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Advice for the End of the World…Or the Start of a New One

by: Sara on 12/19/2012
Posted in: Collapse

Today's post in our 21 Day to Prepare series comes to you from Neal Gorenflo. Besides being an editor of the book Share or Die, Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis, Neal  is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal is perhaps an unlikely voice for sharing. An epiphany in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people share through Internet startups, publishing, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends committed to the common good. This post also appeared on Shareable.net today.

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Tending the Fire

by: Sara on 12/16/2012
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Today's post in our 21 Days to Prepare Series comes from the award-winning author of Bioshelter Market Garden, A Permaculture Farm, Darrel Frey. He is the owner and manager of Three Sisters Farm, a 5 acre permaculture farm, solar greenhouse and market garden located in Western Pennsylvania. In this post Darrel speaks about the importance of fire throughout the history of our existence.

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Taking the 'Burbs: Square Yard Gardening

by: EJ on 12/14/2012
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Ellen LaConte, author of Life Rules: Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapsewill be posting a series of essays on her blog that explore the small but cumulative steps we might take toward the conversion of 20th century suburbs into sustainable communities in which post-collapse humans might survive and thrive.  …

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A Woman, a Plan, a Canard ...

by: EJ on 12/12/2012
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Sharon Astyk is the author of five New Society Publishers books including the upcoming Green Sex: Love, Friendship, Marriage, Family, Gender and Reproduction in an Ecologically Constrained World.  Sharon is one of the leading thinkers in post-peak living and her calm, reasonable and thoughtful approach to preparedness always inspires me to take …

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On the Eve of the Prophecy, from a Squat in the Woods.

by: Sara on 12/11/2012
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Miles Olson is the author of Unlearn, Rewild, Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspiration for the Future Primitive in which he explores the human relationship with the wild and offers up some hard won survival skills.  Today, Day 11 of our 21 Days to Prepare series, Miles proposes that we have some fun and prepare to die! This piece was originally posted on Miles' blog milesolson.net.

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