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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises
This diverse collection by best-selling authors, renowned scientists, and experienced activists is an engaging and practical book that will be of interest to the lay reader as well as university students in both graduate and undergraduate courses.
The expert contributors to The Post Carbon Reader were asked to unflinchingly describe the deep and interconnected sustainabilit...more
The expert contributors to The Post Carbon Reader were asked to unflinchingly describe the deep and interconnected sustainabilit...more
Paperback, 523 pages
Published
September 1st 2010
by Watershed Media
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What might a post-carbon future look like? The state of the planet and what we should do about it written by smart people looking at the facts. This is one of the best collections available of essays by key thinkers, scientists, educators, researchers, and players dealing with the increasingly dire realities of our age of climate change, resource depletion, and ecological toxicity. Comprehensive, sober, and sometimes dry assessments of the current state of climate change, biodiversity, populatio...more
Jan 19, 2012
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Daniel Lerch
Publications Director
Post Carbon Institute
If you'd like to connect with other readers and the contributors to this book, be sure to visit our pages on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Most of the book (as well as some extras) is now available for free download at postcarbonreader.com. You can also find some of our related videos there, including our ever-popular 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds.
Daniel Lerch
Publications Director
Post Carbon Institute
Overall, "The Post Carbon Reader" is a great primer on sustainability. Organized as an anthology, each section of essays covers major topics in sustainability, such as climate, energy, water, transportation, food, and waste. It also includes a small, brief section on Transition Towns. Each author uses relatively lay terms to explain sustainability, which is excellent for people who lack significant background in the topic, but leaves those of us who actually study sustainability, yearning for mo...more
This book promises to illustrate the interconnected challenges that humanity faces in the near future (read:TODAY) while at the same time providing concrete actions that can be taken to mitigate them and prepare. The wide ranging essays do indeed cover the gamut; climate, biodiversity, energy, economics, pollution, population, food, water etc are all thoughtfully addressed, sometimes to the point of repetition.
I will say however, that the takeaway any thinking person should have is that the odds...more
I will say however, that the takeaway any thinking person should have is that the odds...more
This is a collection of many essays and articles written by many of the great thinkers on climate change and sustainability issues. For the most part it's pretty informative, and I'm glad I gave it a look. If you want to learn about the myriad ways our society depends on the environment, the ways we're undermining that, and how we could do better, it's a great resource. You can pick it up now and again and just read a section at a time, so don't be turned off by how thick the book is.
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This was actually one of the best books I've read so far regarding sustainability. There are a lot of great authors that are doing great work. This was the first book to really give you hope. It may be a slow process, but I think we have a chance of entering into a post carbon world with some ease. At least I hope. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in sustainability or just curious. It is easy to read and very informative.
May 01, 2011
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I really liked this book and the tone of it. It's a series of essays written by leading experts in various fields ranging from basic climate change to education, health care, energy, etc. The essays are short and very readable, and usually get straight to the point.
The authors have a good grip on what is happening now, and offer suggestions for what might be a good direction to head in the future. The suggestions are much more realist than idealist, and emphasize that we are beyond the preventi...more
The authors have a good grip on what is happening now, and offer suggestions for what might be a good direction to head in the future. The suggestions are much more realist than idealist, and emphasize that we are beyond the preventi...more
Sep 08, 2011
Marts (Thinker)
marked it as sounds-interesting
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geography-environment-development
An interesting title on sustainability, the amazon website provides some more detail and a 'look inside', check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Post-Carbon-Rea...
Pretty good - this book is a compilation of essays be different authors all writing about different aspects of the challenges that need to be coped with in the fact of climate change and peak oil.
Remarkable book. Analysis by multiple authors of our current state with fossil fuel limitations vs the environment vs the recession. I am reading some chapters again because there is so much information. The earth is getting warmer and we are now absorbing only 20% of our carbon production. This is something that we all are going to have to deal with at some time. Better to look closely at it now because it appears that it is only going to get worse. There is a section on food storage and the im...more
Understandable and accessible essays on moving well into the post-carbon world. Recommended.
I liked this collection of essays quite a bit. I found many fascinating and concise excerpts detailing the challenges that we as a species will face in the future post-carbon world. I highly recommend this to people of a progressive mindset and I'm not confident that the book would be as well received by those with an inherently opposed worldview. For this reason, I am afraid books like this preach to the choir.
fantastic book - a "sustainability bootcamp" in a book
A great book (so far) on what sustainability really means in terms of energy, climate, water, population. I liked the five axioms of sustainability, but unnerving in that we've identified the issues, looking for solutions.
Thoroughly depressing
Currently I've read 4 of the essays all the way through, and skimmed the rest. Current opinion: this is the book I want to do a discussion seminar on. It's fantastically solutions focused, and also eminently practical. Are there topics missing or which could have more depth? Sure - but that's what the seminar is for. Worth buying even though you can download a lot of it for free.
This is one of the most comprehensive and informative books I've read about sustainability. I didn't always agree with the conclusions, but the authors gave me plenty to think about and explore further.
Excellent series of essays on the global post-carbon era and what we need to do face the challenges of peak oil and diminishing economic and ecological resources.
Class text.
Absolutely the most useful, best written of the sustainability/peak oil/relocalization texts on the market. A must own.
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