selfsufficiency | Dismantle Civilisation

This is a very long, but brilliantly well researched essay by Peter Salonius, taken from The Oil Drum. The basic premise is that we stopped being sustainable thousands of years ago (this is the general feeling of most anti-civ writers working today) and that without phenomenal population reductions in tandem with a complete cultural change [...] Read more »

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edible city

Posted in act local, beyond organic, selfsufficiency, useful media on Apr 30th, 2009 No Comments »

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BBC Dig In

Posted in gardening, selfsufficiency on Apr 13th, 2009 No Comments »

The BBC have launched a campaign called Dig In via some of its shows to get people growing their own veg, and are giving out seeds and informatin packs as part of it. If you haven’t got into Growying Your Own yet and want some free seeds and easy-to-follow advice, then sign up and get [...] Read more »

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a year in a forest garden

Posted in beyond organic, gardening, permaculture, selfsufficiency, useful media on Apr 13th, 2009 No Comments »

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What is Revolution?

Posted in beyond organic, cooperation, equality, heirarchies, selfsufficiency on Apr 7th, 2009 2 Comments »

What would you like to see happen to civilization after it is dismantled? Read more »

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100 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil

Posted in collapse, cooperation, gardening, health, peak oil, permaculture, sane words, saving seeds, selfsufficiency on Mar 31st, 2009 2 Comments »

Following on from Techno-Peasant’s eye-opening, but ultimately realistic article about living outside of civilization, I thought this would be a perfect time to publish Sharon Astyk’s brilliant list of “100 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil“. Lists rarely cut it when looking at real life solutions or providing effective advice: these [...] Read more »

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COMPLICATIONS: responding to collapse means you must become more personally responsible

Posted in collapse, selfsufficiency on Mar 9th, 2009 2 Comments »

by Kurt Cobb, reprinted from carolynbaker.net
In this way the complications which are about to enter our lives as the fossil fuel age winds down will move us away from the one-dimensional, disconnected, simplified life we now lead, and toward a richer life in which objects and people call upon us to care for them much [...] Read more »

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adapting in place

Posted in collapse, selfsufficiency on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »

First of a proposed series of articles at The Oil Drum: Campfire, about adapting to the new paradigm/culture without having to move. By Sharon Astyk.
The first question to ask is whether we should take in-place adaptation seriously at all. Shouldn’t we, ideally, try and choose the best possible place to deal with the coming crisis?
Some [...] Read more »

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food storage baby steps

Posted in selfsufficiency on Jan 7th, 2009 No Comments »

Excellent article from Sharon Astyk.
So you want to get started, and you don’t know where to begin. Here are my suggestions.
1. Allot some space to food in your life. This could be as simple as taking the heart shaped cake pans and bundt pans you use only three times a year and [...] Read more »

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