Suggested Reading Sheet Ideas for Where to Go Next... 9 Version 1, March 2007. Produced by the Free Range Energy Project 50p http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/ [email protected] (where sold)

The purpose of the Free Range Energy Beyond Oil Project is to raise awareness about the issue of Peak Energy. However, rather than re-invent the wheel we prefer to integrate our efforts with the body of work that already exists on these and related issues. For this reason we have produced this guide to the many other books that exist on the peak energy, climate change and other related issues in order to help people find the information/inspiration that they need.

In creating this list we are not suggesting that you read everything on it, and nor are we saying that every book on this list is good and useful addition to the public's knowledge of the peak energy issue. The purpose of this list is to give an outline of the range of books that are available. The list has been assembled from titles suggested by contributors to the Energy Beyond Oil Project (who between them have quite a few thousand source books to draw upon) and contains books that they feel able to recommend (be- cause they found them helpful, interesting, or shocking!). Most of these books are available from bookshops, although a number are now out of print and can only be found from second hand booksellers or junk shops. The on-line version of this guide contains links to where you can find these books. However, ideally you shouldn't buy the book – it's far cheaper and resource efficient to borrow it from a public library (many of the books, even those out of print, are avail- able via inter-library loan). If you wish to buy book then Amazon and other booksellers will stock most of the titles, es- pecially the American books. However we would recommend that you use: The Green Shopping Catalogue (http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/) – call 01730 823311 for a catalogue; CAT Mail Order (http://www.cat.org.uk/) – call 0845 3304592 or 01654 705959 for a catalogue.

Abbreviations used below: P/B, paperback; H/B, hardback; S/H, second hand/rare book seller (i.e., out of print)

