am currently making myself sick on miss vickie's jalapeno chips ( Read more... )

I'm beyond annoyed with the Save the Planet rhetoric. Y'all realize that the planet will be just fine, right? It's our ridiculous way of modern living that is in jeopardy. It's humanity that's in jeopardy. Not the planet. Get rid of humanity in one fell swoop and the planet will recover and stabilize a hell of a lot faster. 5 minutes here, an hour ( Read more... )

I am totally not feeling the christmas spirit this year. It feels so foreign to me, all the santa stuff and the consumerist rush to buy buy buy for people. I keep getting e-flyers from Ikea and Amazon and Canadian Tire and I find it all a little gross, the sales and the stuff ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to the coyote-lovin' ocelot! :-)

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Barefoot, Bearded and In the Kitchen: Feminism Post-Peak

Alrighty, this essay totally rocks my socks. I want to give sample quotes to entice, but I can't decide which ones would be best because there are too many.

we played Scrabble yesterday, and it was Such Fun! optimystik seemed reluctant at first, fearing that with my supposedly superior vocabulary skills I would soundly trounce him, but he was only mildly trounced in the first game, came out a winner in the second game we played with misslynx (who was a Very Sore Loser, btw -- she was obviously not feeling well), and ( Read more... )

Oil Crises
The Long Emergency, a Rolling Stone article by James Howard Kunstler
Life After the Oil Crash, quasi-alarmist in tone, but there are links aplenty for further research
The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age by Richard C. Duncan, Ph. D.
Hubbert peak from Wikipedia

Practical Information
The Humanure Handbook ( Read more... )

If you are already thirsty, it is too late to start digging the well.

So the oil's going to run out eventually, and sooner than we'd all like to think about or admit. Or there'll be another blackout and the power just won't come back on -- or it'll be extremely limited when and where it does return. And where will that leave us? Up shit creek ( Read more... )

So the idea of living in a commune, or rather, forming a small intentional community has, recently and once again, been dangled in front of my hippie-wannabe face, and it got me thinking: If I lived in an intentional community, what would I do? What niche would I fill ( Read more... )