The Big Picture Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Charles A. Hall, Economy Uses science as the basis of economics – should be the Kent Klitgaard Econ 101 textbook Walter Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations Youngquist & Individuals Garrett Hardin Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos David Pimentel Food, Energy, and Society John Perlin A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Clive Ponting Collapse of Great Civilizations Peter Corning Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind Ward & Brownllee Rare Earth Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe Laurie Garrett Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health Science & Critical thinking How we know what we know Merchants of Doubt. How a handful of scientists obscured the truth Naome Oreskes on Issues from Tobacco smoke to Global Warming Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything James Lawrence Powell The Inquisition of Climate Science Trick or Treatment. The undeniable facts about alternative Simon Singh medicine.

Skeptic Magazine Critical thinking, philosophy of science, pseudoscience critiques, etc Natalie Angier The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary & Alternative R. Barker Bausell Medicine Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Ray Moynihan Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients Steve Salerno Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless Robert Davis The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health Dietrich Dorner The Logic of Failure The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking. How to Nicholas Capaldi Win an Argument, Defend a Case, …. Robert Cialdini Influence: The Art of Persuasion Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Why People Believe Weird Things. Pseudoscience, superstition and Michael Shermer other confusions The Science of Good & Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Michael Shermer Share, & Follow the Golden Rule Extinction How we could drive ourselves and up to 95% of life on earth extinct Planetary Boundaries. Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Johan Rockström Humanity www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/ The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self- Peter Ward Destructive? Mark Lynas Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Peter Ward Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future Richard E. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Leakey Humankind Michael J. Mills Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear et al conflict. Apr 8, 2008 PNAS vol. 105#14 Peter Ward The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps

Peter Ward, et. al. Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb Dec 16, 2004 Baltimore Sun John Atcheson (potential for runaway greenhouse?) The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of James Lovelock Humanity Genetics of Original Sin. The Impact of Natural Selection on the Christian de Duve Future of Humanity. Poisoned Earth -- Land, Air, and Water Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, Theo Colborn and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story John McCormick Acid Earth: The Global Threat of Acid Pollution When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Jonathan Watts Or Destroy It Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Judith Shapiro Revolutionary China Earth under assault: depletion of resources essential to our survival David Montgomery Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations John Opie Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land Bruce Franklin The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America Lament For An Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A Michael Harris True Story Richard Ellis The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping & the Fate of America's Fresh Robert Glennon Waters N. Middleton World Atlas of Desertification What is our Carrying capacity? Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Vaclav Smil Transformation of World Food Production Gever, Kauffman, et al : The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades D. & M. Fisher The Nitrogen Bomb. April 2001. Discover magazine William Catton Overshoot Mathis Wackernagel Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth History of Human Ecology The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands Tim Flannery and People Michael Williams Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Tim Flannery Its Peoples Our violent propensities: Can we avoid WW III as energy declines and times get harder? Steven A. LeBlanc Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage Lutz Kleveman The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict Chalmers The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Johnson Republic Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Robert Baer Crude : Militant , Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia Peter Turchin War and Peace and War. The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. David Berreby Us and Them. Understanding Your Tribal Mind. Azar Gat War in Human Civilization.

Lawrence Keeley War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage Becoming Evil. How ordinary people commit genocide and mass James Waller killing We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Philip Gourevitch Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Jack Weatherford Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World Daniel Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust Wrangham & Peterson Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Michael Ghiglieri The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence Richard Rhodes Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist Giles MacDonogh After the Reich. The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. Oil, Natural Gas, & Coal: why they're so difficult to replace, scale, uses, history, etc 1) Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak 2) Hubbert's Peak: Kenneth Deffeyes The Impending World Oil Shortage