Peak Energy and Economics The following books deal with the issues of peak energy and/or the economic and social problems inherent within our current pat- terns of energy use. As well as looking at , some also look at the issue of environmental limits more generally. Energy Beyond Oil Richard Douthwaite, 1999 (revised A book on peak oil, written for eco- Coming Saudi Oil Shock and Paul Mobbs, 2005 edition) nomists, on the implications that a the World Economy Matador, ISBN 978-1905237005, Green Books, ISBN 978- downturn in oil supply has for the , 2005 £15.99, P/B 1870098762, £12.95, P/B world economy. Wiley, ISBN 978-0471790181, Reputed to be the first major book An excellent, compelling review of £15.99, P/B Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and on peak oil in the UK, it outlines the problem of "growth", and the For those really into peak oil, Sim- the Global how the UK energy economy reasons why the pursuit of growth mon's book clearly outlines the , 2005 works, the problems that peak en- has driven us to the point of envir- problem – the Middle East does Portobello Books, ISBN 978- ergy will create, and the alternative onmental collapse. not have the oil that it claims, and 1846270055, £8.99, P/B options will have to adopt. without action by western govern- Before the Wells Run Dry: Ire- An interesting review of the inter- ments we never will know how Powerdown: Options and Ac- land's Transition to Renewable locking issues of energy depletion much they really have left. tions for a Post-Carbon World Energy and climate change, although the , 2004 Richard Douthwaite, 2003 solutions (mainly, more renew- Blood and Oil: How America's Clairview Books, ISBN 978- Green Books, ISBN 978- ables) are open to interpretation. Thirst for Petrol is Killing Us 1902636634, £10.95, P/B 1843510376, £9.95, P/B , 2005 : The Decline of In the follow-on book to The Party's One of the first studies of national Penguin Books, ISBN 978- the Petroleum Economy and Over, Heinberg looks specifically at as a means to 0141020037, £8.99, P/B the Rise of a New Energy Order how the only realistic options of ad- meet the problems of energy de- A rather depressing book that ex- Paul Roberts, 2004 apting to resource depletion is a pletion and climate change. amines the relationship between Bloomsbury, ISBN 978- progressive "powering down" of Americas need for energy and its Limits to Growth: The 30 Year 0747570813, £8.99, P/B the economy of the developed foreign policy – and how energy Update An examination of how energy de- world. depletion is driving them to ever Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers pletion will dissemble our modern greater extremes. The Party's Over: Oil, War and and Dennis Meadows, 2004 lifestyle, and the how possibilities the Fate of Industrial Societies Earthscan, ISBN 978-1844071449, for alternative energy sources will : surviving Richard Heinberg, 2003 £14.99, P/B still require significant change. the Converging Catastrophes of New Society Publishers, ISBN A MUST READ. Updating the Club the Twenty-First Century Out of Gas: The End of the Age 978-1905570003, £12.99, US of Rome's original report 30 years , 2005 of Oil book, P/B ago, the book outlines the multifa- Atlantic Books, ISBN 978- David Goodstein, 2005 Heinberg's seminal book on peak ceted limits to future growth – not 1843544531, £12.99, P/B W.W. Norton, ISBN 978- oil and what it means to the future just oil, but other resources too. Kunstler's exposition of the peak oil 0393326475, £8.00, US book, P/B of the American state. problem for the USA – not quite The Final Energy Crisis A book on the end of oil that fo- "end of days", but certainly a bleak The Growth Illu$ion: How Eco- Andrew McKillop and Sheila New- cusses on the energy issue rather view of the peak oil problem. nomic growth has Enriched the man, 2005 than economics or politics. Few, Impoverished the Many Pluto Press, ISBN 978- Hubbert's Peak: The Impending : The and Endangered the Planet 0745320922, £15.99, P/B World Oil Shortage Kenneth S. Deffeyes, 2003 (re- 2005 (the jury's still out on that until Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. economics cannot adequately vised edition) we get a couple of years more Loving, L. Hunter Lovins, 1998 value the environment (it doesn't Princeton University Press, ISBN data). Earthscan, ISBN 978-1853834066, send the right price signals!), and 978-0691116259, £11.95, US £16.99, P/B hence why the theories of econom- The 2030 Spike: Countdown to book, P/B The Club of Rome's report on in- ics cannot hope to accommodate Global Catastrophe A memoir and commentary on the creasing eco-efficiency – but as a the protection of the environment Colin Mason, 2003 geological issues from the Prin- counter point, instead of seeking to as part of their operation. Earthscan, ISBN 978-1844070183, ceton academic who actually increase our wealth, why not avoid £18.99, H/B Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The worked for a while with M. King getting any wealthier than today Mason, a former Australian senat- Unusual Suspect in the quest Hubbert. and cut consumption by a factor of or, outlines the six constraints that for Clean and Enduring Energy four instead? Beyond Oil: The View from threaten to disrupt the status quo Mark Jaccard, 2006 Hubbert's Peak over the next few decades – 1) en- You Can't Eat GNP: Economics Cambridge University Press, ISBN Kenneth S. Deffeyes, 2006 ergy depletion, 2) population as if Ecology Mattered 978-0521679794, £14.99, P/B Hill and Wang, ISBN 978- growth, 3) climate change, 4) food Eric A. Davidson, 2001 An (incredibly) optimistic book 0809029570, $13, US book, P/B supply, 5) water supply and 6) in- Perseus Books, ISBN 978- about the future of oil and gas pro- Deffeyes updates his views on the ternational conflict over nos. 1 to 5. 0738204871, £13.50, US book, duction which takes the highest arrival of peak oil, and states that P/B projections for oil and gas produc- Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, the peak will arrived around late An excellent investigation of why tion as if they were a certainty. Halving Resource Use

Climate & Environment These books deal with the issue of climate change and other pressing environmental problems. Capitalism As If The World Mat- Burning IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report High Tide: How Climate Crisis ters George Monbiot, 2006 later this year. is Engulfing Our Planet Jonathon Porritt, 2005 Allen Lane, ISBN 978- Mark Lynas, 2005 An Inconvenient Truth: The Earthscan, ISBN 978-1844071920, 0713999242, £12.99, P/B Harper Collins, ISBN 978- Planetary Emergency of Global £19.99, H/B George looks at the need to man- 0007139408, £8.99, P/B Warming and What We Can Do A book that contradicts it's own age carbon emissions by overhaul- Looking at the issue of climate About It thesis (page xiv, 3rd paragraph) – ing energy use in the UK (unfortu- change from the people actually Al Gore, 2006 Porritt fails to reconcile the deep nately, although he almost gets experiencing its effects rather than Bloomsbury, ISBN 978- contradiction at the heart of his there, he doesn't delve into the the theoretical or research argu- 0747589068, £14.99, P/B message... classical economic "Less" issue). ments. Al Gore's "book of the film" – learn growth is not possible within the Global Warming: The Complete about the climate change problem Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Laws of Thermodynamics! Briefing with lots of pictures. Under Stress and a Civilization The Revenge of Gaia John Houghton, 2004 (third edi- in Trouble When the Rivers Run Dry: What James Lovelock, 2006 tion) Lester R. Brown, 2006 Happens When Our Water Runs Penguin Books, ISBN 978- Cambridge University Press, ISBN W.W. Norton, ISBN 978- Out? 0141025971, £8.99, P/B 978-0521528740, £24.99, P/B 0393328318, £10.99, US book, Fred Pearce, 2006 Lovelock's controversial book (be- John Houghton, former IPCC chair, P/B Eden Project Books, ISBN 978- cause he advocates nuclear power outlines in semi-non-technical lan- A very US oriented book that con- 1903919576, £18.99, H/B – pity he didn't check the level of guage the findings of the IPCC's siders the impacts of climate One of the best books on the other uranium resources first) on how Third Assessment Report on Cli- change, the wider environmental essential global resource – water – the Earth will threaten humanity if mate Change – a good outline of crisis, and how the US needs to re- and how the supply of water humanity doesn't change its ways. the issues and consequences of organise itself to deal with these across the globe is entering a climate change, but will be a little problems. Heat: How to Stop the Planet severe depletion phase. out-dated with the release of the

