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Re: Hello from Nottingham, England

Unread postby davep » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 16:29:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tiberius', 'H')is picture looks just fine on my giant wide screen monitor. Is the traffic on this site so massive that one large picture will hog up all the remaining bandwidth?


If the pictures are hosted elsewhere, they won't really affect bandwidth from this site. However, they're a pain on my little eee pc.
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HI Everyone - Survival Lady here....

Unread postby SurvivalLady » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:34:55

I've been a long time reader and thought I'd finally jump in on the posting. You're all so full of great advice, I appreciate everything I read!

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Re: HI Everyone - Survival Lady here....

Unread postby Sixstrings » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:42:19

Welcome aboard. Nice blog you have there.
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Re: HI Everyone - Survival Lady here....

Unread postby Narz » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:02:59

Hi welcome, nice blog. :)
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Re: HI Everyone - Survival Lady here....

Unread postby Pops » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:06:50

Hi Lady, looks like you have things to share as well.

Welcome.
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Re: HI Everyone - Survival Lady here....

Unread postby Ferretlover » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 20:11:02

Welcome. Since you've been reading for a while, you probably have a good idea of how things work. If you have any questions, please ask any Moderator. :)
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Figured it was time to stop lurking and register.

Unread postby Thralen » Wed 14 Jan 2009, 04:03:26

Thralen...
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Re: Figured it was time to stop lurking and register.

Unread postby Concerned » Wed 14 Jan 2009, 04:38:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Thralen', 'T')hralen...


Welcome.
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Re: Figured it was time to stop lurking and register.

Unread postby Sixstrings » Wed 14 Jan 2009, 04:58:17

Oh boy, another mouth to feed. When do we close the gates?

*joking* Welcome :)
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I like your web site.

Unread postby oildigger72 » Thu 29 Jan 2009, 12:08:42

Check out mine:

http://www.survivingrecession.com

(Maybe we can link up somehow.)
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Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby jackrabbit » Fri 30 Jan 2009, 11:27:08

Hello all, jackrabbit here. I'm interested in learning more about the decline of the petroleum age and where my plans fit in. I see changes coming, but don't know where we will fall between Business-As-Usual and the Zombie Apocalypse. I would very much like to be prepared to survive the worst, and there seems to be a ton of helpful info here about the basics as well as more philosophical discourse. I like it that folks are talking about this.

My interests: intentional community, permaculture, alternative economic systems, sustainable agriculture, decentralization of government and food/energy production, cradle to cradle... and the list goes on.

I am currently living and working in Richmond, VA. I am part of a group searching for land in West Virginia to found an intentional community where we hope to ride out the current decline and, hopefully, thrive in tomorrow's world. I will have more substantive material later on exactly how we hope to do that.
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Re: Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby vision-master » Fri 30 Jan 2009, 11:36:54

Get back to me when it's time to 'move in'.
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Re: Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby vision-master » Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:49:21

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Re: Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby jackrabbit » Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:08:53

Thanks everyone for your replies. pstarr, I am on page with most of your ideas, but one thing confuses me...
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'G')et out of debt (or be prepared to be a nomad, living out of your car. Not the worst life.)

Why would I care about my credit score at times like these? It's not like there's a whole lot of credit to be had anyways. It would seem wiser to invest in land, non-perishable food, guns and ammo, and other basic necessities. I guess it depends on your definition of "debt"... I don't want my paychecks garnished by creditors, but I also may get more bang per buck from stockpiling some food etc rather than paying off those student loans.

I hear what you're saying about reinventing the wheel... but we have searched and searched for existing communities that suit our needs to no avail. We have identified an area that has many desirable neighbors (EntropyPawsed and Gesundheit! to name a couple) as well as access to fresh water.

Water, shelter, food, health care... the trick is to balance the stockpiling and shorter term preparations with building the long term capacity to reinvent a civilization that "pays its bills" rather than relying on cheap petroleum and vulnerable centralized resource grids. Our hope is that we will be able to utilize human and natural capital to provide our basic needs before the status quo disintegrates. What do you tell a diabetic who needs insulin, or a parent of a child with asthma?

