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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience. This insightful, award-winning collection takes a hard-nosed look at the interconnected threats of our global sustainability quandary and presents some of the most promising responses. The Post Carbon Reader has proven to be a valuable resource for policymakers, college classrooms, and concerned citizens. Chapters 1. Beyond the Limits to Growth, Richard Heinberg 2. What Is Sustainability?, Richard Heinberg 3. Thinking ‘Resilience’, William E. Rees 4. A New World, Bill McKibben 5. The International Response to Climate Change, Richard Douthwaite 6. The Upshot: What Is to Be Done?, David Orr 7. Water: Adapting to a New Normal, Sandra Postel 8. Peak Nature?, Stephanie Mills 9. Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate, Michael Bomford 10. Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil, Wes Jackson 11. Growing Community Food Systems, Erika Allen 12. Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else, William N. Ryerson 13. Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America, Peter C. Whybrow 14. Remapping Relationships: Humans in Nature, Gloria Flora 15. The Human Nature of Unsustainability, William E. Rees 16. Making Sense of Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty, Daniel Lerch 17. Hydrocarbons in North America, J. David Hughes 18. Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy, David Fridley 19. Peak Oil and the Great Recession, Tom Whipple 20. Ecological Economics, Joshua Farley 21. Money and Energy, Richard Douthwaite 22. The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies, Michael H. Shuman 23. The Death of Sprawl: Designing Urban Resilience for the Twenty-First-Century Resource and Climate Crises, Warren Karlenzig 24. Smart Decline in Post-Carbon Cities: The Buffalo Commons Meets Buffalo, New York, Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper 25. Toward Zero-Carbon Buildings, Hillary Brown 26. Local Government in a Time of Peak Oil and Climate Change, John Kaufmann 27. Transportation in the Post-Carbon World, Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl 28. Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste, Bill Sheehan and Helen Spiegelman 29. Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change, Cindy L. Parker and Brian S. Schwartz 30. Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability, Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow 31. Community Colleges: A Vital Resource for Education in the Post-Carbon Era, Nancy Lee Wood 32. Personal Preparation, Chris Martenson 33. What Can Communities Do?, Rob Hopkins 34. What Now? The Path Forward Begins with One Step, Asher Miller

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