Practical Alternatives These books deal with some responses to the problems of energy depletion and climate change – essentially it's all about changing your lifestyle to live at a far lower level of energy and resource consumption. The NEW Complete Book of moted by design. tion) A guide to recycling an important Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Collins, ISBN 978-0002201599, nutrient source – your poo – back How to Make a Forest Garden Guide for Realists and Dream- £16.99, P/B into your vegetable garden. Patrick Whitefield, 2002 (revised ers A revised edition of Mabey's excel- edition) Back Garden Seed Saving: John Seymour and Will Suther- lent 1972 book on living from Permanent Publications, ISBN Keeping Your Vegetable Herit- land, 2003 (rather than off) the land (as well 978-1856230087, £14.95, P/B age Alive Doring Kindersley, ISBN 978- as the bookshelf edition there's a Another excellent design guide, fo- Sue Stickland, 2001 0751364422, £20.00, H/B pocket-sized field-guide by Collins, cussing specifically on developing Eco-Logic Books, ISBN 978- The revised edition of the classic 978-0007183036, £4.99). (for want of a better term) "edible 1899233090, £12.95, P/B book on low-impact living. An es- landscapes". The New Woodburner's Hand- It's one thing to plant seed, but at sential source – albeit with the book: A Guide to Safe, Healthy the end of the year you need to warning that it assumes you pos- Permaculture: Principles and and Efficient Woodburning store seed for the following year – sess a lot of skills that are not de- Pathways Beyond Sustainabil- Stephen Bushway, 1992 this excellent guide shows you tailed in the book (for which you'll ity Storey Books, ISBN 978- how. need to refer to other beginner's David Holmgren, 2003 0882667881, £9.99, US book, P/B guides for if you don't have them). Holmgren Design Services, ISBN Sprouters Handbook A good guide to all the different 978-0646418445, £15.99, P/B Edward Cairney, 1997 The Earth Care Manual: A Per- ways to burn wood, and the pre- From the co-founder of "permacul- Argyll Publishing, ISBN 978- maculture Handbook for Britain cautions you need to take to en- ture", this book leads you through 1874640486, £4.99, P/B and Other Temperate Climates sure you don't pollute the atmo- the philosophy and theory of per- Begin your quest for own-made Patrick Whitefield, 2004 sphere. maculture design as a solution to food with the most simple method Permanent Publications, ISBN the problems of our future exist- The Humanure Handbook: of cultivation – sprout seeds (far 978-1856230216, £39.95, H/B ence (not much use if you're look- Guide to Composting Human more energy efficient, and nutri- A practical permaculture design ing for something practical, but Manure tious, than buying lettuce for most manual for those wishing to devel- good if you want to get deeper into Joseph Jenkins, 2006 (third edi- of the year). op low-impact methods of food the transformation process). tion) production – but it's also a damn Saving the Planet Without Cost- Jenkins Publishing, ISBN 978- good introduction to the holistic Food for Free ing the Earth: 500 Simple Steps 0964425835, £16.95, US book, analysis of living systems pro- Richard Mabey, 2001 (revised edi- to a Greener Lifestyle P/B Donnachadh McCarthy, 2004 Homesteading the City house and garden. Manual for Self-Reliance and Fusion Press, ISBN 978- Christopher and Dolores Nyerges, Planetary Survival Self Reliance: A Recipe for the 1904132394, £11.99, P/B 2002 Matthew Stein, 2000 New Millennium McCarthy's self-assessment manu- Chelsea Green, ISBN 978- Clear Light, ISBN 978- John Yeoman, 1999 al on "how green is your lifestyle" – 1890132361, £12.95, US book, 1574160475, £12.50, US book, Permanent Publications, ISBN it's got lots of good ideas, but the P/B P/B 978-1856230155, £16.95, P/B most useful aspect of the self-as- An excellent book that looks at Definitely springing from the "sur- Although a little scatter-gun in its sessment approach is that it en- how you do back to the land per- vivalist" wing of the energy deple- format, this book contains some ables you to set out a clear maculture in the middle of a city – tion movement, once you get past little practical jewels for adapting baseline to measure your progress this inspiring couple show how it is the doomsday rhetoric it contains yourself to a more low energy/low in the future. possible to lead low impact life- some sensible, practical solution cost existence. styles within the confines of your for personal energy descent. Extreme Simplicity: When Technology Fails: A

