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Page added on October 29, 2011
Preparing for Peak Oil
One family prepares for “peak oil” by converting their home to a net-zero solar powered home.
The world oil supply crisis may cause global inflation, unemployment, and depletion of other energy sources.
4 Comments on "Preparing for Peak Oil"
Kenz300 on Sat, 29th Oct 2011 3:27 pm
The average person is looking for instant gratification. They do not buy an energy efficient appliance that will save them money in the long run because it costs a little more than the cheapest less energy efficient appliance. We are too focused on the short term to the detriment of the long term. We need to be more focused on what is sustainable.
John on Sat, 29th Oct 2011 7:02 pm
Where is part 2-4?
sunweb on Sat, 29th Oct 2011 7:28 pm
Suggestions for energy and material savings are periodically posted in the media. These are very important. When I held classes on “simple living” in the mid 1970s I made this suggest. That for three or four days as you move through your world with each thing you touch consider the ideas below.
What is it made of?
Where did it come from?
How much energy did it take to make?
Could I make it myself?
Can I get it locally?
Do I need it?
Some of these are questions most of us cannot answer in full or even partially. However, in a world of unstable energy prices, threatened energy availability, and broad environmental degradation addressing our energy and material uses at the head of the stream is a major step towards sustainability. Ask not how to reduce from our present 100 percent use to 90 or 75 percent use; ask what we truly need to live non-brutishly to preserve this earth for the seventh generation.
From the Curmudgeon Vignettes, read more at:
http://sunweber.blogspot.com/2011/07/curmudgeon-vignettes.html
The basics:
where and how do you get your water? Your food? Your heat? Your clothes? I lived without electricity, but not these things.
Btritt on Sun, 30th Oct 2011 4:55 am
Simple math says that 7 billion people cannot have an average American lifestyle, when those 300 million use 1/4 of the world’s resources. Now we are at the point where they are demanding their share and rightly so.
Everything you see that was made by man has an oil footprint. Everything. Name one thing that did not, somewhere in the process, require oil. You cannot. Metals start in mines, that require machines made with metals. Those machines run on oil. Then there is the trucking industry, etc. NOTHING gets to your door without oil.