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The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

10 best books like The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World (Paul Roberts): Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Salt: A World History, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - Revised and Updated Edition

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
AuthorCarl Sagan
ISBN0345379187
In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0143036556
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
Salt: A World History
AuthorMark Kurlansky
ISBN0142001619
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World

In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805076263
The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy.

For the...
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805090568
Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

That new planet is filled with new binds...
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
AuthorPaul Hawken
ISBN0670038520
One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity

Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
AuthorThom Hartmann
ISBN1400051576
While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for...
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
AuthorJames Howard Kunstler
ISBN0802142494
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.

Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - Revised and Updated Edition
AuthorKenneth S. Deffeyes
ISBN0691116253
Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970.


In this revised and updated edition reflecting the latest information...
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