books by Richard Heinberg     books:     Richard Heinberg      Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers) Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2007 Peak Everything, Waking Up to a Century of Decline Excellent summation of the ecological problems facing us, not only as a people but a nation and world. Pulls it all together in one book. Excellent.             A New Covenant With Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture Richard Heinberg Quest Books, 1996 Broad-range discussion, totally grounded on fundamental questions. So broad yet rightly detailed -- a rare combination in modern writing. The book cannot be simplified into one idea, but the big question seems to be, are our cultural choices inhuman and even worse? Clearly and sincerely written, so that anyone anywhere on the ...             Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age Richard W. Heinberg Tarcher, 1989 Every human culture has a myth of the "fall" Did you really think Adam and Eve were unique or unprecedented? Every human culture has a myth of the "fall" from an original golden-age of peace and prosperity to death and disease, including eskimos, aborigines and Native Americans. The author examines "fall" myths ...             Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2004 Excellent overview... As with "The Long Emergency" I won't go into too much detail since there are already many excellent reviews of this book. However, I do feel it is important to add my voice since all the evidence points to the fact that what Heinberg and the other "peak oil" folks are ...             Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony Richard Heinberg Quest Books, 1993 Holidays for World Renewal A couple of years ago, I put out a winter holiday greeting on the Web. Its purpose: to explore the ancient origins of the winter holiday season and its deep cross-cultural roots, and to help me give greater meaning to my own celebration at this time of the year. ...             The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience Rob Hopkins Green Books, 2008 One of the Most Important Handbooks of Our Time Rob Hopkins writes about the context for starting a transition town and then follows with step-by-step instructions on the action steps involved with bringing awareness and hope to communities. Transition towns spring from a grassroots initiative to do something ...             Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology Richard Heinberg Quest Books, 1999 Makes for compelling reading for modern times Written by Richard Heinberg (journalist, essayist, lecturer, and publisher of "MuseLetter"), Cloning The Buddha: The Moral Impact Of Biotechnology is a serious and thoughtful ethical study of the divisive issues arising from modern biotechnology. Starting with the ...             Resonance Richard Heinberg Emanation Press, 1977 The New Age Science of Matter, Mind and Spirit 124 pages             The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2006 Bottom Line Deadly Serious All of the non-fiction reading that I have done supports this author's presenation of both the consequences of doing nothing, and practical bottom line: a 3% reduction per year for the next ten to twenty years, of gross consumption (per capita is meaningless when the ...             The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2005 The Future is Now If you want to know what the near future holds for you, your family and society, Heinberg does a reasonably good job at describing it for the reader. There are, in my opinion, some limits to his content, as well as some "disinformation" about the field of economics, ...             Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis Richard Heinberg Post Carbon Press, 2009 Coal fuels about fifty percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country?s total energy. China and India?s ferocious economic growth is based on coal-generated electricity. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, ...             The Party\'s Over Richard Heinberg Arab Scientific Publishers, 2006 The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically, and even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from ...             Dreamflesh: A Journal of Body, Psyche, Ecological Crisis & Archaeologies of Consciousness: v. 1 Amodali, Pablo Amaringo, ... Dreamflesh, 2006             Memories and Visions of Paradise Richard W. Heinberg Unknown, 1994 Memories and Visions of Paradise I was very disappointed in this book. I had read a book with the same title and by the same author, but it was almost 300 pages long. This book had very little of the information that the one I had read had. I don't know how a book with the same title and by the ...             Power Down Richard Heinberg Arab Scientific Publishers, 2006 If the U.S. continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the U.S, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a ...          products you might be interested in search for books archaeologies, biotechnology, civilization, consciousness, post-carbon, resilience      toavi.com    web we recommend The Future is Now randomly chosen book: Entdecken und Verstehen, Geschichtsbuch für Berlin, 5./6. Schuljahr