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We also believe that telling the alarming truth about collapse and die-off is necessary to get people out of the seductive trance of the renewable energy technofix. We have found the latter to be over-hyped; it cannot allow for a seamless transition, nor realistically offer a future green consumer economy. Living our future now is our safest course in perilous times. http://www.culturechange.org/ Earth First! Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance koy.aa.nis.qat.si (Hopi) [n] 1. crazy life 2. life out of balance 3. life disintegrating 4. life in turmoil 5. a way of life that calls for another way of living. http://the-fourth-world.blogspot.com/ Carolyn Baker All sorts of great articles and links on the age of collapse. http://www.carolynbaker.net/ Civilization was not a fluke -- given human intelligence and mutability, it was inevitable that we would find a way to systematically extend our power beyond our wisdom. And civilization is not all bad -- it has led to valuable innovations and learning. What I don't know is whether we will learn our way out of cancerous behavior, and if so, how long it will take us. http://www.ranprieur.com/ Global economic systems crash not only because of greed, fraud and toxic assets, but because those systems rest on fallacies about the natural world. The Ponzi scams and derivatives swindles of international bankers are no substitute for real economy: the living ecological systems, energy, soils, minerals, forests, and seas. http://rexweyler.com/blog Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a tiny fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels. In short, the end of oil signals the end of civilization, as we know it. http://www.dieoff.org/page1.htm Ecological Internet 
Parklife are a single issue residents campaign group formed in June 2001, to protect Priory Park, Southend on Sea, Essex. We oppose any current or future road schemes, which would have a detrimental impact upon the park and its immediate surroundings. http://www.savepriorypark.org/
The general principles behind Earth First! are non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants. EF! is not a cohesive group or campaign, but a convenient banner for people who share similar philosophies to work under. http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/ 
NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" are the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic. http://www.no2id.net/
Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.
Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations. http://www.seashepherd.org/
Exposing environmental hypocrites everywhere! http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith
Ecological Internet, Inc. specializes in the use of the Internet to achieve ecological science-based environmental conservation outcomes. Ecological Internet's mission is to empower the global movement for environmental sustainability by providing information retrieval tools, portal services, expert analysis and action opportunities that aid in the protection of climate, forest, ocean and water ecosystems; and to commence the age of ecological sustainability and restoration. http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/
Media Lens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable. http://www.medialens.org/
Seeds for Change is a non-profit coop providing training and resources to grassroots campaigners, NGOs, Co-ops and other community groups and organisations in the social sector. On our website we have details of the support we offer, as well as resources for campaigners. http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/
Founded in 1944, The Vegan Society provides advice on ways of living free of animal products for the benefit of people, animals and the planet. http://www.vegansociety.com/
A guide to communal living in Britain. http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/
Welcome to the website of Steward Community Woodland, a permaculture project which aims to demonstrate the value of integrating conservation woodland management techniques with organic growing, traditional skills and crafts and low-impact sustainable living. http://www.stewardwood.org/
Westcliff Land Conservation Society
Just 5 good reasons to rent an allotment with the Westcliff Land Cultivation Society here at Springfield Drive, Westcliff on Sea, Essex;
GOOD FOOD: A chance to grow your own healthy, locally produced fruit and vegetables (and it’s cheaper than the shops!)
GOOD COMMUNITY: Meet other people in a friendly, sociable atmosphere
GOOD HEALTH: Plenty of gentle exercise and fresh air
GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Allotments help to promote biodiversity and encourage habitat for urban wildlife such as birds, hedgehogs, amphibians and reptiles
GOOD FUN: Best of all, having an allotment is about enjoying yourself!
http://www.wlcsallotments.org.uk/
An exploration of how the people of Westcliff on Sea and the surrounding area can prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. Cheap oil has made possible much of what we take for granted. However many experts now agree that world oil production is reaching its peak and that the age of cheap oil is drawing to a close, a phenomenon known as ‘peak oil’. Oil and Gas Journal reports that;
- For every 6 barrels of oil we consume, we are only discovering one new one.