If any of us could predict the future accurately enough to know if/when some type of collapse will happen then we would all be able to plan accordingly. I do not trust anyone who claims to know the extent, or the timing, of any such collapse. Our group is acting as quickly as we can to respond to the probability of resource grid failures while continuing to manage our lives in the "real world". Maybe we are too late, but we're doing the best we can with the resources and information available.
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Re: Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby Pops » Fri 30 Jan 2009, 20:00:19

And to you rabbit.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jackrabbit', 'I') hear what you're saying about reinventing the wheel... but we have searched and searched for existing communities that suit our needs to no avail.

So make your own, buy a little place or a few little places that do meet your requirements and match your skills, meld into the existing community and get to work.

Talk in cheap friend, get to work and check out the Planning For the Future forum in the meantime.
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Re: Greetings Earthlings

Unread postby Boris555 » Sat 31 Jan 2009, 01:14:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'A')nd to you rabbit.$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jackrabbit', 'I') hear what you're saying about reinventing the wheel... but we have searched and searched for existing communities that suit our needs to no avail.
So make your own, buy a little place or a few little places that do meet your requirements and match your skills, meld into the existing community and get to work.
Talk in cheap friend, get to work and check out the Planning For the Future forum in the meantime.

Yep, if you want to do something DO IT. Don't spend your life planning for it. I rarely meet anyone who, after hearing how I bought my land and built my own house, doesn't say "Yeah, I've always wanted to do that. Someday I will." But so few ever do.

And I'm starting my own community. I have two recently unemployed and one underemployed friend who I am allowing to build small cabins on a piece of land I own about a mile down the road. You can find all sorts of perfectly good free and cheap building materials on craigslist, construction site trash and in junkyards. Sometimes people PAY you to haul it away. (Old wooden fences are good for this.) This is how my friends are building their places. A days backhoe rental was all we needed for digging the septic system, which they will all tie in to.

So, <b>jackrabbit</b> action item 1 is GET SOME LAND. You can live in a tent or simple shelter for a year and save money. One of my neighbors lived in a cheap travel trailer (that he got off CL) for a year while we built his house. Then he sold it at the same cost to someone else. Another friend down the road lives with his wife and THREE kids in a simple barn-type structure we built in a week. He's building a better house, but they committed to a year of "roughing it" to be able to build their house with cash and be debt free.

So go for it my friend, the feeling of freedom is exhilarating every day. Get some friends to go in with you and have a ball.
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HELLO.

Unread postby Plugitup » Sat 31 Jan 2009, 10:33:13

Hello! from Plugitup,
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Re: HELLO.

Unread postby Heineken » Sat 31 Jan 2009, 14:37:36

Hello.

Is that all you're going to tell us about yourself?
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Re: Hello, and thank you PO...

Unread postby village1diot » Sat 31 Jan 2009, 15:42:52

Well, I came up with a solution for my pool that, I think< is going to be something of interest to a lot of pool owners in the future.

I am going to use the existing hole to make a pond. But not just any typical pond. A pond that will pay for itself. I was looking at different types of filters for ponds when I came across a biological filter that consisted of gravel with some water plants. Earlier I was reading how you could combine "Hydroponics" and "Aquaculture" to create a self-sustaining system that grew enormous plants and healthy fish without the use of any chemicals. The plants clean the water and the fish feed the plants. This was being done with tanks for fish, grow beds for the plants, and a pump for water flow. I immediately started thinking of taking it to the next level. I have designed a system that will use the "Aquaponics" to convert my pool for fish and vegetable production. With an initial cost, there is very little cost to keep it maintained. Nothing but returns in the form of free food after that.

I will soon have a web page(or blog) that will show the process. I am still in the early stages and it's mostly just on paper as of now. I have done a few things such as create a smaller system to see how it works on a small scale, and I am amazed at the efficiency.
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Re: Hello, and thank you PO...

Unread postby Ferretlover » Sat 31 Jan 2009, 17:53:48

I did not see anything noted about keeping the wild ducks and geese out...
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