[SustainableTompkins] "Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook"

[Katie Quinn-Jacobs]

Not only is it good to see home & community preparedness taking root on 
the left side of the spectrum, but it's refreshing to have a practical 
and playful approach to energy descent. Bates' book is a good place to 
start as we reassess our households in terms of peak oil survival, 
sustainability and the Great Turning (though Bates refers to it as "the 
Great Change.")

I'll be bringing my copy of /The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide & 
Cookbook/ (along with other preparedness books) to the 
PreparedTompkins.org booth at Earth Day, if anyone would like to look it 
over.

-- Katie Q-J





Michael Brown wrote:
> Of the books I've read on the subjects of Peak Oil and the process of  
> "Powering Down", this is by far the most practical, and covers the  
> most territory.
>
> Albert Bates is a great author (both authoritative, as well as  
> entertaining), and clearly has his head in (what I consider to be)  
> the right place.
>
> His recipes also sound wonderful - haven't tried many yet, but intend  
> to.  :-)
>
> I would (for what it's worth) recommend this as a "first book" to  
> loan/give anyone who you suspect is of the same mindset as someone  
> you might loan/give "PowerDown" or "Long Emergency" or something  
> similar.
>
> It is a really good book.
>
> Just my $.02,
> Mike
>
> PS: To sum up - if you haven't read it yet, you should do so right  
> away, then buy it for folks you care about.
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Elan Shapiro wrote:
>
>   
>>> Haven't seen this, just passing along the info.
>>>       
>>     Elan
>>
>>     
>>> THE POST PETROLEUM SURVIVAL GUIDE AND COOKBOOK:  RECIPES FOR  
>>> CHANGING TIMES
>>> (New Society Publishers)
>>> by Albert Bates, founder of the Ecovillage
>>> Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee and the Global Village  
>>> Institute
>>>
>>> Interviews and book reviews about Albert and his new book:
>>> http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3927
>>> http://newsoutherner.com/dog-eared_interview.htm
>>> http://www.aliciabaylaurel.com/postpetroleumsurvivalguide
>>>
>>> Here's what others are saying about Albert's book:
>>>
>>> This book is like a Swiss army knife. Sharp. Simple. Very practical.
>>> Extremely useful. Full of survival tools, which you may need in  
>>> the next
>>> five minutes or five years from now. -- Dr. Valentin Yemelin, climate
>>> scientist at the United Nations Environment Programme/GRID- 
>>> Arendal, Norway.
>>>
>>> In the Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook, Albert Bates
>>> demonstrates with great clarity and panache that if you love this
>>> planet, you must change your life. -- Dr. Helen Caldicott,  
>>> pediatrician
>>> and author of If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth
>>>
>>> This really is the book we've been waiting for -- a practical,
>>> optimistic guide to life beyond the peak -- to its ingenious,
>>> resourceful and common-sense possibilities as well as to its  
>>> inevitable
>>> challenges.- Rob Hopkins, TransitionCulture.org
>>>
>>> With luck, we will never need to know how to throw together an  
>>> expedient
>>> fallout shelter, but this book tells us how, and what to stock it  
>>> with.
>>> These are indeed Recipes for Changing Times -- very tasty food for
>>> thought! - John Pike, Director of GlobalSecurity.org, member of  
>>> the US
>>> Council on Foreign Relations.
>>>
>>> The Post Petroleum Survival Guide is exactly what we've needed - a
>>> cheery, funny, and supremely useful book about the end of  
>>> civilization -
>>> that actually tells us what we can do about it and how to prepare.
>>> Packed full of great resources and references, this is the  
>>> guidebook I'd
>>> want to have at my side.  - Starhawk, author of the Spiral Dance, The
>>> Fifth Sacred Thing and The Earth Path
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>       
>> -- 
>>
>>
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>> 	          Mohandas Gandhi
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