As the Price of Oil Creeps Up...

...a new edition of one of my classic peak oil books seems timely, and with the help of Founders House, it's now available for preorder. 

I originally wrote The Ecotechnic Future in 2007, as oil prices worldwide moved toward their disastrous 2008-2009 spike and crash.  It was my first attempt to look past the immediate issues of petroleum depletion and economic dysfunction toward the broader landscape of historical change in which the crises of our time take place. I approached the rise and fall of industrial civilization as an ecological process, and showed that it followed the same dynamics as other ecosystems in transition; I traced out the future trajectory and followed it out to the ecotechnic societies of the far future; and I talked about ways that people here and now can help lay the foundation for a better future. 

One of the things that fascinated me on rereading the manuscript is that it needed very little revision. Some things have changed since 2007, to be sure, and some guesses I'd made about where the crisis of industrial society would lead us turned out to be wrong, but on the whole The Ecotechnic Future stands up remarkably well. 

It will be released on June 30 of this year. Copies can be preordered here. 

(One detail worth mentioning -- this edition is only available in print form, as the original publisher is keeping the older ebook edition in print. The new edition was not based on their version (which had some edits I don't like much) but from my original manuscript. Book contracts being what they are, however, the ebook rights remain theirs until they let their version go out of print.)