Technical Energy and Construction These books give more advanced alternatives, which means building, renovation, and becoming engaged in the technical planning of energy descent.

Eco-Renovation: The Ecologic- sumption that few other books depth data tables for building/sys- Introduction to Architectural al Home Improvement Guide provide. tems design Science: The Basis of Sustain- Edward Harland, 2004 (updated able Design Renewable Energy: Power for a The Homebuilder's Handbook: edition) Steven V. Szokolay, 2003 Sustainable Future The Sourcebook for Profession- Green Books, ISBN 1870098528, Architectural Press, ISBN 978- Godfrey Boyle, 2004 (second edi- als, Self-Builders and Home £9.95, P/B 0750658492, £24.99, P/B tion) Renovators A simple, practical, step-by-step An excellent guide (if you're good Oxford University Press, ISBN Home Renovation Magazine, 2005 guide to addressing the energy use with maths) to assessing the heat, 978-0199261789, £27.99, P/B (third edition) of your home. light and environmental needs of As above, but this volume looks at Ascent Publishing, ISBN 978- buildings. A good resource for The Home Energy Diet: How to renewable energy systems. 0955204302, £25.00, P/B those who've moved beyond basic Save Money by Making Your The "non-green" competitor to the The Green Building Bible: Es- energy auditing. House Energy Smart Green Building Bible – but it's a sential Information to Help You Paul Scheckel, 2005 useful guide to building products Renewable Energy: Its Physics, Make Your Home and Buildings New Society Publishers, ISBN and installation companies provid- Engineering, Environmental Im- Less Harmful to the Environ- 978-0865715301, $18.95, US ing glazing, insulation, electrical pacts, Economics and Planning ment, the Community and Your book, P/B services, etc. Bent Sørenson, 2004 (third edition) Family Similar to the above, it's a US view Academic Press, ISBN 0-12656- Keith Hall, 2006 (third edition) Building Construction Hand- of how to upgrade your home to re- 153-2, £39.99, H/B Green Building Press, ISBN 978- book (Incorporating Current duce energy (it's a good comple- Extremely heavy-duty academic 1898130031, £9.95, P/B Building and Construction Reg- ment to the information in Eco- reference text on renewable en- Excellent source of info. on green ulations) Renovation). ergy systems, but very useful if you building and contact details for the Roy Chudley and Roger Greeno, want to get into the abstract detail Energy Systems and Sustainab- companies who sell it. 2006 (6th ed) of what renewable energy can ility: Power for a Sustainable Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN Green Building Bible: In Depth practically achieve. Future 978-0750668224, £22.99, P/B Technical Information and Data Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett and If you're going to get into energy- Renewable Energy Resources on the Strategies and Systems Janet Ramage, 2003 conscious design you're going to John Twidell and Tony Weir, 2005 Needed to Create Low Energy, Oxford University Press, ISBN get into building – and that means (second edition) Green Buildings 978-0199261796, £29.99, P/B Building Regulations. This is a Spon Press, ISBN 978- Keith Hall, 2006 (third edition) An Open University text book, but good source of practical design 0419253303, £31.95, P/B Green Building Press, ISBN 978- it provides an excellent, simple- ideas to meet the requirements of Another heavy duty academic ref- 1898130048, £9.95, P/B English introduction to the whole Building Regs. erence text, but a little lighter than Companion to the above with in- concept of energy and energy con- the above.

