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Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age

2 reviews
Richard Heinberg

Quest Books, 2007

Every human culture has a myth of the "fall"
Did you really think Adam and Eve were unique or unprecedented? Every human culture has a myth of the "fall" from an original golden-age of peace and prosperity to death and disease, including eskimos, aborigines and Native Americans. The author examines "fall" myths from a variety of angles, presenting all the major theories as to what they might mean. "Memories and Visions of Paradise" ...

Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony

2 reviews
Richard Heinberg

Quest Books, 1993

Holidays for World Renewal
A couple of years ago, I put out a winter holiday greeting on the Web. Its purpose: to explore the ancient origins of the winter holiday season and its deep cross-cultural roots, and to help me give greater meaning to my own celebration at this time of the year. Little did I know when I began candlegrove.com that someone had already "written the book" on this subject. Richard Heinberg has ...

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Rob Hopkins

Green Books, 2008

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more ...

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

89 reviews
Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2005

Cassandra or not, it doesn't matter
Everyone with a spreadsheet program and Internet access can make his own predictions. Just take the publications of various energy organizations like BP, Shell, Energy agencies regarding available reserves and resources of oil, oil sand, oil shale, gas, coal, uranium and convert them into usable kWh. Then take the worldwide consumption of kWh, as well as consumption per head, and add ...

Resonance
Richard Heinberg

Emanation Press, 1977

The New Age Science of Matter, Mind and Spirit 124 pages

The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse

8 reviews
Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2006

Bottom Line Deadly Serious
All of the non-fiction reading that I have done supports this author's presenation of both the consequences of doing nothing, and practical bottom line: a 3% reduction per year for the next ten to twenty years, of gross consumption (per capita is meaningless when the number of people are growing rapidly) of oil is the only way to transition gracefully. Amazon visiters need to be aware that the ...

Memories and Visions of Paradise

1 review
Richard Heinberg

Emissaries, 1985

Memories and Visions of Paradise
I was very disappointed in this book. I had read a book with the same title and by the same author, but it was almost 300 pages long. This book had very little of the information that the one I had read had. I don't know how a book with the same title and by the same author could be so different!

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)

16 reviews
Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2007

Thinking Straight in a Media of Hearsay and Misinformation
Heinberg explains how fossil fuels, primarily oil, permeate every aspect of our modern culture - from agriculture to cities and a long-term perspective. In the age of almost 7 billion people demanding more and more of limited resources, the media, politicians and governments tend to only report short-term perspectives and ignore Heinberg's Five Axioms of Sustainability to the extent that these ...

Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

45 reviews
Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2004

My eyes will never be the same.
From the article titled "Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force", in the Washington Post, "The White House went to great lengths to keep these meetings secret, and now oil executives may be lying to Congress about their role in the Cheney task force," Lautenberg said. You might find the answer for why we are in Iraq, if you were to read "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a ...

Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology

3 reviews
Richard Heinberg

Quest Books, 1999

Makes for compelling reading for modern times
Written by Richard Heinberg (journalist, essayist, lecturer, and publisher of "MuseLetter"), Cloning The Buddha: The Moral Impact Of Biotechnology is a serious and thoughtful ethical study of the divisive issues arising from modern biotechnology. Starting with the successful cloning of the sheep Dolly in 1997 and stretching through a wide spectrum of possibilities, such as cloning organs for ...

The Party\'s Over
Richard Heinberg

Arab Scientific Publishers, 2006

The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically, and even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times.

A New Covenant With Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture

2 reviews
Richard Heinberg

Quest Books, 1996

Broad-range discussion, totally grounded on fundamental questions.
So broad yet rightly detailed -- a rare combination in modern writing. The book cannot be simplified into one idea, but the big question seems to be, are our cultural choices inhuman and even worse? Clearly and sincerely written, so that anyone anywhere on the spectrum of opinion can appreciate the thoughts and motivations of the writer.

The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse
Richard Heinberg

New Society (2006), 2006

Dreamflesh: A Journal of Body, Psyche, Ecological Crisis & Archaeologies of Consciousness: v. 1
Amodali, Pablo Amaringo, ...

Dreamflesh, 2006

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth's Resources
Richard Heinberg

Clairview Books, 2007

Power Down
Richard Heinberg

Arab Scientific Publishers, 2006

If the U.S. continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the U.S, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a punishing game of "Last One Standing".

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