The End of Suburbia

2004 Canadian film

5 May 2004 (2004-05-05)

Running time

78 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications for the suburban lifestyle, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene.

Description

The film is hosted by Canadian broadcaster Barrie Zwicker and features discussions with James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews.

In 2007, Greene released a sequel called Escape from Suburbia.

Cast

Matthew Simmons, as himself
Richard Heinberg, as himself
Michael Ruppert, as himself
James Howard Kunstler, as himself
Steve Andrews, as himself
Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, as himself
Peter Calthorpe, as himself
Colin Campbell, as speaker
Dick Cheney, as himself (archive footage)
Julian Darley, as himself
Kenneth S. Deffeyes, as himself
Michael Klare, as himself
Barrie Zwicker, as host

External links

Official website
It's the End of the World as We Know It - film review by the Baltimore Chronicle
"Running on Empty - The End of Suburbia and the future slums of Irvine" (film review)
Review Summary - The NY Times
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream at IMDb
The End of Suburbia // The chutry experiment, May 2006
Post Carbon Institute
Escape From Suburbia (2007)
Global Oil Watch - Extensive peak oil library
Are We Drunk On Oil?