Green & Glossy Books that are a little more mainstream/oriented towards the mass consumer market – heavy on the colour pictures, light on the revolution (it's not that they're bad, they're just a little more glossy than most!). It's Not Easy Being Green: One No Waste Like Home 0936070339, £14.99, US book, Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Dav- Family's Journey towards Eco- Penney Poyzer, 2005 P/B is, 2004 (reprint) Friendly Living Virgin Books, ISBN 978- An inspirational successor to the The Taunton Press, ISBN 978- Dick Strawbridge, 2006 0753510278, £12.95, P/B 70's book "Shelter", which looks at 1561586448, £17.95, US book, BBC Books, ISBN 978- Excellent guide to the simple, low- alternative methods of building P/B 0563493464, £18.99, H/B investment ways by which you can homes (definitely a coffee table Another Shelter clone, but it gives One family's view of how to be cut your energy use, waste produc- book – you'd never get most of its some excellent examples of more green. You can be technically crit- tion, and save cash. content past Building Regulations mainstream low-impact dwellings ical of the odd thing, but you can't approval in the UK!). that have a far better chance of Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter fault their effort and commitment to getting past Building Regulations Lloyd Kahn, 2004 The Cabin: Inspiration for the change. approval (if you can get planning Shelter Publications, ISBN 978- Classic American Getaway permission!).

Classics If you want to understand the problems of the present it's worth returning to the primary sources of the environment movement. These books my be old, and often out-of-print, but they're still relevant to today's problems.

Only One Earth Conference in 1972 (the "Stock- that inspired the modern environ- looks at the progress since the Barbara Ward and Rene' Dubos, holm Conference") and why it is so ment movement. Stockholm Conference (err., not a 1972 important for world leaders to act lot!). Progress for a Small Planet Pelican Books, ISBN 978- on the messages that came from Barbara Ward, 1979 Small is Beautiful: A Study of 0140216011, S/H, P/B the conference (err, don't think Penguin Books, ISBN 978- Economics as if People A book on the impact of the First they got the message!). It's a very 0140222555, S/H, H/B Mattered UN Environment and Development illuminating review of the issues An update to Only One Earth that E.F. Schumacher, 1993 (new edi- tion) Penguin Books, ISBN 978- about environmental limits in the world during the 70s and 80s. Vintage, ISBN 978-0099225614, 0140219241, S/H, P/B modern consciousness, and which Five Acres and Independence £7.99, P/B Another book ahead of its time ultimately led to the formation of M.G. Kains, 1973 (new edition) Although many in the environment (he's talking about Hubbert's meth- the Club of Rome and the Limits to Dover Publications, ISBN 978- movement look to this book as the ods and their implications for oil re- Growth report. 0486209746, $7.95, US book, P/B definitive statement on green eco- sources... in 1976!) – a great re- Gaia: A New Look at Life on A good, practical ideas book on nomics, it's worth noting that Schu- view of the energy questions facing Earth small-scale farming. First pub- macher also expresses a concern the UK, which clearly haven't James Lovelock, 2000 (new edi- lished in 1935, the best way to de- about the effects of the growth of changed over the last 30 years. tion) scribe this is the US equivalent of energy consumption. Silent Spring Oxford P/Bs, ISBN 978- John Seymour's "Practical Self- Small is Still Beautiful Rachel Carson, 2000 (new edition) 0192862181, £7.99, P/B Sufficiency", although it was pub- Barbara Wood Schumacher and Penguin Books, ISBN 978- James Lovelock's first stating of lished 40 years before! Joseph Pearce, 2002 0141184944, £9.99, P/B the Gaia Hypothesis, which Cottage Economy Harper Collins, ISBN 978- This is the book that launched the launched Earth systems science, William Cobbett, 2000 (new edi- 0007142156, £9.99, P/B popular wave of environmental and ultimately many of the meth- tion) A review of Small is Beautiful, up- consciousness in the 1960s – it's a ods that are being used today to Very and Von Kanitz, ISBN 978- dating its message for the new pity that so few modern environ- address global environmental 0953832507, £8.99, P/B Century. mentalists have read it! problems such as climate change. Cobbett's writing influenced John Fuel's Paradise: Energy Op- Since Silent Spring This Land is Our Land Seymour's work, and in this repub- tions for Britain Frank Graham Jr., 1970 Marion Shoard, 2000 (new edition) lished work you can see how Cob- Peter Chapman, 1975 Pan Books, ISBN 978- Gaia Books, ISBN 978- bett's ideas influenced the early Penguin Books, ISBN 978- 0330029384, S/H, P/B 1856750646, £10.99, P/B self-sufficiency movement 150 0140523164, S/H, P/B A book that updates Silent Spring A book on land rights in the UK, years later. An excellent review of energy and – Carson died shortly after publica- and how we need to change the Blueprint for a Green Planet: growth that was well ahead of its tion of her book, so this book takes nature of the ownership and con- How You Can Take Practical time (e.g., he's discussion the re- up her campaign and shows that trol of land if we are to develop a Action Today to Fight Pollution source constraints on the future her concerns were proved right more sustainable society. John Seymour and Herbert use of nuclear power) – it clearly (even in the face of strong opposi- Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Giradet, 1987 outlines the resource issues be- tion/obfuscation from the chemical Primer for Realistic Radicals Doring Kindersley, ISBN 978- hind economic growth, and the industry). Saul D. Alinsky, 1989 (re-issued) 0863181788, S/H, H/B need to significantly redesign the The Population Bomb Vintage, ISBN 978-0679721130, Seymour's book that shifted the energy economy to avoid resource Paul Ehrlich, 1968 $12.95, US book, P/B debate from mere self-sufficiency depletion. Ballantine Books, ISBN 978- One of the great books on the the- to low impact lifestyles. The Energy Question 0345216571, S/H, US book, P/B ory/practice of community activism Gerald Foley, 1976 The book that launched the debate that inspired groups around the

