Exponential Growth (VIDEO http://greatchange.org/ov-chay,exponential_function.wmv )
Overshoot (http://greatchange.org/catton,overshoot_graphs.html)
Carrying Capacity (http://greatchange.org/ophuls,ecological_scarcity.html)
Carrying Capacity (http://greatchange.org/wackernagel&rees,carrying_capacity.html)
Laissez-faire (http://greatchange.org/ophuls,market_economy.html)
Design (http://greatchange.org/ophuls,planning_versus_design.html)
Systems Principles, Emergy, and Empower (http://greatchange.org/odum,systems_principles_descent.html)
Disjointed Incrementalism (http://greatchange.org/ophuls,disjointed_incrementalism.html)
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Imminence and Consequences of Peak Oil
Peak Oil Primer (http://greatchange.org/EnergyBulletin,what_is_peak_oil.html) Short Explanantion of what "Peak Oil" means.
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management (.pdf) (http://greatchange.org/ov-hirsch,report.pdf) High level government preoccupation with the consequences of peak oil
Global Peak Now, (VIDEO: http://greatchange.org/ov-simmons,peak_oil_now.wmv) Simmons
07-283 Crude Oil: Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production(.pdf) (http://greatchange.org/ov-GAO-report_on_peak_oil.pdf) A Government Accounting Office report recognizing the necessity to be in motion well before the Peaking of Oil Production.
Retention of Excess Profits
One essential complement is ecological tax reform... (http://greatchange.org/sc-ecotaxation.html) Our Ecological Footprint, pg.142-7
The Mineral Economy: How Prices and Costs Can Falsely Signal Decreasing Scarcity (http://greatchange.org/ov-reynolds.html) Reynolds (" It is conceivable that after one hundred years of price decline and production increase, that a resource can have a ten or one hundred fold price increase within a year or two, with a corresponding decline in production.")
Emerging Ecological Paradigm
The Need to Reintegrate the Natural Sciences with Economics (http://greatchange.org/hall,natural_sciences_with_economics.html) Hall, Charles et. al; "Neoclassical Economics, the dominant form of economics today, has at least three fundamental flaws from the perspective of the natural sciences, but it is possible to develop a different, biophysical basis for economics that can serve as a supplement to, or a replacement for, neoclassical economics."
Guidelines for Orderly Descent (http://greatchange.org/bb-moredinoblood-knockout_blow.html) Odum & Odum; "Continuing the ethic to maximize profit and consumption can generate overpopulation, inflation, shortages, debt, bankruptcy, starvation, riot, local war, frustration, crime, loss of organization, loss of knowledge and libraries, and abandonment of ideals."
Fantasy Water in the Southwest
West's 2 Major reservoirs imperiled, scientists warn Arizona Daily Star Staff and Wire Reports
Colorado River to Drop to 500-Year Low as World Warms Bloomberg.com