Post Petroleum Lecture – a reminder

March 21, 2007

...Series. Here’s the announcement again: Albert Bates is a permaculture and appropriate technology instructor at the Eco village Training Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee, inventor of solar cars, pedal flour sifters and cylindrical tofu presses, and author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990). His Post-Petroleum Survival Guide a...

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Climate Change and Personal Responsibility

Mrs. Homegrown

June 28, 2013

Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings

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...we, as individuals, acknowledge the cost of our lifestyle and, if it seems appropriate to us after reflection, take action to alter that lifestyle. Leaving personal responsibility out of the equation has a two-fold effect. First, it makes the issue abstract. It becomes someone else’s problem and someone else’s fault. Then the blame game begins. Second, it makes us feel disempowered: if the problem is all about politics and industry, it’s too big f...

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Post Petroleum Lecture

Mr. Homegrown

March 11, 2007

Miscellaneous

...his next one! From Khan’s announcement: Albert Bates is a permaculture and appropriate technology instructor at the Eco village Training Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee, inventor of solar cars, pedal flour sifters and cylindrical tofu presses, and author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990). His Post-Petroleum Survival Guide a...

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Washing Machine Greywater Resources

Mr. Homegrown

May 26, 2009

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...sis Biocompatible detergent, the only laundry detergent we can find that’s appropriate for greywater use. It works great and, again, click through the link and we get a little support. A selection of three way diverter valves. Note the 1″ brass model for laundry systems. Use these diverters to shift between sending your greywater outside or back to the sewer. Great if you have to do a load of diapers. We don’t have one, but we’re both cheap and ki...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...ker (@awalkerinLA) June 8, 2018 If you don’t have time to read the full 70-page UCLA study, then watch this short video on why transit ridership has declined and what can be done about it https://t.co/09uPpcyDCK — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) June 7, 2018 Beautiful gardens in the back of Japanese mini pickup trucks https://t.co/Euw432jyF4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 7, 2018 At the peak of its technological advancement, human civilization be...

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