by krapgame » Wed 09 Sep 2009, 00:07:55
Well, now that I've already posted elsewhere a few times, I guess the polite thing would be to introduce myself. I'm not particularly a peak oil person per se, but Patience introduced me to this board a couple of years ago. I am very interested in self reliance practices and having lurked here for some time I see that there are others with similar interests. Regardless of our individual motivations, the paths and objective would seem to share much in common. I believe we're headed to basically the same conclusion, albeit for slightly different reasons.
My background, I grew up (or maybe just aged) a farm kid in southern Indiana. Really didn't have an interest in it and did much to get away from it. Once I escaped, I started working to return to it, purchasing part of the farm I grew up on from my parents. By trade I was a draftsman/designer in various disciplines, gave that up about 18 years ago to pursue an interest in computers, which led to starting an Internet service company, which evolved into a CLEC telephone company, which I still own and operate today. I've worked as a musician semi professionally in everything from Bluegrass to Heavy Metal, but pretty much retired from that because I got tired of babysitting musician types.
I've digested much of what the old Mother Earth News (first 100 episodes) has to offer with regards to alternate technologies and have tried to implement the appropriate portions of that where it makes sense. Also have sieved many good ideas from the folks here that I'm working to implement.
My present interests, in no particular order;
sustainable agriculture, circa 1950's era technology generally
solar utilization, especially as heat source to perform work
sustainable technology preservation
It appears that there's plenty of discussion of all of these happening here. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute something useful from time to time.