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Helping America Take Action to Solve the Oil Crisis

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- Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from New Orleans.

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Below is a small sampling of books and articles on oil, the environment and ways we can transition to a green economy. We would like to expand this list so please email us with your suggestions.
Books:
  • Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, Terry Tamminen
  • Tomorrow’s Energy – Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet, Peter Hoffman
  • Out of Gas, David Goodstein
  • The Hydrogen Economy, Jeremy Rifkin
  • Twenty Hydrogen Myths, Amory B. Lovins
  • Taken for a Ride, Jack Doyle
  • When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, Devra Lee Davis
  • Life in the Slow Lane, Richard Byrne
  • Sacred Balance, David Suzuki
  • Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change,  Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, Heather Boyer
  • The Green Building Revolution, Jerry Yudelson
  • Apollo’s Fire, Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy, Jay Inslee
  • Science Magazine’s State of the Planet 2008-2009

Papers and Articles:

  • Evidence of a conspiracy to hinder introduction of electric vehicles, Preston, Gate and Ellis,  Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
  • Crude Awakenings: Could an Exxon Valdez Spill Happen in Southern California, Environment Now Foundation
  • Crude Reckoning: The Impact of Petroleum on California's Public Health and Environment
  • The Hidden Cost of Oil, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • The Real Price of Gasoline, International Center for Technological Assessment
  • Exxon Oil Spill’s Cleanup Crews Share Years of Illness, Los Angeles Times