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Oakland Depletion Protocol
Oakland, California: Local Depletion Protocol By Alice Friedemann Latest revision February 21, 2006 Note: I’ve been adding to this as time permits since April 2005, as I read about the history of agriculture, transportation, etc. This was first posted July … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned from How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
originally published by Culture Change, Jun 7, 2006, in “Lessons for California and the U.S. from movie How Cuba survived Peak Oil by Alice Friedemann After seeing the film The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil at a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, What to do
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Birth Control Impossible due to Religion, they prefer you die of starvation, disease, and war
What a horror: so-called “Pro-Life” religions force their nasty beliefs on a woman’s right to control her own destiny and a civilizations ability to decently house and feed citizens, dooming societies of the future crazed from hunger and disease brought … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, What to do
Tagged birth control, collapse, disease, hunger, pro-life, religion, starvation, war, women's right to choose
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Dan Allen: When collapse happens, help it crash faster
What Dan Allen writes below is what many scientists and ecological activists are thinking and saying privately. Read his entire post at resilience.org for context, since this slice of the article seems rather harsh and cruel from this small excerpt. … Continue reading
Posted in Demand Destruction, What to do
Tagged peak oil, rapid collapse, what you can do
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MicroChips after Collapse: kiss your computer and cell phone goodbye
I encourage you to read about how pencils are made and Thwaite’s attempt to build a simple toaster from scratch before you read what follows. I don’t even attempt to list the hundreds of materials, rare metals, complex chemicals, catalysts, … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Antecedents, Humpty Dumpty, Localization, Making Stuff, Supply Chains
Tagged computer chip, impossible after collapse, microprocessor, preservatoin of knowledge
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Even Pencils will be hard to make
Most of us are unaware of how complex our society is, how things are made, how food is grown, how stuff is delivered, and the people, energy, transportation, and kinds and sources of materials in every day objects. This essay, … Continue reading
Posted in Antecedents, Extinction, Humpty Dumpty, Localization, Making Stuff, Supply Chains
Tagged collapse, peak oil, pencil
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How to find a good Property insurance company
What is a good homeowners insurance company? Solvent enough to pay your claim in a large disaster such as a fire or earthquake, and willing to pay you a reasonable amount of money in timely manner. After the 2008 financial … Continue reading
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Delay, Deny, Defend
Jay M. Feinman. 2010. Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It. Nearly all of the 3,500 families who burned down in the Oakland 1991 firestorm formed groups by insurance company to … Continue reading
States should stockpile food like Alaksa
Bohrer, B. 29 Aug 2012. Remote Alaska to stockpile food, just in case. Business Week. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is known for pioneering, self-reliant residents who are accustomed to remote locations and harsh weather. Despite that, Gov. Sean Parnell … Continue reading
Summary of Hirsch & Bezdek 2005 DOE Peak Oil study
A summary of: PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION: IMPACTS, MITIGATION, & RISK MANAGEMENT, February 2005 Robert L. Hirsch, SAIC, Project Leader Roger Bezdek, MISI, Robert Wendling, MISI The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with … Continue reading
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