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I take it from the "economy/capitalism/consumerism...must die" comment that you are a Pol Pot anarchist that believes the human race should all revert back to an agrarian society?

I take great o ...

So Go5star, its not really a new way of extracting the oil shale itself, but rather a creative and environmentally friendly way of using surplus energy that normally wouldnt be utalized during coal ga ...

Another idea which could possibly work- in order to gain new skills, is to go 'WWOOFING' - willing worker on organic farms.
e.g. see

Thanks CeeCee! I've emailed this URL to my husband. LOL. I'm ...

When I first heard about peak oil, I vividly remembered that dream- the tyre signifying oil and the automobile etc, and the cottage symbolising the western dream world, and the innocence within it. ...

Thanks Backstop. That is not a bad suggestion. While I would like to do that, we are facing various issues right now which anchor us in the suburbs. Is there anything we can do here and now where we a ...

So, this thread got hijacked by Peter Jackson talk. Interesting but not really feasible for us. We are in Australia.

Can anyone else offer any further advice for a young family of four renting in t ...

Chocky, read the website of Ted Trainer (UNSW) "The Simpler Way":

http://socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/02-The-Simpler-Way.html

Clearly a community orientated solution cannot come from governme ...

This is going to be a long post I think.

DH and I have been aware of PO since April roughly. Since then we and the two rugrats spent 3 months overseas and so we haven't had much time to prepare. I ...

But even tho they are open to the ideas, they continue along their lifestyle with business as usual. No change whatsoever. Even with the high gas prices, there is no effort to "rethink" our strategy ...

I have worked on the edges of the medical field for 27 years (as a medical editor) and know how dangerous well-meant advice from nonprofessionals can be. That is why I have not addressed joe directly ...

Get back to helping this young man named Joe, OK?

My advice is to live life enjoyably, yet sustainably. Take up bicycle riding into the countryside. Take transit into the city and walk around, visi ...

WildSparrow -

Last Monday I saw the British government's cheif scientist interviewed on TV over Katrina. He was very clear on the strong probability that the unprecedented GoM sea temperatures (tha ...

Has anyone seen this article? Could perhaps delay the onset of PO -

[url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html]rockymountainnews

Originall ...

The french don't have nay issues with storing nuclear waste, what with Tahiti and New Caledonia being so far away and all.

So true. They may seem to have an idyllic society but they are cannibalisi ...

Your points are interesting Gego. And perhaps pertinent - most people do not take responsibility for their own lives, period, and expect the government, the health system, and the education system to ...