John Michael Greer: 46 books
Dark Age America
Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
What is the world going to look like when all these changes...
After Progress
Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually matter—after...
Decline and Fall
The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Although he was writing nearly a century ago, Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of Americas global empire is the central feature of todays geopolitical landscape,...
Green Wizardry
Conservation, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, and Other Hands-On Skills From the Appropriate Tech Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Merlin, Gandalf, Voldemort - these well-known sorcerers from popular culture are famed for their amazing spells and spectacular magical powers. In ancient times however, a wizard was actually a freelance intellectual whose main stock in trade was good advice, supported by a thorough education in agriculture,...
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The authentic teachings of the mystery schools offer a profoundly different way of making sense of the universe and our place in it. In Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth, ecologist and Druid initiate John Michael Greer offers an introduction to the core teachings of the mysteries through the...
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Since 2006, author John Michael Greer has been sharing his perspectives on the fate of industrial civilization and more on his weekly blog, The Archdruid Report. His writing, both highly engaging and rooted in a depth of broad scholarship, has earned him thousands of readers who want to understand...
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Author John Michael Greer, host of the blog "The Archdruid Report," a weekly peak oil blog, brings together twelve original tales selected from among his readers. Each story offers glimpses into possible futures where oil scarcity and lower energy availability spell the end of modern industrial society.
The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth
Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A living tradition of nature spirituality rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is the first hands-on manual of traditional British Druid practice that...
The Occult Book
A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Explore the occult from ancient times to the modern day with one of its most respected scholars and practitioners.
Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer delves into...
The Secret of the Temple
Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Over thousands of years, the priests and sages of the ancient world discovered that the design and location of certain structures had beneficial effects on the crops that sustained life. A body of traditional lore evolved, using architecture and ceremonies that made use of these wholly natural but...
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
At last, collected in a single volume, the short stories and narrative fictions that appeared during the eleven year run of 'The Archdruid Report,' author John Michael Greer’s weekly peak oil blog.
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
n response to the coming impact of peak oil John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world - not returning to the past but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.Fusing human ecology...
The Retro Future
Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it’s clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the...
by John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
In this latest installment, of the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, brings us twelve original stories of a world centuries ahead where oil and fossil fuels have become a distant memory. A new era has dawned and for those far future cultures a time of renewal has arrived.