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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Your Personal Plan to Cope with Petroleum Depletion
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:22:37 -0700


Your Personal Plan to Cope with Petroleum Depletion
by Carla Emery
excerpt from http://www.carlaemery.com/fossil-fuel.htm

1. Be frugal. Choose thrift over waste, spiritual over material. Get out of
debt. Sell your mortgaged home. Use the equity to buy housing that you can
own free-and-clear, "be it ever so humble."

2. Be healthy. Grow as much of your food as possible with no herbicides, no
pesticides, and no artificial fertilizers. Every year, try to make your
garden bigger and more productive than the year before. Sell your surplus
food production. Drink pure water (filter if needed).

3. Choose sustainability. Install renewable energy substitutes for all
propane-using appliances. If you burn wood, grow a woodlot. Learn solar
cooking and get a solar cooker. Install a rainwater collection system with
storage tank. Install a compost toilet. Use all the homestead-produced
humanure and manure to enrich your soil. Save seeds or let selected plants
self-seed. Reject embalming and choose a "green burial."

4. Be self-reliant. Store food. Feed your livestock homegrown food
(vegetables, grass, hay) as much as possible. Ride a bicycle. Or horse. Or
drive a motorcycle, or hybrid, or electric vehicle (batteries charged by
surplus power from your private renewable energy system)! Learn to use hand
tools (versus power tools).

5. Be networked. Practice lifelong learning. Get to know your neighbors and
make yourself helpful to them. Lobby for enlightened local zoning.
Encourage development of renewable power in your community.
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paul tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://medicinehill.net
NM






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