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The natural world is under attack. Our global economy & corporate capitalist system is destroying the planetary eco system at a pace that few of us can comprehend. Old growth forests are all but gone. The oceans are dying, choked with human-made poisons a
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preparedness tips
Another website suggesting tips for preparedness. If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1Tim 5...
exponential money in a finite world (part 1)
by Chris Martenson In parallel with exponential population growth, our monetary system is also exhibiting exponential behavior. Consider this evidence: 1) Money supply growth (see chart above). I...
practical security
More from Sharon Astyk. Ok, I’m going to run through a range of security options, covering both personal and community, and talk a little about the pros and cons of each. I’ve divided them into f...
a call to action for local businesses
Reading throuth the Post Carbon Institute’s call to action for individuals, it feels like this really isnt enough. Ok, some people will start all of this, and some will be very effective at crea...
the american way of life is unsustainable
Chris Clugston on energy bulletin. Message to mainstream America: our American way of life—300+ million people enjoying historically unprecedented living standards—has been enabled by our increasi...
micro generation and micro farming: combating high energy prices, high food prices, and tyranny
Sound advice from George Washingtons blog. Aimed at Americans, but relevant to people everywhere. With recent breakthroughs, individuals can now generate enough energy to get off the grid and power th...
twenty nine reasons people need to pull their heads out of the sand
By Wanda Marie Woodward, on Countercurrents.org I read an article recently by a gentleman who has proposed a new diagnostic label for people who are apathetic, indifferent, or otherwise not predispose...
common sense and survival
William Kotke’s article on Carolyn Baker’s Truth to Power website could have been written by us. Since Babylon, the type of human culture that we live in has featured an emperor or surroga...
everything you need to know, in order
Another fabulous post from Sharon Astyk. Good advice. 1. How not to panic. 2. How to learn things - and how to teach them. 3. How to get along with everyone else. 4. How to deal with an immediate med...
is china the endgame?
Thought provoking article on from the wilderness. We quote the ending comment: THE FAILURE OF COMPETITION In the competition for declining oil reserves, ultimately everyone will lose. In the process o...
what I store that isn’t food
More to think about from Sharon Astyk. 1. Shoes - I have a thing about shoes. You see, I have crappy eyesight, and there is zippo chance I will ever shoot a deer for moccasins. I’ve made felted bo...
keeping fed
Another excerpt from Dmitry Orlov’s book. In addition to small-scale farming, forests in Russia have always been used as an important additional source of food. Russians recognize and eat just a...
food storage 102 - 2 weeks is not enough
more sound advice from Sharon Astyk. Last time I ran the food storage class, I started off with a Food Storage 101 post that discussed the bare minimum for food storage - the 2 weeks recommended by bo...
Milton Freidman and the ninth circle….
Jayson R Jones on Cyrano’s Journal: We have allowed nearly everything to be privatized: water, power, transportation, energy. There is very little of any value left in public hands, and what is ...
peak oil will absolutely reverse globalization
Nicolas van der Leek’s take on what to expect in the coming months and years. Say Goodbye The first casualty of high oil prices are vast swathes of the poor, especially the rural poor. They may ...
let the banks go under, sell 10 million houses for $1 each
So says Charles Hugh Smith on oftwominds.com In fact the dissolution of the insolvent parts of the U.S. banking sector–yes, the investment banks, the money-center banks, the regional banks, and ...
a critique of reinventing collapse
by Charles Hugh Smith, oftwominds.com, critiquing Dmitri Orlov’s book, and discussing differences between USSR collapse and US collapse. The cultural and structural differences between the USSR ...
UK energy - a state of emergency
Euan Mearns at Oil Drum: Europe. From riches to rags The bar chart up top indicates the cost of importing oil and gas to the UK ballooning to about $200 billion (£100 billion) per annum by 2013 - ju...
You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food.
The empire of cheap food is crumbling You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famin...
the food, climate, and energy crisis: from panic to organic
CommonDreams article by Ronnie Cummins. Fortunately, there are hopeful signs that we can move beyond crisis to positive solutions. Connecting the dots in our food-climate-energy crisis, millions of gr...
the peak oil crisis: we are starting to dim
Tom Whipple points out in this article that very little has been talked about electricity, and how our supplies rely on oil. Although it has received scant coverage in the U.S. media, in many parts of...
what have you done today towards food and energy independence?
Sharon Astyk has inspired many people to think about and work towards food and energy independence. Most of us have so much to learn, having been raised from supermarkets and the global economy. Sharo...
making sense of collapse: funeral procession or party time?
Carolyn Baker yet again cuts to the chase in this article. Civilization and all of its discontents has been gestated and birthed in ego as if domination and control of the earth, its inhabitants, and ...
food crisis: Britain just nine meals from anarchy
Well no. Anarchy is actually a political system without central government, where people take more personal responsibility and accountability for each other and their actions. In this article, origina...
david strahan (last oil shock author) interviewed on BBC newsnight
We need to slow down, re-evaluate what is important in our lives, stop wasting resources and releasing carbon for purposes that don’t improve our lives… the more we do to prepare for a pea...
the triple threat: our food, water and climate challenges
Why the recent food and water shortages are making the climate crisis even worse. Alternet article by Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Agricultural practices geared toward...
beyond civilized and primitive
C-Realm podcast: Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse, details the Collapse Party Platform: a list of initiatives that acknowledge the danger of collapse and, if implemented, would make near-f...
rapid unravelling and the demise of adolescent america
More sound words from Carloyn Baker. I believe that the collapse of civilization, now accelerating at dizzying speed, is indeed a collective, planetary initiation of the human species. It involves all...
public health and welfare
An excerpt from Sharon Astyk’s book, Depletion and Abundance: If we were to ask “Where do we need energy the most?” we would get a very different answer. Perhaps the most bang for our fossil...
eco-anger: a worldview under threat
An Eye-Opening Personal Experience on Eco-Anxiety. Stage One: Denial With recent documentaries, widespread news reports, and nearly unanimous scientific consensus on the challenges arising from enviro...