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WEB SITES
The following are web sites recommended by our group. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all web sites pertaining to peak oil, energy news, self-sufficiency,
or permaculture/gardening. For further suggestions, explore the link lists on these sites.
Peak Oil
Energy News
Self-sufficiency & Community
Permaculture/Gardening
WEBLOGS
There are quite a few excellent peak oil and homesteading weblogs out there. New to blogs? Frequently updated and written in a personal tone, a blog is an online diary or journal where the writer or "blogger" will write his/her observations and provide links to useful websites. Read more about blogs here.
- Alternative Energy Blog: news, views and strong opinions on alternate energy resources
- CommonSenseDesk: Energy: energy headlines with commentary
- deconsumption: the party's over; turn out the lights
- Emerald City Commentary: commenting on peak oil and climate change
- The Energy Blog: a place where all energy topics are presented
- Flying Talking Donkey: peak oil news portal
- The Gristmill: a blogful of leafy green commentary
- Jim Kunstler's Clusterf**k Nation: the author of The Long Emergency spouts off
- Land of Black Gold: reflections on oil, peak oil theory, energy in general, and the investment implications
- Live Journal Peak Oil community: group blog on peak oil
- Long Emergency: peak oil news and discussion
- Mobjectivist: facts on the inevitable world-wide energy transition
- The Oil Drum: myriad ideas related to Hubbert's Peak/Peak Oil, sustainable development and growth, etc.
- Oilcast: energy news audio on demand
- Path to Freedom Journal: online journal of an urban permaculture, homestead model
- Peak Oil Anarchy: peak oil could herald a golden age of anarchy.
- Peak Oil News: "If we don't change our course, we'll end up where we're headed."
- Peak Oil Optimist: knowing we're running out of fossil fuels; believing we can kick the habit
- Peak Oil Premonitions: to re-evaluate and change the role one plays in our ecosystem of finite resources
- Radical Noesis: facing two challenges - the end of oil as an accessible resource and global warming
- Renewable Energy Law Blog: news and commentary on the evolving law, science, and policy of renewable energy development
- Resource Insights: independent comment on environmental and natural resource news
- Sustainable Journey: a family sharing the details of their "disconnecting" from suburbanized culture
- Sustainablog: environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics
- Tidepool: news for salmon nation
- Treehugger: the future is green; find it here
- UNplanning Journal: news and views on the rise and fall of the built environment in light of the coming energy crisis
- The Watt: daily energy news and discussion
- WorldChanging: a better world is possible
- World Without Oil: oil and energy issues
ONLINE ARTICLES
There are literally thousands of articles online about peak oil and related subjects. The following are just a few standouts. For more, check this excellent archive of online oil-related articles.
- Peak Oil: Is it really a wolf in sheep's clothing? (Portland Alliance)
- "My Name Is Randy, And I'm Addicted To Oil" (Willamette Week, Portland)
- What peak oil means to every American (Congressman Tom Udall in the AZ Daily Sun)
- What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis (The Independent)
- Fossil-Fueled Worries (Newsweek)
- Portlanders meet to learn, plan and prepare for peak oil (Portland Alliance)
- What's peak oil? It's time to learn (Portland Tribune)
- Doubts Raised on Saudi Vow for More Oil (New York Times)
- The real story behind ExxonMobil's 10 billion dollar profit (Daily Kos)
- How to Kick the Oil Habit (TIME magazine)
- Debate brews: Has oil production peaked? (USA Today)
- Peak Oil - a community matter (SE Examiner, Portland)
- Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil (Richard Heinberg)
- You Bet Your Life (Mike Ruppert)
- The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett's Conference (Falls Church News-Press)
- Oil and the Global Economy: Counting the Cost (The Economist)
- 'Peak oil' is coming, but country is ill-prepared (Houston Chronicle)
- The Breaking Point (New York Times)
- After the Oil Runs Out (The Oregonian)
- An Introduction to Peak Oil (The Sharpener)
- How the small town of Willits (CA) plans to beat the coming energy crisis (MetroActive)
- The Twilight Era of Petroleum (Mother Jones)
- The end of oil is closer than you think (UK Guardian)
- The Long Emergency (Kunstler in Rolling Stone)
- How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse (Richard Heinberg)
- Powering the Future: Where on Earth can our energy-hungry society turn to replace oil, coal, and natural gas? (National Geographic)
- Pump Dreams: Is energy independence an impossible goal? (New Yorker)
- The Oil We Eat (Harper's)
- The Cuba Diet (Harper's)
- Urban vs. Rural Sustainability (Toby Hemenway)
- The Most Important Thing You Don't Know About Peak Oil (deconsumption)
- Over a Barrel (Mother Jones)
- Peak Oil and Environmental Injustice (Radical Noesis)
- The Oil Uproar That Isn't (New York Times)
- Alternative energy slow to take hold (MSNBC)
- Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil (Common Ground)
- Here comes the nutcracker: Peak Oil in a nutshell (Jan Lundberg)
- Michael Ruppert on the messy decline of the oil age (Eugene Weekly)
- Can Democracy Survive Without Fossil Fuels? (Resource Insights)
- Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush (UK Guardian)
LISTSERVS
Email groups can be a great way to get in touch with others and discuss the issues.
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