August 28, 2008
Resources
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Books
Beyond Oil, The View From Hubbert’s Peak.
By Kenneth S. Deffeyes. 2006. Hill and Wang.
Deffeyes looks at the earth’s supply of potential replacement fuels and their likely production futures. World oil production will start to fall sometime during this decade, never to rise again. In 1956, M. King Hubbert predicted that U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970's. Although Hubbert was widely criticized by some oil experts and economists, in 1971 Hubbert's prediction came true. The 100 year period when most of the world's oil is being discovered became known as "Hubbert's Peak". The peak stands in contrast to the hundreds of millions of years the oil deposits took to form. Hubbert's methods predict a peak in world oil production less than five years away
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
Jared Diamond. 2005. Penguin Books.
Diamond explores how humankind’s use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world’s great collapses.
Cradle to Cradle. William McDonough & Michael Braungart.
2002. North Point Press.
McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new.
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate.
Rocky Mountain Institute. 1998. John Wiley & Sons.
"Green building"--the trend toward more environmentally responsible construction--has become a popular movement among architects, but it is less well understood by the developers and owners who control funding. This book is the first to demonstrate the advantages of green development, using case studies of developers and owners who built environmentally responsible projects that have delivered superior financial rewards.
Mid-Course Correction.
Ray C. Anderson. 1998. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
Ray Anderson recounts his awakening to the importance of environmental issues and outlines the steps his company is taking to become a sustainable enterprise.
Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution.
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. 1999.
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company.
This book reveals how tomorrow’s most successful global businesses will draw profit from their own environmental responsibility.
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.
Lester R. Brown. W. W. Norton & Company. 2006.
Updated and expanded version of 2003 edition of Plan B. Purpose of book is to make a convincing case for building the new economy, to offer a more detailed vision of what it would look like, and to provide a roadmap of how to get from here to there.
The Ecology of Commerce.
Paul Hawken. HarperBusiness, 1993.
Outlines environmentally destructive aspects of current business practices and offers the vision of businesses adopting new practices to promote environmental restoration.
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.
Paul Roberts. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
The New York Review of Books calls this book "the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications.”
The Hidden Connections.
Fritjof Capra. 2002. Doubleday.
The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues of our time.
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift.
Andres R. Edwards. New Society Publishers. 2005.
This book, now in its third printing, paints a picture of this largely unrecognized phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of society, concluding that the values emerging from sustainability work define a major paradigm shift. The first book of its kind, it will appeal to business and government policy makers, academics, and all interested in sustainability.
The Triple Bottom Line: How Today’s Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success – and How You Can Too.
Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber.
A blueprint for executives and companies to find their way to a sustainable, profitable future in today's daunting era of environmental and social accountability. It does that partly through hard-headed case studies - some success stories, other abject failures.
Twilight In The Desert.
Matthew R. Simmons. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Looks behind the curtain to reveal a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline.
Videos
An Inconvenient TruthA passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change
March of the PenguinsEach winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Resolute, indomitable, driven by the overpowering urge to reproduce, to assure the survival of the species.
Periodical Articles
“How To Kick the Oil Habit.” Fortune. vol. 150, No. 4, August 23, 2004, pp. 100-114.
“The End of Cheap Oil.” National Geographic. vol. 205, No. 6, June 2004. pp. 80-109.
“The End of Oil.” Rolling Stone. April 7, 2005. pp. 45-48.
A review of the forthcoming book by James Howard Kunstler detailing "What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? Within the next few years, we'll find out. And nothing will ever be the same."
The New Greening of America.Newsweek. August 14, 2006.
The Cold, Green Facts Information Weekly, September 3, 2007 issue
Buying energy-efficient technology isn't the only--or even the best--way to cut down on energy consumption in the data center. Rethinking the way you use the technology you already have can make a bigger impact.
Reports
Costing Green: A Comprehensive Cost Database and Budgeting Methodology. July 2004. Lisa Fay Matthiessen, Peter Morris. Davis Langdon.
EPA Report on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency August 2, 2007
On August 2, 2007 and in response to Public Law 109–431 (31KB) the U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR Program released to Congress a report assessing opportunities for energy efficiency improvements for government and commercial computer servers and data centers in the United States.
Vital Signs 2006-2007: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future.
Worldwatch Institute. W.W. Norton, 2006
This report tracks and analyzes 44 trends that are shaping our future, and includes graphs and charts to provide a visual comparison over time. Categories of trends include: Food, Agricultural Resources, Energy and Climate, Global Economy, Resource Economics, Environment, War and Conflict, Communications and Transportation, Population and Society, and Health and Disease.
Winning the Oil Endgame.
Amory B. Lovins.
This report focuses on the next Industrial Revolution and the manner in which the United States and the world must deal with certain oil shortages. The report explores strategies for ending oil dependence and emphasizes the need to develop viable alternative resources. www.oilendgame.com
Web Pages
Energy Information Administration.
Official energy statistics from the U. S. Government.
Hubbert Peak of Oil Production.
This website provides data, analysis and recommendations regarding the upcoming peak in the rate of global oil extraction.
North Carolina State Energy Office.
The State Energy Office is North Carolina's lead agency for energy programs and services and serves as the official source for energy information and assistance for consumers, businesses, government agencies, community colleges and schools and the residential, commercial and industrial sectors.
North Carolina State University, Industries of The Future.
The Industries of the Future Specific Program, begun in 1994, is directed towards pre-competitive research with nine of the most energy intensive industrial sectors, largely commodities-based industries—agriculture, aluminum, chemicals, forest products, glass, metal casting, mining, petroleum refining, and steel.
Rocky Mountain Institute.
Nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.