Transport Transport is one of the key parts of the energy depletion and climate change problems – these books provide some alternative ideas on how we need to tackle the transport problem.

Critical Mass: transport, Environment and Society in the Twenty- Unsustainable transport: City transport in the New Century First Century David Bannister, 2005 (new edition) John Whitelegg, 1996 Taylor and Francis, ISBN 978-0415357906, £38.00, P/B Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745310824, £16.99, P/B A review of the latest issue in transport planning, and the need to ad- A review of the transport problems of the UK from an ecological per- dress congestion and climate change through the radical redesign of our spective, and how we must modify our travel habits to address energy private and public transport systems. use, climate change and the destruction of our environment.

Directly Unrelated, but Interesting There are a number of books which are strictly not about peak energy, but which provide such a valuable description of the “big- ger picture” that it would be a shame to exclude them from this list.

Alluenza and environmental damage. the agribusiness and food indus- Jeremy P Tarcher, ISBN 978- Oliver James, 2007 tries produce your dinner. 1585421398, $14.95, US book, Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Com- Vermillion, ISBN 978-0-09190-010- P/B plexity and the Emergence of Toxic Sludge is Good for You: 6, £17.99, H/B Another excellent book from Life Lies, Damn Lies and the Public James' excellent psychological dis- Stauber and Rampton, this time John Gribben, 2005 Relations Industry assembly of the crisis at the heart looking at how industry use sci- Penguin Books, ISBN 978- John Stauber and Sheldon Ramp- of our most developed societies... ence to mislead and obfuscate 0141007229, £8.99, P/B ton, 2004 (new UK edition) people just aren't happy with more! public debate (another issue relev- For those with a bent for pure Constable and Robinson, ISBN ant to peak oil and climate The Tipping Point: How Little maths, this book looks at the issue 978-1841199542, £6.99, P/B change). Things Can Make a Big Differ- of natural non-linear systems, and One of the best books on recent ence the problems they pose for human- times about how big business uses Why Most Things Fail... and Malcolm Gladwell, 2002 (new edi- ity in our quest to control our envir- public relations to confuse and fool How to Avoid It tion) onment. the public (relevant given this has Paul Ormerod, 2005 Abacus, ISBN 978-0349113463, just started in relation tot he peak Faber and Faber, ISBN 978- Not on the Label: What Really £7.99, P/B oil issue, certainly in the USA). 0571220137, £8.99, P/B Goes into the Food on Your Not directly energy related, but it's Economist Paul Ormerod exam- Plate Trust Us, We're Experts: How an excellent introduction to the is- ines why economists and govern- Felicity Lawrence, 2004 Industry Manipulates Science sue of non-linear processes – ments ignore one of the major as- Penguin Books, ISBN 978- and Gambles With Your Future something that's extremely relev- pects of our modern economic sys- 0141015668, £8.99, P/B John Stauber and Sheldon Ramp- ant to the issue of climate change tems... failure. A rather unsettling expose' of how ton, 2002 (new edition)

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