It’s almost here!  A guide for everyone interested in bike commuting.  You can visit the Bike To Work Web Site to get more information or to download the Bike To Work Podcast.

Tim Flannery presents a detailed scientific account of the effects of human activities on our entire ecosystem.  This book is a must-read for understanding the science and hard data behind the science of climate change.  www.theweathermakers.ca/

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - In this long look at history, Jared Diamond warns us of the mistakes past societies and civilizations made when they failed to heed warnings that they were depleting their natural resources and destroying their environment.  Told through short stories involving multiple and diverse societies that ultimately collapsed, Diamond presents through history what could become reality for us if we don’t change our approach to living on Earth.

Winning the Oil Endgame - This amazing independent synthesis looks at our current oil dilemma from an economic perspective.  It examines the problems we have created for ourselves by depending heavily on and profitting off of  oil, as well as the myriad of solutions that exist at our very fingertips.  The thing I really like about this book is that the authors examine the less obvious costs associated with oil consumption, such as job loss, depletion, military conflicts, and the compromised stability of markets in other countries.