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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times

by Albert Bates

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Publisher Comments:


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 Cookbookprovides 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.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780865715684
Subtitle:
Recipes for Changing Times
Author:
Bates, Albert
Author:
Bates
Author:
Albert
Publisher:
New Society Publishers
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Personal & Practical Guides
Subject:
Petroleum industry and trade
Subject:
Environmentalism
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Subject:
Climate and civilization
Subject:
Forecasting -- United States.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
October 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
237
Dimensions:
9.00 x 7.00 in

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