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Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash

13 reviews
Aric McBay

The Lyons Press, 2006

solar panels are for sissies
This book is just under 100 pages, about a fifth of which is Introduction. The author states he is hoping for a rapid collapse of industrial civilization, via deliberate attacks by a group of 'committed individuals' if necessary. He goes on to give advice on basic long term survival without electricity or plumbing, most of it intended for a rural setting. Emphasis on BASIC. He covers a handful ...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ...

210 reviews

Grove Press, 2006

The Long Emergency
An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances!

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 ...

161 reviews
James Wesley Rawles

Xlibris Corporation, 2006

Must Read
You can read this book over and over. First for the story and then again and again for ideas.

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 ...

World Made by Hand: A Novel

82 reviews
James Howard Kunstler

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

world made by hand
Easy to read discription on how things in life could revert to better times even without modern convienences.

When All Hell Breaks Loose

27 reviews
Cody Lundin

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007

Good Book for all levels of preparation
Mr. Lundin has shared his considerable knowledge on a number of important issues relating to staying alive and well when "All Hell breaks loose." the importance of redundant systems for water and fire are mentioned. the disposal of dead bodies is mentioned; a topic that we all hope we never have to do, but in such situations as Katrina, we could be called to do that to prevent the spread of ...

The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times

13 reviews
Albert Bates

New Society Publishers, 2006

Excellent intro level book, full of useful advice
This book is great intro to all the issues relating to peak oil and our other looming crisis; water, food, transportation, economics, etc., with hints, tips, sidebars, recipes, quotes, so it's not really heavy going. In a fairly non-apocalyptic way, it covers all sorts of stuff, for example: bug out bags, various alternative fuels, lists of things to stockpile, ecovillages and community, ...

Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture

11 reviews
Dale Allen Pfeiffer

New Society Publishers, 2006

We Need to Bring Back the Victory Garden
I wish I had read this book last year, I would already have prepared a vegetable garden to plant this spring. I know about Peak Oil, etc. but this book really got my attention. It provides a clear explanation of how dependent our food supply is on fossil fuels. Higher and higher food prices are in store for us, soon. And that's before we start to see food shortages. The agricultural land in the ...

The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man (UK Paperback) Strahan

6 reviews
David Strahan

John Murray, 2007

An absolute must for the intelligent reader
I did this review for a New Zealand newspaper, but it applies worldwide. We all know it is coming, don't we? Petrol prices escalating, Maui fields producing less and less, Government trying to fire up a coal-fired power plant at Marsden Point to substitute for increasingly expensive oil, Australia going to nuclear-based power generation - obvious, isn't it? This exceptionally informative book ...

Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change

2 reviews
Pat Murphy

New Society Publishers, 2008

Best Overall Guide to Peak Oil yet
this book just came out and there are no customer reviews yet, so i thought i'd add more info for potential purchasers. my field is peak oil and this was the 69th book i've read on the subject; i believe it to be the best book yet written on peak oil and "where do we go from here". as americans, what are our real options now (that gasoline is more than $22 per gallon if you remove u.s. subsidies ...

Peak Oil and How to Use Rainwater for Survival
Steven Woeste

Amazon, 2006

I wrote this article to show people how to easily and cheaply collect large quantities of rainwater for household use during water rationing or shortages. It is also useful for reducing your water bill even when water from the water company is readily available. With sufficient effort, small households could become nearly sulf-sufficient for water.

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