Books, Video & Radio Broadcasts

 Many of these books and films are available at your local library.  (Please let us know of other recommended resources not listed).

• The End of Food
• Life, Money & Illusion
• The Growth Illusion
• Small is Beautiful
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
• For the Common Good
• The Long Emergency
• Manufacturing Consent
• Food Inc: A Participant Guide

Videos

• The Economics of Happiness -  www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org.
• ​The Story of Stuff
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The End of Suburbia
• Who Killed the Electric Car
• Walmart: The High Price of Low Cost
• The Age of Stupid
• Food Inc.
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• Fast Food Nation
•  Peak Oil and a Changing Climate; many experts in the field discuss the Peak Oil and climate Change
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• Youtube has good search features - so type in Permaculture or Peak Oil or Climate Change and browse some of the videos.
• Watch  Farm for the Future - Rebecca Hoskins. This great video explores the dependency on fossil fuels to farm and produce food. (Watch each of five parts via Youtube). The section on a "fossil fuel sandwich" alone is worth watching through this.
• Watch Richard Heinberg defines Peak Oil. 
• Watch Jeff Rubin really pin the economic impact of peak oil at the  Business of Climate Change Conference 2009
• Watch The Story of CAP and Trade to learn about the  climate change solution being talked about in Washington and Ottawa.
• And to understand the impact of our Consumer Society watch The Story of Stuff. The core message "You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely
• ​The video Plenitude The New Economics of True Wealth suggests an alternative to our consumer life style
• Are the Alberta Tar Sands good for the economy, the climate and Canada? Here is one view in Dirty Oil; Alberta's Tar Sands explained.
• Watch Permaculture Principles and Pathways - David Holmgren.
• A particularly wasteful habit - Bottled Water - has a significant impact on our oil consumption and CO2 pollution. View some facts in the video. 

TRANSITION TOWNS: An Interview with Rob Hopkins                          

Rob Hopkins' Transition Handbook                          

The Twelve Steps Rob Hopkins 1-6    The Twelve Steps Rob Hopkins 7-12

•  CBC Radio's Dispatches on Reaching Peak Oil, and Next Stop Transition Town - scroll down to August 27^{th /}30^th 2009
• CBC Radio's The Current on "Tough New Planet" April 15th, 2010
• Peak Oil and Canadian Agri-food on CBC Radio - This Hour October 2009
• CBC Radio's Watershed