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Permaculture Food Production Yields
David Blume at www.permaculture.com reported achieving yields of “8 times what the USDA claims are possible per square foot” in this response to a writer questioning the ability of permaculture to replace industrial ag.
Wondering if you’ve got enough land to feed your family?
On the subsistence agriculture level, we permies regularly have designed productions systems around [...]
Thinking About Your Food Supply
In North America, most people I observe live by a very dangerous assumption. It’s not surprising since the generation that we call the Baby Boomers are currently our private and public leaders. And I doubt any other generation in the history of humanity has ever had the luxury of this assumption.
By the title of this [...]
Video - Who Am I? in a Post-Petroleum World
Some interesting ideas for reframing collapse.
Steam Power for Self Sufficiency?
http://www.tinypower.com/store2.php?crn=54&rn=258&action=show_detail
Interesting little steam engine for home use. It’s even kinda cute.
Video - Biodiesel : Do Not Drink
If you’re interested in biodiesel these kids put together a short clip you might find helpful.
July 11, 2007
WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse
July 09, 2007
IEA sees oil supply crunch looming
No kidding.
Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside
Wonder what life could look like when we’ve got one fourth the oil to use (projected level in 2030, see quote below) that we have today. Matt over at http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ found this one. Closer to that than what we’ve got now I’d guess.
Matt Simmons, founder of Houston-based Simmons and Company Inter-national, criticised the [...]
Got your ELP plan squared away?
(More about ELP at the end of this post.)
You’re all ready. Extra food, water, a garden. The list can be endless for being prepared for the big one.
Have you applied the Wealth Test? Part of your planning should certainly include this basic test for soundness.
If you had to leave your fort/bomb shelter/farm [...]
Hand Tools
Lately, I’ve been looking into hand tools (the kind without batteries or cords sticking out the handle.) My thinking is that a small scooter and an appropriately stocked toolbox could make for a nice Post Peak Oil business.
Now, I know some of you are really deep into this kind of thing. So I [...]
Found: Peak Oil, Total Collapse, and the Road to the Olduvai
Found: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlasBabylon/message/32238
Research credit to Matt Savinar at http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Peak Oil, Total Collapse, and the Road to the Olduvai
A Commentary
by
Perry Arnett
18 April 2007
(May be freely transmitted with proper attribution)
1) most members of Western Industrial Civilization are about to enter a ‘Bottleneck’ of historical magnitude and significance;
2) a confluence of various events is acting to cause the [...]