Easy Eco Auditing by Donnachadh McCarthy

Reading this great book on how to audit your habits both at work and home and how they impact on the environments.Do you have a compost,a water butt?

Do you buy heavily packaged TV dinners or do you buy organic food from your local farmer's market?All these help in a big way if we all do it together.

In the bathroom take a shower rather than a bath it saves so much water.What about getting a worm farm? They can munch through so much waste.

You can get the book here

The Story of Stuff

A good introduction to how creating more stuff which is supposed to make us happy is actually ruining the planet.

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Power Down By Richard Heinberg

Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

A book I have just finished and looks at ways of navigating the coming peak oil crisis.
The solutions is in building local communities again and turning local land over to food production.
So much fuel is used to grow crops and then move it to the supermarkets that there will be real food shortages unless food is grown and sold locally.
You need to read this book.

How Cuba dealt with the end of oil.

Cuba derived nearly all it's oil from the Soviet Union,so when that country collapsed it had to find a way of maintaining it's economy and food supply without oil.

Power of Community

click on the link to see how Cuba found solutions to this problem by having more people work on the land, and come off a meat based diet, leading to weight loss and better health.

This is a model of how we in the west must change if we are to manage the coming criis well.

Lasts about 54 mins and is well worth watching.