The Post Carbon Reader torrent

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises

How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience.

This insightful, award-winning collection takes a hard-nosed look at the interconnected threats of our global sustainability quandary and presents some of the most promising responses. The Post Carbon Reader has proven to be a valuable resource for policymakers, college classrooms, and concerned citizens.

Chapters

1. Beyond the Limits to Growth, Richard Heinberg
2. What Is Sustainability?, Richard Heinberg
3. Thinking ‘Resilience’, William E. Rees
4. A New World, Bill McKibben
5. The International Response to Climate Change, Richard Douthwaite
6. The Upshot: What Is to Be Done?, David Orr
7. Water: Adapting to a New Normal, Sandra Postel
8. Peak Nature?, Stephanie Mills
9. Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate, Michael Bomford
10. Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil, Wes Jackson
11. Growing Community Food Systems, Erika Allen
12. Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else, William N. Ryerson
13. Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America, Peter C. Whybrow
14. Remapping Relationships: Humans in Nature, Gloria Flora
15. The Human Nature of Unsustainability, William E. Rees
16. Making Sense of Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty, Daniel Lerch
17. Hydrocarbons in North America, J. David Hughes
18. Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy, David Fridley
19. Peak Oil and the Great Recession, Tom Whipple
20. Ecological Economics, Joshua Farley
21. Money and Energy, Richard Douthwaite
22. The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies, Michael H. Shuman
23. The Death of Sprawl: Designing Urban Resilience for the Twenty-First-Century Resource and Climate Crises, Warren Karlenzig
24. Smart Decline in Post-Carbon Cities: The Buffalo Commons Meets Buffalo, New York, Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper
25. Toward Zero-Carbon Buildings, Hillary Brown
26. Local Government in a Time of Peak Oil and Climate Change, John Kaufmann
27. Transportation in the Post-Carbon World, Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl
28. Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste, Bill Sheehan and Helen Spiegelman
29. Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change, Cindy L. Parker and Brian S. Schwartz
30. Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability, Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow
31. Community Colleges: A Vital Resource for Education in the Post-Carbon Era, Nancy Lee Wood
32. Personal Preparation, Chris Martenson
33. What Can Communities Do?, Rob Hopkins
34. What Now? The Path Forward Begins with One Step, Asher Miller