Start reading up on Transition Towns, Peak Oil, Sustainability, and renewable energy!

The Official website for Transition Initiatives

http://www.transitiontowns.org/

Transition Initiatives throughout the US

http://transitionus.org/

Sharon Astyk

Depletion and Abundance, One woman’s solutions to finding abundance for your family while coming to terms with peak oil, climate change and hard times

http://sharonastyk.com/

Chris Martensen, Crash course

Essential baseline understanding of the economy. Clear language and graphics help make complex issues easy to understand. Twenty chapters you can watch all at once or a few at a time. Chapter length ranges between three and twenty minutes.

http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse

Richard Heinberg,

Author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout, Richard Heinberg is widely regarded as one of the world’s most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels.

http://richardheinberg.com/

James Howard Kunstler

The Long Emergency, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century."

(Kunstler is not for those who are easily offended)

http://www.kunstler.com

Rob Hopkins and many others present easy to digest videos on Transition Initiatives on YouTube