Richard Heinberg Blackout. Coal, Climate and the Last Heinberg & D. The End of cheap coal...reserves will run out faster than many believe. Fridley 18 Nov 2010, Vol 460, Nature 2010 pp 367-69 T.Patzek & G. A global coal production forecast with multi-Hubbert cycle Croft analysis Energy 35 (2010) 3109-3122 Matthew : the coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Simmons Economy NY Acad of Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci Sciences 1219 (2011) pp 73-98 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power [Pulitzer Daniel Yergin Prize winner] The most likely short-term "solutions" Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, Robert L. Hirsch & Risk Management Howard Bucknell III Energy and the National Defense. Department of Energy Standby Gasoline Rationing Plan Why Alternative Energy can't replace fossil fuels (also see www.theoildrum.com, energybulletin.net, postcarbon.org) Ted Trainer Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society Howard Hayden The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World Martin Hoffert, et Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy al for a Greenhouse Planet 1 Nov 2002 Science U.S.Dept of Vehicle Technologies Program. Energy Storage Research and Energy Development. Annual Progress report 2008 T.Patzek & G. Potential for Coal-to-Liquids Conversion in the . Croft Natural Resources Research Vol 18#3 Sep 2009 Sheila Newman (ed) The Final Energy Crisis Jacqueline Langwith, ed. Opposing Viewpoints: Renewable Energy, vol. 2 Other sources of energy cannot deliver sufficient surpluses to replace the potent portable energy we know as gasoline and diesel. It is not generally understood that poorer quality energy sources can be critically dependent upon oil for their extraction, processing and distribution. In other words, oil is the precursor for other sources of energy; gas, coal, nuclear, solar, hydro, because these require oil fuel to create and maintain infrastructure. It also gives them the illusion of being Feral Metallurgist "profitable". Energy slave unit = avg output of a man doing 150,000 foot-pounds of work per day 250 days per year. In low-energy societies, nonhuman energy slaves are horses, oxen, windmills, riverboats. Now, the average American has more than 8,000 Buckminster energy-slaves at his or her disposal, and these slaves can work under extreme Fuller conditions: no sleep, 5,000° F, at 400,000 pounds per square inch pressure, etc” Agriculture, transportation, the major feedstock for over half a million products, heating, cooling, etc. Fossil fuels allow 6 billion extra people to exist who otherwise wouldn't be here. R Udall, S The Illusive Bonanza: in Colorado “Pulling the Sword Andrews from the Stone” Lights Out. The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and Jason Makansi What It Means to You From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means Richard Munson for the Future of Electricity Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Joseph J. Romm Climate U.Bossel & B.Eliasson Energy and the Hydrogen Economy

Alice Friedemann The Hydrogen Economy: Energy and Economic Black Hole Peak Soil: Why Biofuels are Not Sustainable and a Threat to Alice Friedemann America’s National Security energybulletin.net D. Pimentel, T. Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Patzek Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower

E.ON Netz Corp. E.ON Netz Wind Report 2005 Wind Action Wind power articles and realities Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear H Hirsch, et al Technology in the 21st Century Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Robert Alvarez Storage Institute for Policy Studies May 2011 It’s time to give up on breeder reactors. Bulletin of the Atomic T. Cochran et al Scientists. May / June 2010 Michael Dittmar The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction (4 parts) http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5631 Richard Wolfson Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology To catch a wave 8 Nov 2007 | Nature 450, 156- Ewen Callaway 159 Infrastructure Our infrastructure was built when oil had EROEI of 40-100. Now it's falling apart. Hydrocarbons and the Evolution of Human Culture 20 Nov 2003 Charles Hall et al. Nature 426, pp. 318–22 Brian Hayes Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape Kate Ascher The Works: Anatomy of a City American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card for America’s ASCE Infrastructure. 2009 Env Protection The Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Agency Analysis. 2002. Office of Water The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Rose George Why It Matters Politics Why it's so hard to find a way out of our situation: the Human Political Animal Joel Bakan The Corporation The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Stanton Glantz Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Marion Nestle Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health Jack Doyle Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human James C. Scott Condition Have Failed. Topsoil David W. Wolfe Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean R. Ratta, R. Lal Soil Quality and Soil Erosion

