1) Trust no one source to give you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, all the time. That's too much to ask of any one source. Shop around. Get a second, third, and even a fourth opinion. Many of the links below will list others, so let yourself go exploring.
2) Try not to confine your shopping to any one of the 7 megatrends listed below. To paraphrase the now-famous Carville-Clinton dictum ("It's the economy, stupid"), it's the interactions that really make for interesting times.
3) Some of the organizations below offer a free e-mail service to notify interested people about breaking news or updates recently posted on their websites.
There is no better website for anyone who is interested in sorting out the interactions of the big three megatrends -- the end of the human population boom, the end of cheap oil and natural gas, and the end of the habitable climate. Other sites focus on one trend or another, but the information-packed DIEOFF website pulls them all together. This information-packed site is a treasure chest for anyone seeking an integrated view of today, and of tomorrow.
A great source of news stories about all the issues that arise because of human overpopulation. It also assumes that anyone interested in overpopulation will be interested in all the issues that arise because of it. The format is different than dieoff's, but the scope of coverage on both sites makes them well worth the visit.
This site is managed by the authors of the book, Our Stolen Future, which focuses on human loss of capacity for reproduction, thanks to pollution that makes ours an increasingly toxic planet
This classic little booklet, originally published by the US Soil Conservation Service, is a great introduction to human self-endangerment created by our endangering of the living systems that support our population
One expert says that the end of cheap oil will be a psychological shock as well as an economic one. Why? Because the reality has yet to sink in. This article is a good place to start.
Because the end of cheap oil needs explaining by more than one voice, we include this article from New Scientist as a good companion to the one above, from Scientific American.
The title of this online publication, and its coverage of the end of cheap oil, go a long way toward explaining why we include it with other links. What you will find when you go to this one is an essay by longtime oilman Colin Campbell, who will explain why the worldwide gas tank has no choice but to run empty, and soon.
Oil's influence is so pervasive that we will have a hard time understanding how loss of such a simple resource rocks our lives. This excellent overview by Richard Manning is a grand tour of oil's grip, including its power to draw us into war, and its central role in feeding the human population.
A thorough, inclusive resource for anyone interested in global warming and the changes of climate it is already bringing to earth.
This site focuses on the implications of climate change for the Third World.
Satellite images, research summaries, media alerts and newspaper reports are just part of this important site's offerings. Be sure to subscribe to EO's email news service when you visit this site.
This site is managed by the authors of the book, Our Stolen Future, which focuses on human loss of capacity for reproduction, thanks to pollution that makes ours an increasingly toxic planet. Information posted here includes impact on wildlife species as well as humans.
EWG regularly monitors the gamut of toxic materials now jeopardizing health and life. Among its achievements, a ”body burden’ study that was a first in gathering data to demonstrate that many people have many more than one dangerous pollutant in their bodies.
This is one of the more prestigious journals of US foreign policy. Some readers will find some articles too conservative, but few writers in it are afraid to criticize the policies of any Congress or Administration.
Sometimes described as ”the other’ journal of foreign affairs, Foreign Policy makes a great shelf mate to Foreign Affairs.
FPIF is a think-tank without walls, and committed to a citizen-based effort to make the United States a more responsible citizen of the world. Articles that appear here first are often cited and re-published around the planet.
World Press Review is only circulated in the United States, but it publishes no articles originating in the United States. Instead, it is American readers' digest to news and views from all around the world. Because the world watches the United States very closely, Americans can often see their country as others see it.
Based at American University in Washington, DC, TraCCC's website includes an extensive online library on the varied organized crime groups around the world.
Based at Canada's York University, the Nathanson Centre is another great source of publications about the varied organized crime groups around the world.
This is a report compiled as a cooperative effort by the various intelligence agencies of the United States.
Transparency International is the leading global non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption. Its mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.
This site monitors the ”rise of the religious right in the Republican Party,’ and specific topics such as the religious right's views on women, the environment, and economics.
Interfaith Alliance
http://www.interfaithalliance.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=8dJIIWMCE&b=258308
The Interfaith Alliance has been a leading mainstream voice countering the right-wing hijacking of Christianity, but it and its website cover more turf than that.
This site is another one not limited to coverage of any one religion. It is dedicated to journalism's coverage of religious issues, and on a worldwide basis.