Quite a few of the books which I have read during the last year are about green capitalism or as the call it "natural capitalism." A lot of the ideas for natural capitalism stem from the Rocky Mountain Institute http://www.rmi.org/ . One of the most substantive works is Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Amory Lovins and Paul Hawkens. It talks about ways to integrate environmental technologies like lean manufacturing, recycling, energy efficiency, and refurbishing items with capitalism to make more profitable cleaner companies. Amory Lovins also talks about how to switch away from an oil based economy. There is an excellent ebook on this subject at http://www.oilendgame.com/ by Lovins. I highly recommend his work.
Another book which came out of a website is Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, Alex Steffens, Editor. This is a collection of various technologies and ideas on how to make the world a better place. Once again this book is focused on clean technology, and new ideas for a greener form of capitalism. The book comes from the website http://www.worldchanging.com/ . This web site is very much future oriented. It talks quite a bit about energy issues, population issues, housing, and clean technology. It is well worth looking at.
Big And Green by David Gissen, Ed., is a guide to green buildings which are energy efficient, often use recycled material, are designed to be aesthetically pleasing, include recycling technologies, and often build renewable energy into them. There are quite a few architectural diagrams and pictures throughout the books. Green buildings are a very interesting issue. Take some time if you can to look at http://www.usgbc.org/.
I see a positive future where we won't need oil coming up. I don't see a negative future without oil. Life will be cleaner, healthier, and more long lived in the future. People need to take some time to figure out a better vision of what is coming next. Read about it and think about how you can make the world a better place to live.
On that note, I posted links to blog at the newsgroups Sci Fi & Fantasy Writing, Online Books and Ebooks, rec.arts.books.marketplace, alt.books.reviews, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books, and alt. books.
If you can think of any place where I can post a link to my site please let me know with comments. I would really appreciate it. This can be a message board, web site, blog, or group.
I just started adding keywords to each of my blog posts. They are pretty generic for the most part. You can see them at the bottom of the posts. Hopefully, this will generate some more interest in the site. Someone searched for "un lun dun" to find this site which is pretty surprising.
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