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Recommended Websites
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Energy Websites
- The Oil Drum
- Premier peak oil site featuring an ongoing, community led discussion on depletion.
- Life After the Oil Crash
- One of the most comprehensive and compelling Peak Oil sites anywhere. A must read.
- Peak Oil Primer @ energybulletin.net
- An excellent brief overview of Peak Oil
- Culture Change
- Alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence with a realistic analysis of the so-called techno-fixes.
- Postcarbon Institute
- Exploring life with less hydrocarbon energy
- Die Off
- Jay Hanson's science, energy and peak oil site - no longer updated
- War Socialism
- Jay Hanson's new site about the trajectory of humanity: why politics, money and society prevent us from “solving peak oil” without war or a command economy
- From the Wilderness
- Mike Ruppert's Peak Oil information site - no longer updated
Finance & Peak Oil Investment Strategies
- Money as Debt
- It all starts with an understanding of what we’re talking about. This 47-minute animated movie can be viewed online and is a great introduction to money: something we use everyday without understanding at all!
- Financial Sense
- Jim Puplava’s investment site. Free weekly mp3/podcast web show with news & analysis. Jim talks peak oil almost every week & has been since about 2002.
- Krassimir Petrov
- One of our favorite contributors to financial sense, Krassimir Petrov does reality-based monetary education at the American University in Bulgaria. He shares articles and videos at this location.
- Jesse’s Café Américain
- Tired of the major financial media giving us glib one-liners instead of a real understanding of our financial realities? Jesse will give you a different analysis of what is going on in our banking and economic systems.
Gardening Demonstration & Learning Sites
- Path to Freedom
- An urban permaculture, homestead model established 2001 in Pasadena, CA with the objective to live as harmoniously and sustainably as possible in the midst of the city.
- Plants For A Future
- A huge online encyclopedia of many useful plants, with an emphasis on permaculture.
- Slugs and Salal
- All about gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Current, comprehensive information about gardening in Washington state, British Columbia and Oregon is at your fingertips when you need it.
Local & Regional Organizations
- Portland Peak Oil
- Portland, Oregon's Peak Oil group
- Sustainable Ballard
- Sustainable Ballard is a non-profit organization of inventive, interesting neighbors. We believe that community self-reliance and sustainability is good foreign policy implemented locally.
- Seattle Permaculture Guild
- A gathering point for folks in Seattle wanting to practice, play with, and learn more about Permaculture.
- Seattle Tilth
- Seattle Tilth inspires and educates people to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community.
- RavenCroft Garden
- A smallscale, organic sustainable garden/habitat in Monroe, WA
- Shoreline Solar Project
- Shoreline, Washington's renewable energy action group
