Archive for the 'Community' Category
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- Doom. Doom! DOOOOOOM! |
Posted by e4 on Mar 13 2008
With all the bad news in the financial markets, the real estate markets, and at the fuel pump, I thought I'd lighten the mood up a bit. What the heck did people do for fun before road trips, video games, cheap airfares, and reality shows? Surely there must have been something ...
- There Was No Fat Lady Singing |
Posted by e4 on Feb 27 2008
[ This is a guest post by Wendy. She and her husband (Deus ex Machina) are finding their way through peak oil, climate change, frugal living, and local eating from the midst of suburbia. Unlike some writers, she actually sees a lot of potential in large numbers of people tending ...
- 200 Things: Community |
Posted by e4 on Feb 13 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly - sharing food is an important part of community building. **** Attend zoning meetings and consider running for zoning board. Work ...
- 200 Things: Family |
Posted by e4 on Feb 09 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Talk to your older kids about sex, birth control, responsibility, your values and what you expect of them. Have this conversation early and often, and combine it with a discussion of peak oil, so that they can understand what the implications of early sexual activity ...
- 200 Things: Fall |
Posted by e4 on Feb 04 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Simple, cheap insulating strategies (window quilts and blankets, draft stoppers, etc...) are easily made from cheap or free materials - goodwill, for example, often has jeans, tshirts and shrunken wool sweaters, of quality too poor to sell, that can be used for quilting material and ...
- 200 Things: Summer |
Posted by e4 on Feb 01 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** If you don't can or dehydrate, now is the time to learn. In most climates, you can waterbath can or dehydrate with a minimum of purchased materials, and produce is abundant and cheap. If you don't garden, check out your local farmstand for day-old produce ...
- 200 Things: Spring |
Posted by e4 on Jan 30 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Rethink your seed starting regimen. How will you do it without potting soil, grow lights and warming mats. Consider creating manure heated hotbeds, using your own compost, building a greenhouse, or coldframe, direct seeding early versions of transplanted crops, etc... **** Your local feed store has chicks ...
- 200 Things: Winter |
Posted by e4 on Jan 27 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Your local adult education program almost certainly has something useful to teach you - woodworking, crocheting, music training, horseback riding, CPR, herbalism, vegetarian cookery... take advantage of people who want to teach their skills **** Get serious about land use planning - even if you live in ...
- Personal Peak Prep - Community Building |
Posted by e4 on Dec 06 2007
This guest post is about the personal activities and preparations of someone who’s name you might recognize, but who wishes to remain nameless here. I’ve separated it into multiple posts based on topic. -- Community Building: Of the things that are the most rewarding, joining a local church and broadening our circle of friends ...
- Out of the shadows |
Posted by e4 on Nov 03 2007
I promise I'm going to get to some practical, non-philosophical stuff next time. But for now, a few more musings... Sometimes I'm a little hesitant to talk to people about peak oil. A lot of people don't want to hear about it or think about it. But I realized something recently. We ...