Archive for the 'General' Category
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- Intro to Peak Oil video |
Posted by e4-video on Feb 07 2008
This short video comes from How to Boil a Frog, by way of Groovy Green. Despite the humorous approach, it's a pretty good, concise introduction to the topic. --
- 200 Things: Home |
Posted by e4 on Feb 06 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** If you live in a place where it gets hot in the summer, consider building a screen room (a room with screened windows all around or almost always around), either attached to your house or separate. You can put a wood cookstove in the screenroom ...
- Sustainability Starter Kit |
Posted by e4 on Feb 04 2008
In a continuing effort to bring you homescale ideas for lowering your fossil fuel dependence, I've turned to Rob at One Straw. He's got a tremendous post about the "sustainability starter kit" he's putting together in his community. He shows you how to build it for yourself and others. He's ...
- 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 ...
- Signs of the time? |
Posted by e4 on Jan 28 2008
[ This is a guest post from Lise Maring, as originally posted on ROE3. I thought it said a lot, and said it well. Reproduced with permission. ] -- I hear the reports about the roller-coaster ride the stock markets are taking these days. I half-heartedly wonder how my 401ks are doing. ...
- 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 ...
- Two Hundred Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil |
Posted by e4 on Jan 26 2008
Soon I will be starting a new series of posts focusing on simple, everyday things you can do prepare for peak oil. I mean, that's the whole point of this site, right? Sharon Astyk originally compiled a long list of ideas, which was published on Energy Bulletin here. She followed up ...
- Going Nuts |
Posted by e4 on Jan 24 2008
Among the fifty other things I want to do this spring (besides that whole baby being born thing) is plant some trees. Specifically, I want to plant a bunch of nut trees. I've got apples and peaches already, and I'd dearly love to add cherries (especially since we're in that ...