
The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook
Recipes for Changing Times
Albert Bates(Author)
New Society Publishers
Published on 16. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-86571-568-4 (ISBN)
Description
Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook provides useful practical advice for preparing your family and community to make the transition. This book takes a positive, upbeat, and optimistic view of "the Great Change," promoting the idea that it can be an opportunity to redeem our essential interconnectedness with nature and with each other. The many rifts that have grown up since oil became the world's prime commodity can be mended: between cities and their food sources; the design of the suburban-built environment and its car-oriented sprawl; runaway greenhouse warming, and the clearing of forests and toxification of rivers, oceans, and land.
Topics covered include: * Rebuilding civilization * Changing your needs * Water and waste disposal * Energy and transportation * Equipment and tools * Food storage and first aid Also including lighthearted, playful recipes-some using basic, wholesome foods, some illustrating food growing or preservation, and all emphasizing organic, flavorful, and locally grown produce that can readily substitute one for another-this book is about having your catastrophe and eating it too.
Topics covered include: * Rebuilding civilization * Changing your needs * Water and waste disposal * Energy and transportation * Equipment and tools * Food storage and first aid Also including lighthearted, playful recipes-some using basic, wholesome foods, some illustrating food growing or preservation, and all emphasizing organic, flavorful, and locally grown produce that can readily substitute one for another-this book is about having your catastrophe and eating it too.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Gabriola Island
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
525 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86571-568-4 (9780865715684)
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Person
Albert Bates is an Environmental Educator and Founder of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee. He has been instrumental in facilitating the growth of the worldwide ecovillage movement into an organization of more than 20,000 communities on six continents with more than one million residents.
Content
Foreword by Richard Heinberg; Step 1 - Rebuild Civilisation; Step 2 - Save Your Water; Step 3 - Manage Your Wastes; Step 4 - Create Energy; Step 5 - Grow Your Food; Step 6 - Store Your Food; Step 7 - Be Prepared; Step 8 - Change Your Ride; Step 9 - Change Your Need; Step 10 - Imagine Sustainability; Step 11 - Quit Your Job; Step 12 - Utopia By Morning; Afterword: The Great Change; Index.