Local Future Suggested Study

Local Future recommends the following sources of study for understanding the current economic model and possible new models for a sustainable local future.

Books

1. The Transition Handbook - Rob Hopkins
2. The Long Emergency  - James Howard Kunstler
3. The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies - Richard Heinberg
4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
5. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Daniel Quinn
6. Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender - Thomas Greco
7. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community - David Korten

Videos

1. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
2. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
3. The Corporation
4. Money as Debt
5. Manufacturing Consent
6. Why We Fight
7. Germs, Guns and Steel
8. End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

Web Sites

1. The Automatic Earth
2. The Crash Course - Chris Martenson
3. Energy Bulletin
4. Transition Voice
5. The Oil Drum
6. Wikipedia