ESL Lesson 1
Oil in Our Every Day Life
ESL Lesson 2
The History of Mining
ESL Lesson 3
Economic growth
ESL Lesson 4
Delivery Systems
ESL Lesson 5
Cities and Population Movement
ESL Lesson 6
Recycling
ESL Lesson 7
Rubber
ESL Lesson 8
Farming
Links, Movies, Books
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http://www.peakoil.ie/newsletter/en/htm/Newsletter74.htm (Information about all regions of the world)
http://www.peakoil.net/ (Association for the Study of Peak Oil, ASPO)
http://www.energybulletin.net (Energy Bulletin Peak Oil News)
http://www.theoildrum.com (Discussions about Energy and Our Future (Blog and discussion board)
http://www.peakoil.com (Peak Oil News, Analysis, and Mitigation Alternatives)
http://www.graphoilogy.blogspot.com (Many graphs of countries production)
http://www.globaloilwatch.com (Global Oil Watch - Extensive Peak Oil Library)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil (All oil, alternatives and energy related topics)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html (Energy Information Agency, EIA)
http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sai/encycofenergy/top.htm#2 (Encyclopedia of Energy)
http://www.postcarbon.org (Post Carbon Institute)
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com (Global Public Media)
http://www.peakoilinthenews.com (Daily news roundup of Peak Oil news from around the world)
http://www.peakoiloptimist.blogspot.com (Peak Oil Optimist)
http://www.crisisenergetica.org (Crisis Energética (Spanish language)
http://www.willyoujoinus.com (Will You Join Us (Chevron Corporation))
http://www.dieoff.org (The End of Fossil Fuel)
http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk (Wolf at the Door Beginner's Guide to Peak Oil)
http://www.odac-info.org (Oil Depletion Analysis Centre in the United Kingdom)
http://www.thepowerswitch.com (Power Switch in the United Kingdom)
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net (Life After the Oil Crash)
http://www.drydipstick.com (Oil related issues about peak oil)
http://www.freeenergynews.com (Oil news from around the world)
http://www.crudeawakening.org (Round up of news, gasoline and oil prices hourly)
http://www.oilawareness-sf.org (List of peak oil groups worldwide that meet regularly)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Oil.htm (Oil company related stories in Iraq)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050705231841.htm (Bio-fuel information)
http://www.ethanolproducer.com (Ethanol related topics)
http://www.bluesunbiodiesel.com/biofuel_research.php (Agricultural research on Bio-fuel crops)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel (Crops that can be used for ethanol or bio-diesel; list)
http://www.floraecopower.com/Eng/BioDiesel/Crops.asp (Crop details for bio-fuels)
Movies
The End of Suburbia: The Electric Wallpaper Co.- Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. http://www.endofsuburbia.com/, 2004, 78-minute documentary film. 52-minute version viewable at YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Four Corners program on Peak Oil, 2006 (viewable online) Excellent documentary with interviews, explanations and footage in easy to understand English. ABC Australia - 4 Corners - Global Supply & Demand Theory-Analysis (ref: ASPO .au, ABARE, IEA & US DOE)
Oil, Smoke, and Mirrors - An independent 50 minute documentary on peak oil. http://www.oilsmokeandmirrors.com
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil DVD- Community Service, Inc. (2006).
PEAK OIL-Imposed by Nature,DVD - 2005 Tropos Dokumentar
A Crude Awakening, Lava Productions AG
The Epic of Black Gold - Part4/4 - The Oil Depletion, Documentary 52':
Peak Oil - a short film by Larry Larstead Now streaming on YouTube, 4 min. film, 2006 (viewable online)
Richard Heinberg at the Vancouver Planetarium, 2003 (viewable online) Global Public Media
The Oil Factor (2005) Directed by Audrey Brohy and Gerard Ungerman. Some of the connections that regularly get left out of most of the mainstream media. The Oil Factor is also available at Google video.
Books
Colin J. Campbell, (Head, Association for Peak Oil) ASPO
Campbell, Colin J. (2004). The Essence of Oil & Gas Depletion. Multi-Science Publishing. ISBN 0-906522-19-6.
Campbell, Colin J. (2004).The Coming Oil Crisis. MultiScience Publishing. ISBN 0-906522-11-0.
Campbell, Colin J. (2005). Oil Crisis. Multi-Science Publishing. ISBN 0-906522-39-0.
Kenneth S. Deffeyes, (petroleum geologist)
Deffeyes, Kenneth S. (2002). Hubbert's Peak:The Impending World Oil Shortage. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09086-6.
Deffeyes, Kenneth S. (2005). Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak. Hill and Wang. ISBN 0-8090-2956-1.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat. Penguin Publishing ISBN 0-141022-72-8
Goodstein, David (2005). Out of Gas: The End of the Age Of Oil. W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-05857-3.
G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jeckyll Island ISBN: 0912986212 3rd Edition 1998
Richard Heinberg, (writer on ecology)
Heinberg, Richard (2003). The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies. New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-482-7.
Heinberg, Richard (2004). Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-510-6. (The gloom and doom scenario)
Huber, Peter (2005). The Bottomless Well. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03116-1. (There will be no oil shortage; the free market will provide.)
Kleveman, Lutz C. (2004). The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-906-5.
Kunstler, James H. (2005). The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-888-3.
Leggett, Jeremy (2005). The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Financial Catastrophe. Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6527-5. (Discusses both peak oil and climate change)
Lovins, Amory et al (2005). Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security. Rocky Mountain Institute. ISBN 1-881071-10-3. (The "small is beautiful" view)
Pfeiffer, Dale Allen (2004). The End of the Oil Age. Lulu Press. ISBN 1-4116-0629-9.
Rifkin, Jeremy (2002). The Hydrogen Economy: After Oil, Clean Energy From a Fuel-Cell-Driven Global Hydrogen Web. Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-7456-3042-1. (Politically influential work; vague on where the hydrogen comes from)
Ruppert, Michael C. Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. New Society Publishers ISBN 0865715408
Simmons, Matthew R. (2005). Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. ISBN 0-471-73876-X.
Shah, Sonia (2004). Crude, The Story of Oil. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-625-7.
Simon, Julian L. (1998). The Ultimate Resource. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00381-5. (The "ultimate resource" is innovation, not oil)
Smil, Vaclav (2005). Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19492-9.
Tertzakian, Peter (2006). A Thousand Barrels a Second. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-146874-9.
Yeomans, Matthew (2004). Oil, Anatomy of an Industry. ISBN 1-56584-885-3.