Ottawa Crude Awakening Forum Reports - Full Report | Summary

Peak Oil Countdown Clock

Websites

• Peak Oil Primer - Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
• Post Carbon Institute
• Wikipedia entry on peak oil
• Adaptation Zine - "Evolving into the post hydrocarbon century"
• Massive Change - The Future of Global Design
  1. Learn
  2. Act

News sources

• Articles in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The Financial Post, CNN Money, Financial Times
• Global Public Media

Blogs

• Peak Perspectives - a cooperative blog for Ottawa Crude Awakening advocates
• David Delaney's Blog
• Alternative energy - Renewable energy
• Crude Thoughts | Commodity Digest - From "oil shock", an anonymous blogger in California
• (OilInvestor) The View from the "Peak" - Coming Oil Shock & Collapse of the Petrodollar
• Counter Currents - Peak Oil
• Eric Snyder's Yahoo! 360 - occasional comments/observations/thoughts on Peak oil
• Peak Oil | Energy | Sustainability

Discussion groups

• Ottawa Gatineau Peak Oil (OGPO) - 43 members-2006-03-5, started in Dec/04; David Delaney's Public Yahoo!Group
• Ottawa Crude Awakening: Peak Oil Awareness Forum
• Toronto Peak Oil - 117 members 2006-03-5, started in Oct/04
• Canadian Energy - .. group is to study all aspects of Canadian energy issues - 111 members, started in 2001
• Worldwide Oil Awareness Message Board - 2833 advocates from 40 "Meetup" groups, worldwide
• Running on Empty - Canada - just 60 members.  Canada is slow getting out of the starting blocks on this issue
• Running on Empty3 - for those just discovering "Peak Oil" and the possible impacts on themselves, their families, civilization and the world, started in 2003.
• Running on Empty2 - 6560 members; started in 2001
• Sustainable Communities - 195 members; started in 2001

Current Initiatives / Studies / Other stuff

• Initiatives at municipal levels: Burnaby, BC, Kinsale, Ireland, Tompkins County Relocalization Project
• The SAIC Report  (Peaking of world oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management; Feb, 2005 - popularly known as the Hirsch report) -- analysis by Science Applications International Corporation, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, which concludes that mitigation measures would need to commence ten years before the peak in oil production.
• Initiatives at national levels: Peak oil resolution in U.S. House of Representatives
• Initiatives at International levels: The Oil Depletion Protocol
• Analysis: Views of international energy agencies
• Winter fuel prices
• The Oil Age Poster
• Genuine Progress Indicators - Measuring Society's well being
• Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL) - Cost savings analysis

Books

• Beyond oil: The view from Hubbert's Peak - Kenneth S. Deffeyes
• Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Matthew R. Simmons
• Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler
• Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg
• The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
• Natural Home Heating by Greg Pahl
• The Coming Economic Collapse by Glen Strathy
• Oilephant Down : Canada at the End of the Age of Cheap Energy by Richard Embleton
• The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietman by Barbara Tuchman
• Pay it Forward (Book) | DVD by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  
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Audio Visual

• Excellent collection of Peak Oil a/v/print materials assembled by the Sydney, Australia Peak Oil Group

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