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Week of May 17, 2010 – The FAU Summer Sessions begin!

In the News: British Petroleum (BP) reports that they are in the early stages of containing the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, but this comes almost four weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig, which was leased by BP, exploded and killed eleven crew members. Government officials have said that over 200,000* gallons of oil were leaking into the Gulf each day, further destroying marine life, the shrimping industry, and tourism in that region.

*There have been other reports estimating the flow to be between 1 and 12 million gallons per day.

The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup
By Merv Fingas. Lewis Publishers, 2001
Call Number: TD427 .P4 F55 2001

Blind Spot (DVD)
Directed by Adolfo Doring. Media Education Foundation, 2009
Call Number: HD9560.5 .B55 2009 (Boca Raton Media Center)
“This is a documentary that investigates the causes behind the current crisis we find ourselves in. It establishes the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the effect it has had on our environment.”

Blood and Oil (DVD)
Directed by Jeremy Earp. Media Education Foundation, 2008
Call Number: HD9566 .B55 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Color of Oil: The History, the Money and the Politics of the World’s Biggest Business
By Michael Economides and Ronald Oligney. Round Oak Pub. Co., 2000
Call Number: HD9560.5 .E24 2000

Dispatches. 01 (DVD)
Big Noise Films, 2008
Call Number: D422 .D5722 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)
11 Minute Segment: It’s The Oil Stupid: Meeting with President Hugo Chavez in a look at Latin America’s Oil Superpower and the “New Latin America.”

The Economics of a Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
By Bruce M. Owen et al. Quorum Books, 1995
Call Number: HC107 .A47 W323 1995

Effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on River Otters: Injury and Recovery of a Sentinel Species
By R. Terry Bowyer et al. Wildlife Society, 2003
Call Number: QL1 .W54 no. 153

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (DVD)
Directed by Gregory Greene. Electric Wallpaper Co., 2004
Call Number: HT352 .U6 E54 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)
“Through interviews with scientists and policy makers this documentary explores the premise that American suburbs, built on the easy availability of fossil fuels, may become untenable.”

Energy War (DVD)
Directed by Rudi Boon et al. First Run/Icarus Films, 2007
Call Number: HD9502 .A2 E59 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez: The Devastating Impact of the Alaska Oil Spill
By Art Davidson. Sierra Club Books, 1990
Call Number: TD427 .P4 D39 1990

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
By Terry Tamminen. Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006
Call Number: HD9502 .A2 T34 2006 (At Jupiter)

Long-Term Ecological Change in the Northern Gulf of Alaska
Edited by Robert B. Spies. Elsevier, 2007
Call Number : QH95.35 .L66 2007

Oil: An Overview of the Petroleum Industry
By Robert Grace. Gulf Pub., 2007
Call Number: HD9560.5 .G615 2007

Oil: Anatomy of an Industry
By Matthew Yeomans. New Press, 2004
Call Number: HD9560.5 .Y46 2004 (At Jupiter)

The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself—and Profit—from the Coming Energy Crisis
By Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb. Warner Business Books, 2004
Call Number: HD9560.5 .L277 2004 (At Jupiter)

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
By Lisa Margonelli. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2007
Call Number: HD9560.5 .M3185 2007

Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths
By Steven M. Gorelick. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Call Number: HD9560.5 .G594 2010

Oil Spill Response: A Global Perspective
Edited by W.F. Davidson et al. Springer, 2008
Call Number: TD427 .P4 N383 2005

Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound
By John Keeple. Eastern Washington University Press, 1999
Call Number: TD427 .P4 K38 1999

Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management
By Robert L. Hirsch et al. Novinka Books, 2007
Call Number: HD9560.5 .P364 2007

Pipelines: Flowing Oil and Crude Politics
By Rafael Kandiyoti. I.B. Tauris, 2008
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Running Out: How Global Shortages Change the Economic Paradigm
By Pablo Rafael Gonzalez. Algora, 2006
Call Number: Available online by NetLibrary