Local Future Suggested Study
Local Future recommends these sources for understanding the current situation and then ideas for sustainable local cultures:
YouTube
The Local Future Network features hours of exclusive video, including lectures, discussions, panels and interviews with visionaries, activists, and leaders, including: Steve Keen, Joseph Tainter, David Goodstein, Richard Heinberg, Ellen Brown, Nicole Foss, Albert Bates, Richard Douthwaite, Randy Udall, Kurt Cobb, Aaron Wissner, Michael Ruppert, Megan Quinn Bachman, Pat Murphy, Matthew Simmons, Peter Bane, KMO, Ken Deffeyes, Kurt Cobb, Leslie Glustrom, Thaddeus Owen, Ben Dyson, Stephanie Mills, Vern Ehlers, Julian Darley, David Korowicz, and Peter Sinclair.
Books
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Daniel Quinn
- The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change - Albert Bates
- The Transition Handbook - Rob Hopkins
- The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
- The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies - Richard Heinberg
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
- Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender - Thomas Greco
- Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned - Steve Keen
- The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community - David Korten
Films
- What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
- The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- The Corporation
- Money as Debt
- Manufacturing Consent
- Why We Fight
- Germs, Guns and Steel
- End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Web Sites