21st century's sustainability crises
2010, Watershed Media, Post Carbon Institute, Distributed by the University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Foreword / Asher Miller
Preface / Daniel Lerch
Beyond the limits to growth / Richard Heinberg
What is sustainability? / Richard Heinberg
Thinking "resilience" / William E. Rees
A new world / Bill McKibben
The international response to climate change / Richard Douthwaite
The ecological deficit : creating a new political framework / David Orr
Water : adapting to a new normal / Sandra Postel
Peak nature? / Stephanie Mills
Getting fossil fuels off the plate / Michael Bomford
Takling the oldest environmental problem : agriculture and its impact on soil / Wes Jackson
Growing community food systems / Erika Allen
Population : the multiplier of everything else / William N. Ryerson
Dangerously addictive : why we are biologically ill-suited to the riches of modern America / Peter C. Whybrow
Remapping relationships : humans in nature / Gloria Flora
The human nature of unsustainability / William E. Rees
Making sense of peak oil and energy uncertainty / Daniel Lerch
Hydrocarbons in North America / J. David Hughes
Nine challenges of alternative energy / David Fridley
Peak oil and the great recession / Tom Whipple
Ecological economics / Joshua Farley
Money and energy / Richard Douthwaite
The competitiveness of local living economies / Michael H. Shuman
The death of sprawl : designing urban resilience for the twenty-first-century resource and climate crises / Warren Karlenzig
Smart decline in post-carbon cities : the Buffalo Commons meets Buffalo, New York / Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper
Toward zero-carbon buildings / Hillary Brown
Local government in a time of peak oil and climate change / John Kaufmann
Transportation in the post-carbon world / Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl
Climate change, peak oil, and the end of waste / Bill Sheehan and Helen Spiegelman
Human health and well-being in an era of energy scarcity and climate change / Cindy L. Parker and Brian S. Schwartz
Smart by nature : schooling for sustainability / Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow
Community colleges : a vital resource for education in the post-carbon era / Nancy Lee Wood
Personal preparation / Chris Martenson
What can communities do? / Rob Hopkins
What now? : the path forward begins with one step / Asher Miller.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Healdsburg, Calif, Santa Rosa, Calif, Berkeley, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.927
Library of Congress
HC79.E5 P67 2010, HC79.E5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 523 p. :
Number of pages
523

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24884813M
Internet Archive
postcarbonreader0000unse
ISBN 10
0970950063
ISBN 13
9780970950062
LCCN
2010931734
OCLC/WorldCat
681376694

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