Category Archives: What to do

Legal & Illegal Immigration must stop

Posted on April 5, 2014 by

[ I am so tired of only racist dregs getting covered in the media about immigration.  There are millions of non-racists who are not racist but math literate who can clearly see that we have allowed population to grow beyond … Continue reading →

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Transportation

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Jan 14, 2008  DISARRAY  by James Howard Kunstler Stop all highway-building altogether. Instead, direct public money into repairing railroad rights-of-way. Put together public-private partnerships for running passenger rail between American cities and towns in between. If Amtrak is unacceptable, get … Continue reading →

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Richard Heinberg We need 50 million farmers

Posted on April 4, 2014 by

Fifty Million Farmers by Richard Heinberg, originally published by Energy Bulletin  | Nov 17, 2006 (Note: This is the abbreviated text of a lecture by Richard Heinberg delivered to the E. F. Schumacher Society in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on October 28, … Continue reading →

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We’ll need more Farmers

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Energy Descent and Agricultural Population Jason Bradford on March 11, 2009 Some excerpts of this article below: Among the cadre of folks who think about food systems and sustainability in the U.S., there’s a concern about the number of farmers … Continue reading →

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Softer landing if we can keep the Combines going

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Save it for the Combine August 24, 2010. Jason Bradford Excerpts from this article: The combine performs tasks that replace an enormous amount of labor in a reliable and timely fashion.  It cuts the stalks of seed crops, threshes the … Continue reading →

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Energy in the Food System uses 19% of all energy consumed in the USA. Pimentel 2008

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Pimentel David, et. al. 2008.  Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System.  Human Ecology 36:459–471 [ Here are some excerpts from this paper. I don’t list many of the ideas in the article on how to do this though, … Continue reading →

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Grow Nut Trees in your backyard

Posted on April 4, 2014 by

Woody Agriculture – On the Road to a New Paradigm July 27, 2012.  Philip A. Rutter et. al. [snipped and some paraphrasing – do read the whole long article at the link above if you are interested in planting nut … Continue reading →

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Dmitry Orlov Definancialisation, deglobalisation and relocalisation

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

Definancialisation, deglobalisation and relocalisation by Dmitry Orlov. Sep 2, 2011. Fleeing Vesuvius. Some excerpts: Collapse without preparation is a defeat. Collapse with preparation is an eccentricity. I concede that the choice is a difficult one: either we wait for circumstances … Continue reading →

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Fleeing Vesuvius Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Enviromental Collapse

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

Fleeing Vesuvius.  Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Enviromental Collapse   This book has many ideas about what to do across many spheres. Escape routes: Fleeing Vesuvius – which way should we go?  summarizes the “what to do” conclusions of … Continue reading →

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Coping with Deflation

Posted on March 19, 2014 by

2008 Yesterday we talked about why we are facing deflation and today I wanted to review and explain the suggestions we have made previously for dealing with a deflationary scenario. In short, this is the list we have run periodically … Continue reading →

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