Links of Interest

Essays and Other Writings:

• Peak Oil Brief
• Hirsch Report
• We are Made out of Sunlight
• Eating Fossil Fuels
• Local Production for Local Consumption
• The Oil We Eat

Websites:

• 2006 Midwest Small Farm Conference - February 11, 2006 (Crawfordsville, IN)
• Boulevard-Plaza Development Project (Indianapolis, IN)
• Earth Solar Technologies
• Crawfordsville Mainstreet Association
• Cope Environmental Center (Richmond, IN)
• Association for the Study of Peak Oil - USA
• U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• The Oil Drum
• Center for Sustainable Community (Stelle, IL)
• Center for Ecoliteracy
• Branches Magazine
• American Solar Energy Society
• Midwest Renewable Energy Association
• Illinois Solar Energy Association
• Bloomingpeak
• Chevron Energy
• Energy Bulletin
• Center for a New American Dream
• Real Goods Catalogue
• Sustainable Management MBA
• Dancing Rabbit
• Fellowship for Intentional Community

Magazines:

• Yes!
• Utne
• Harper's Magazine
• Mother Earth News

Weblog:

• How to Save the World:Dave Pollard's environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays
• Peaknik Blog (Logansport, IN)

For personal reflections regarding attendance at the Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions please visit:

• http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/peak-oil-conference-friday.html
• http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/peak-oil-conference-saturday-morning.html
• http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/peak-oil-conference-saturday-afternoon.html
• http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/peak-oil-conference-sunday-and-conclusions.html

Recommended Books:

• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken 
• You Can't Eat GNP: Economics As If Ecology Mattered by Eric A. Davidson
• The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late by Thom Hartmann
• Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson
• Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins
• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Greg MacLeod
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
• The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World  by Sherry Ruth Anderson Ph.D., Paul H. Ray Ph.D.
• Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century by Marianne Williamson (Editor), Joseph Sohm (Photographer)
• The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
• Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg
• Going Local: Creating Self Reliant Communities in a Global Age by Michael Shuman
• Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Senseby John E. Ikerd
• Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communitiesby Diane Leafe Christiansen