Helpful Post Peak Oil Book: The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook

Click here for Raise the Hammer's article by Ryan McGreal

I've ordered WAYYY too many books recently to justify buying this right away but this one will be at the top of my list of energy "depletive" living books to buy in the near future. Hat tip to Pat on ROE3!

Groovy Green: Groovy Indiana!

Wow! I wasn't aware that a factory near where I live is environmentally responsible. Groovy Green has taken a tour of the Subaru car manufacturing plant in Lafayette, Indiana, highlighting its ecologically responsible behaviors.

Steve Balogh! You didn't tell me you were going to be near me on this trip to the Subaru-Isuzu plant in Lafayette! I would've loved to have met you! Maybe we could've eaten salmonella-tainted peanut butter together! lol

Click here for full article

'No easy way out' by Thomas P.M. Barnett

I found this article tonight written by a military strategist who awestruck me in a presentation I saw on C-Span a year or two ago. Not that I agreed with him about the U.S. military strategy planned for the Mideast and for globalism (imperialism as some say-including me) but this article clearly indicates he does not understand the issues surrounding peak oil. I'm disappointed in his views on peak oil. The comments after the article are interesting. Please feel free to add to their comments!

Click here for article.

Matt Simmons (Bloomberg): Peak Oil Now, Oil Perhaps to $300

Tried to post this last week but Google wouldn't accept my new Blogger Beta status. This is too important not to post, especially for people who aren't as peak oil aware.

Recommended Cookbooks

World Community Cookbooks

Some of these cookbooks might be useful in your slide down the peak oil banister. These have been recommended to me by some other peak oil aware preppers.

"Crude Impact" to be Shown on Link TV

Click for link here.

I haven't seen this film and probably won't unless it pops up online somewhere. My area never shows controversial out-of-the-mainstream movies, and my cable company doesn't offer Link TV. However, I was made aware of its debut on this network and want to spread the word.

David and Sarah's Passive Solar Energy Off Grid Home - 2nd Edition

This is the second edition incorporating additional footage. David and Sarah built a passive solar home in Upstate NY in 2002. Fifty percent of the heat the home needs is generated from the sun. Supplemental heat is obtained by burning 1 cord of wood over the entire heating season. All the needed electricity is produced by a 1 Kilowatt onsite solar electric system and a 1 Kilowatt windmill coupled with a battery bank to store power for when it is needed. This home is one of hundreds that open their doors every year for the Green Buildings Open House the first saturday in Ocotober. For more information about GBOH, browse to http://www.nesea.org/buildings/openhouse

The Oil Factor in Somalia

Click here for an old article from the LA Times according to the .pdf

Another related article here.

U.S. to Raise Royalty Rates for Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf

Hot off the NYT press tonight!

Geoffrey Lean: Oil. The fast-vanishing drug the world can't yet live without.

Click here for Lean's article in The Independent. This is an excellent article which uses Dick Cheney's past words to explain the where we are today. Written from a UK perspective.

Open Thread: Peak Oil Prep Priorities. What are Yours and Why?

I thought I'd search for a little more interaction with some of you in order to gauge what people are doing where they are in order to prepare for any slide down the PO banister.....fast or slow decline views welcomed.

I also have a good link for you preppers that was submitted on ROE2. Click here.

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This is Where I Eventually Want to Be

New Christian Environmental Movement?: Creation Care

Click here for website.

Also click here for restoringeden.org website

These links are also probably not directly related to peak oil but I find interesting just the same as I am Christian and am finally seeing what I would like to see out of the organized church in these groups.

Is God Green? Special by Bill Moyers

Click here for 5 part video

Maybe this is not peak oil related but I found it very interesting and want to share.

ENDING OUR OIL ADDICTION NOW-www.autochannel.com

See video here. It's approximately 35 minutes long. Google video.