N. Brady, R. Weil The Nature and Properties of Soils Water California Rivers & Streams. The Conflict between Fluvial Process Jeffrey F. Mount & Land Use Sandra Postel Pillar of Sand, Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? Resource Allocation The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and David Landes Some So Poor Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [Pulitzer Jared Diamond Prize winner] Population Roy Beck & Leon The Environmental Movement’s Retreat From Advocating U.S. Kolankiewicz Population Stabilization (1970-1998). The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia The Immigration Garrett Hardin Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, Virginia Abernethy Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future Bill McKibben A Special Moment in History May 1998 Atlantic Monthly www.mnforsustain.org/table_of_contents.htm especially those by All links at: William Catton about Malthus Thomas Homer- Dixon Environment, Scarcity, and Violence Climate Change a.k.a. Global Warming

Spencer R. Weart The Discovery of Global Warming Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For John D. Cox Our Future Brian Fagan The Little Ice Age: How climate made history 1300 - 1850 Brian Fagan The Long Summer. How Climate Changed Civilization The National Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises Academy http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/ Societies in Decline What happens after financial and/or energy collapses -- how do people cope? What careers will be best in an outsourced, resourced-depleted world? Russia: Reinventing Collapse. The Soviet Example and American Dmitry Orlov Prospects Peter Godwin Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun oxfamamerica.org Cuba: Going against the grain North Korea Stephen Wegren Russia’s Food Policies and Globalization The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the Timothy Egan Dust Bowl Collapse fossil fuels grow food and unlock all other resources and maintain the infrastructure we survive on. Energy shortages + death by a thousand cuts etc will cause collapse Robert Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of Constanza, et al People on Earth Nothing is So Powerful As an Exponential Whose Time Has Come http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php?display_article=vn Donella Meadows 280exponentialed Arithmetic, Population, and Energy Albert Bartlett http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/symposium/bartlett/bartlett.html Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Health Care Take care of yourself, health care will decline as society grows poorer Merrill Goozner The $800 Million Pill. The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs Marion Nestle 1) Safe Food 2) What to Eat The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American David Kessler Appetite Evolutionary Psychology & Biology The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Matt Ridley Cooperation Judith Harris No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Judith Harris Do The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Geoffrey Miller Human Nature David Barash Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People Sarah Hrdy Mother Nature. A history of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection What it's like to be a soldier Guy Sajer The Forgotten Soldier David Finkel The Good Soldiers Peter Goldman Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us Science Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time Laurie Garrett The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance BioInvasion & BioDiversity Michael Novacek, et al The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts Evolution The 10,000 Year Explosion. How Civilization Accelerated Human Gregory Cochran Evolution Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species & The Descent of Man The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time Jonathan Weiner [Pulitzer Prize winner] Claude Combes The Art of Being a Parasite Nina Jablonski Skin, A Natural History Parasite Rex. Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Carl Zimmer Creatures Putting it All Together Edward O. Wilson Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge Industrial Agriculture Peter Golob Crop Post-Harvest Handbook Volume 1: Principles and Practice Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal The Road to Hell The ravaging effects of foreign aid and Michael Maren international charity The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Steven Stoll Countryside in California Beasts of the Field. A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, Richard Street 1769-1913. Richard Walker The Conquest of Bread. 150 years of Agribusiness in California. Julie Guthman Agrarian dreams. The paradox of organic farming in California Kimbrell (editor) Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: A report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the Failure of America's Land Grant College Jim Hightower Complex Carolyn Johnsen Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska The Future of Farming How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can John Jeavons Imagine Jim Bender Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming B. C. Mollison : A Designers' Manual The Joys and Hardships of Family Farms Little Heathens. Hard times & high spirits on an Iowa Farm during Mildred Kalish the great depression. Barbara A Pioneer Sampler : The daily life of a pioneer family in 1840 Greenwood (illustrated, good for tweens) M. R. Montgomery A Cow's Life The Surprising History of Cattle David Masumoto Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons on my Family Farm Gene Logsdon The Contrary Farmer Natural History Susan McCarthy Becoming a Tiger: How baby animals learn to live in the wild Carl Safina Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Robert Sapolsky Among the Baboons Barry Lopez Of Wolves and Men Holldobler & Wilson Journey to the Ants Claude Combes The Art of Being a Parasite James Gould Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence Rolling Back the Clock Who knows how far back civilization will go? Steven Vogel Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle Joanna Stratton Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Ann Greene Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own. A New History of the Richard White American West. Undaunted Courage. Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Stephen Ambrose Opening of the American West Robert Massie Peter the Great: His Life and World

