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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 3 |
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:29 am
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| Bought a brand new fancy lithium ion cordless 18v tool kit... Lithium may soon be in short supply. I only buy DC electronics that will run on 12VDC, or some multiple. That way, you can easily match them to common alternative power sources. I've already re-wired such tools to have a cord and Anderso... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Peaker Ecovillages revisited |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:34 am
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| The important thing is to agree up front what your aims are and get clear objective in place. Worth repeating. The bad property-sharing experiences are almost all related to a lack of clearly understood common values and goals. Sometimes it's arrogance ("We know what we're doing, and we don't ... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Peaker Ecovillages revisited |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:32 am
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| Personally I'm working strictly with family and friends(all three of them) I have known for many years. Not a bad idea for your core founders' group, but you may find that you'll eventually need more than that number of people. There is a lot of space between a couple or small family taking on a ho... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: The Vanishing Middle Ground |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:56 pm
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| Yeah, a lot of people seem to like the feudalism thing for some reason. That'll never happen here in the US of A, that's for sure. Never say, "never!" In my experience, "never" is a very long time, and anything could happen. Too many guns. "Too many guns" means enough ... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: The Vanishing Middle Ground |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:43 am
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| In a peakoil world there will be a steady state economy... I think the likes of HT Odum would argue otherwise: in a peak oil world, there will be a steadily declining economy, until energy use falls to a sustainable level. Energy use = economy . We've known this for sixty years: "The better yo... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: The Vanishing Middle Ground |
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:04 pm
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| 1. According to a study of Federal Reserve data conducted by NYU professor Edward Wolff, for the nation’s richest 1%, inherited wealth accounted for only 9% of their net worth in 2001, down from 23% in 1989. (The 2001 number was the latest available.) I suspect that in a quickly rising market, the ... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 3 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:23 pm
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| Ear protection is important for these things... WHAT DID HE SAY? (In my case, it was being in rock-n-roll bands in my youth...) It was rather entertaining in a former life, when, after my ex insisted I go for an audiology exam, the examiner took her aside after the test and patiently explained the ... |
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Forum: Open Topic Discussion Topic: Future news stories I'd love to see |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:20 pm
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| Americans All Agree to "Just Stop It" In a sweeping consensus, every single American agreed to stop using fossil fuel today. In response, Obama agreed to take the trillion or so dollars back that he had given to the banks, and will use it instead to supply every American with enough seed ... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 3 |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:14 pm
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| I have to saw out 5 windows with the metal cutting circular saw (made for cutting metal). Nasty, spark-throwing, overhead job that I dread. Hope you've got eye protection. I once spent a couple hours in the emergency room, with a suction cup behind my eyelid, pumping water through. About as much fu... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: The Vanishing Middle Ground |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm
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| Banality and complacency. Think I go outside and split some more wood for next winter's heat. Right on! Visiting the in-laws in their vapid suburban existence has turned my brain to mush. (I actually used a gasoline lawnmower today, for the first time since 1982. Ugh.) Can't wait to get home and gr... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 3 |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:15 pm
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| Today, I blew $220.47 on books at Powell's (not bad for 14 books), including American Horticultural Association's Plant Propagation, Gene Logsdon's Small Scale Grain Production, Dana Meadow's (posthumous) Thinking in Systems, Dmitry Orlov's Reinventing Collapse, and a number of Paul Hawken books, in... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: The Vanishing Middle Ground |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:01 pm
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Don't feed the trolls, folks.
We've all got better things to do than to enable those who are better at complaining than doing.
None of the whiners have bothered to address any of the valid points I brought up. They don't deserve any more of my time, how 'bout yours? |
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Forum: Open Topic Discussion Topic: Future news stories I'd love to see |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:54 am
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| It's difficult enough for families to get by with two incomes. I object to this assertion. Me too! I was involved with an unsuccessful ecovillage group once, and asked someone why nothing much had happened in several years. The answer, "Everyone has been too busy just surviving." That see... |
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Forum: Economics & Finance Topic: Peak Oil Means Socialism |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 am
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| So long as the American Dream is alive, there will be no Mutant Zombie Socialists. With a half-million mortgage defaults a month, it looks like "The American Dream" is on life-support. If you think that the end of growth in energy availability means the end of economic growth, then "... |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Topic: Peaker Ecovillages revisited |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:15 am
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| After some years of shared house living I would recommend not to search for the biggest ideological agreement, but rather for sound down to earth guys, they are easier to deal with than dreaming hippies. I think you need both. I look for a history of accomplishment. I'd rather have someone join who... |
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