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Below is a list of books, articles, websites and blogs related to: 
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​Capitalism & Civilization Collapse, Green Resistance, Energy, and ​Building A Sustainable Future.​
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Related to Industrial Capitalism & Civilization Collapse

  • Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence. by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
  • The End of Growth. by Richard Heinberg.
  • The Party’s Over. by Richard Heinberg.
  • Brace for Impact: Surviving the Crash of the Industrial Age. by Thomas A Lewis.​​
  • The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age. by John Michael Greer.
  • The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, & the Renewal of Civilization. by Thomas Homer-Dixon.
  • The Long Emergency. by James Howard Kunstler.
  • Living in the Long Emergency. by James Howard Kunstler.
  • Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. By William C. Catton, Jr.
  • The Collapse of Complex Societies. by Joseph A. Tainter.
  • The Five Stages of Collapse. by Dmitry Orlov.
  • The Crash Course. by Chris Martenson
  • Collapse. by Jared Diamond
  • Cannibals & Kings. by Marvin Harris.
  • A Users Guide to the Crisis of Civilization. by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
  • The Great Disruption. by Paul Gilding 
  • Future Scenarios: How Communities Adapt to Peak Oil & Climate Change. by David Holmgren. 
  • Collapse 2020. by Kirkpatrick Sale 
  • Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. by Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco. 
  • Wages of Rebellion. by Chris Hedges. 
  • The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? by Joel Kovel.
  • The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement. by Derek Wall.
  • Ecofeminism. by Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva.
  • "Democratic Socialism: The Impossible Dream?” Article by Craig Collins.
  • The Coming Collapse - Article by Chris Hedges.​

Related to Energy

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  • Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future.  by Steve Hallett & John Wright
  • Peak Everything, by Richard Heinberg.
  • Energy Slaves: Oil & the New Servitude. by Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. by Michael Klare. 
  • The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources. by Michael Klare.
  • There's No Tomorrow Video -  (limits to growth & the future) 
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Related to Building a Sustainable Future

  • The Future Is Rural: Food System Adaptation to the Great Simplification by Jason Bradford (The Post Carbon Institute, 2019). 
  • Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe. Edited by Sophie Bloeman & Thomas de Groot. (2019). 
  • The Transition Network
  • Transition Towns (US) ​
  • The Transition Handbook, by Rob Hopkins.
  • The Simpler Way: Collected Writings of Ted Trainer. (2020) by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford.
  • Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community. by Karen Litfin.
  • The Community Resilience Reader. Daniel Lerch, ed.
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Related to Green Resistance

  • This Changes Everything. by Naomi Klein.
  •  "Overlooking the Obvious with Naomi Klein” Article by Craig Collins. 
  • No Is Not Enough. by Naomi Klein.
  • Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet. Jensen & Keith, eds.
  • Deep Green Resistance. McBay, Keith, & Jensen, eds.
  • Demand the Impossible. Bill Ayres.
  • Manifesto for a New World Order. George Monbiot.​
  • Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. Jeremy Brecher.
  • Via campesina (International Peasants Movement) 
  • Indigenous Environmental Network
  • Afrika Global Network
  • Lucha Indigena
  • The Leap (Canada)
  • The Leap Manifesto
  • Green Left (Australia)
  • Green Party of the US
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Websites & Blogs
​that Tell It Like It is

  • The Daily Impact. Thomas A. Lewis.
  • The Apocalypsi Library at the End of the World 
  • Rice Farmer: Chronicling the Decline of Industrial Civilization
  • From the Wilderness: Peak Oil Blog
  • Center for Global Research on Globalization
  • Resilience
  • The Post Carbon Institute
  • Our Finite World
  • International Forum on Globalization
  • Organizing Upgrade
  • CounterPunch
  • The Simplicity Collective
  • A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016) - Free Full Documentary
  • Climate and Capitalism
  • Capitalism Nature Socialism
  • Green Anarchism
  • Center for Biological Diversity
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Other Online Bibliographies on Social Collapse & Sustainability

Bibliography of Literature Relevant to Our Future Sustainability

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Building a Green Transition

Building a Green transition away from a perilous dead end depends on our ability to anticipate the dangers that lie ahead and seize every opportunity to avoid and resist them.
 ​We encourage visitors to this website to read the articles we’ve posted, share them with others, alert us to other useful sources on catabolic capitalism and green resistance, and share their thoughts with us.
​Thank you.  
Craig Collins Ph.D.  Visit me on LinkedIn 
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