- Nearly all the world’s large oilfields are in decline
- World oil production reached its all time high in 2004, and has declined since
- It takes 10 calories of oil to put 1 calorie of food on our table
http://www.transitionwestcliff.org.uk/
Equinox
Equinox was founded in 2005 to help heal the people of Southend and surrounding areas. Family and friends have pulled together to offer a range of treatments, therapies, workshops and courses to provide healing, support and growth for anyone who needs it. If you are seeking spiritual empowerment, personal change or inner healing, then contact us to find out how we can help! Equinox is situated in the heart of Westcliff and also features a shop stocked with gifts and supplies for yourself and those you love.
http://www.virtualequinox.com/
Books, papers, and films:
BLIND SPOT is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroads, which offer two paths each with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse. Simply put Oil is the DNA of our culture. http://www.blindspotdoc.com/
Nine Miles Two winters of anti-roads protest 'Nine Miles' describes the fight against the Newbury bypass and other road protests of the British Isles in the mid nineteen nineties. It was a fight characterised by extreme cold, fire and community, cider, drugs and living simply in the woods. It was a fight to preserve our natural inheritance, to make the case for sustainable transport in the face of powerful vested interests and, in a wider sense, to stand up for the earth herself at a time when - as now - our lifestyles were often grossly out of balance with the natural order of things. Ten years on, that fight has lost none of its urgency. http://www.ninemiles.co.uk/
Hailed as the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, best-selling author Derrick Jensen returns with a passionate forecast of how industrial civilization, and the persistent and widespread violence it requires, is unsustainable. Jensen's intricate weaving together of history, philosophy, environmentalism, economics, literature and psychology has produced a powerful argument that demands attention in the tradition of such important books as Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Brigid Brophy's Black Ship to Hell. http://www.endgamethebook.org/
Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003, 2005), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society, 2004), The Oil Depletion Protocol (New Society, 2006), and Peak Everything (New Society, 2007). He is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. http://www.richardheinberg.com/
Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, while preserving the best of our collective achievements.
What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire
A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/
This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment. It is not a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, A Matter Of Scale is a book about survival; about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself from the crisis that is unfolding. http://www.amatterofscale.com/
The Olduvai Theory states that the life expectancy of industrial civilization is approximately 100 years: circa 1930-2030.
Energy production per capita (e) defines it. The exponential growth of world energy production ended in 1970 (Postulate 1 is verified). Average e will show no growth from 1979 through circa 2008 (Postulate 2 is confirmed from 1979 through 2003). The rate of change of e will go steeply negative circa 2008 (Postulate 3). World population will decline to about two billion circa 2050 (Postulate 4). A growing number of independent studies concur (see text). http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/sixteen-two/xvi-2-93.pdf
The Hirsch Report on PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION: IMPACTS, MITIGATION, & RISK MANAGEMENT
The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking. http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
Natterjack Press publishes and distributes radical books, pamphlets and articles that inspire resistance to the destruction of nature and community and that provide tools to live healthy, sustainable and liberated lives. http://www.natterjackpress.co.uk/
On the Bling bookshelf:
'Free to be Human' by David Edwards
'Endgame' & 'Culture of Make Believe' by Derrick Jensen
'The Shock Doctrine' by Naomi Klein
'Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight' by Thom Hartmann
'Against Civilisation - Readings and Reflections' by John Zerzan 'Elements of Refusal' by Zerzan
'Four Reasons for the Elimination of Television' by Jerry Mander
'The Final Empire' by William H. Koetke
'The Ascent of Humanity' by Charles Eisenstein
'Peak Everything' by Richard Heinberg
'Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change' by William R Catton Jr
'Against the Grain - How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization' by Richard Manning
'Complexity - Life At The Edge of Chaos' by Roger Lewin
'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman 'The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation' by Thomas Homer-Dixon 'A Green History of the World' by Clive Ponting 'Copse: Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting' by Kate Evans
Are you gonna take the red pill or the blue pill? ;-) 