Barbara Tuchman Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century Jean Gimpel Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages George Huppert After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe How Rich Nations Steal From Poor Nations Susan George Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire Illicit. How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Moises Naim Global Economy (comment: the poor from the rich) Fire Stephen J. Pyne Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire Stephen J. Pyne Burning Bush, A Fire History of Australia Murry Taylor Jumping Fire. A Smoke Jumper's memoir of fighting wildfire Inventing a New Society What worked, what failed, and why? Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the Eleanor Agnew 1970s and Why They Came Back Mark Holloway Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880 Robert Hine California's Utopian Colonies Donald E. Pitzer America's Communal Utopias Helena Norberg- Hodge Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh What to do Howard T. Odum The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies Ted Trainer The Alternative, Sustainable Society; the Simpler Way The Protocol : A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, And Economic Collapse

Richard Heinberg Powerdown : Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

Richard Heinberg The Party's Over: Oil, war, and the Fate of Industrial Societies James H : Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Kunstler Twenty-First Century Bartlett heads the caucus in the House of representatives 3 part series, 1st part: Gene Gerue How to find your ideal country home. A comprehensive guide. Miscellaneous Nick Reding Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Trashing the Planet Thomas Hayden Trashing the Oceans W.Rathje & Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our garbage tells us C.Murphy about ourselves WorldWatch Institute State of the World 2011 Higher Education in America Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Murray Sperber Undergraduate Education Investment. You can't buy your way out of ecological collapse, but you might live longer if you prepare, which requires money Nicole Foss A Century of Challenges. http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide. How to Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Martin Weiss Times 1) Financial Reckoning Day 2) Empire of Debt The Rise of an William Bonner Epic Financial Crisis Stephen Leeb How oil controls the economy & your financial future Van K. Tharp Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom John R. Talbot The Coming Crash in the Housing Market David / Tom The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (or anything else that Gardner makes sense of 10K's and annual reports) Death by a thousand cuts. Converging Storms: Cheap energy has hidden how much we've overshot carrying capacity and provided the energy to rebuild after hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, storms, and other natural disasters.

Donella Meadows The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update Edward O. Wilson 1) The Future of Life 2) The Diversity of Life Ocean species depleted by fishing: Worldwide numbers down 90 Rick Weiss percent since the 1950s May 15, 2003 Washington.Post Chris Bright Life out of Bounds: BioInvasion in a Borderless World The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Laurie Garrett Balance Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry manipulates science, Dan Fagin bends the law, and endangers your health Jennifer Viegas 1,000 Times Too Many Humans? Tim Radford Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' Hopfenberg & Human population numbers as a function of food supply. 2001. Pimentel Environ Dev Sustain 3(1):1-15 Sierra Club First Anniversary of Superfund Bankruptcy 40% of world deaths due to environment factors Roger Segelken http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/10.15.98/env-death.html Trashing the Oceans An armada of plastic rides the waves, & sea Thomas Hayden creatures are suffering November 4 G. Luft & A. Korin Terrorism Goes to Sea Nov/Dec 2004 Foreign Affairs Globalization: will continue for quite a while into navigable ports. Containerized shipping made globalization possible, it will end when these behemoths rust apart. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and Marc Levinson the World Economy Bigger Preservation of Knowledge: I hope you put some of these books on your shelves so our descendants know what really happened. Future political and religious leaders will try to profit and maintain power with their own versions of events. Hungry, crazed, non-educated people will believe it was caused by demons, sin, God, blacks, Jews, Mormons, liberals, government, etc.

Alice Friedemann Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge energybulletin.net