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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: ...and then it started raining!

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Tuesday, June 3, 2008. And then it started raining! Our timing is out of sync at the moment). The garden coped pretty well with the heavy rain, with the excess water quickly evacuating off the land or into our dams. We also have thick planting...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: February 2008

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Time for some lifeboat building. It's a term Richard Heinberg uses to describe part of the solution for peak oil. People preparing their own homes, gardens and communities for peak oil. Here in the subtropics winte...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: March 2008

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Sunday, March 16, 2008. Ready, set, grow! Autumn is such a busy time in the subtropics. It's my spring cleaning time. The heat and humidity of summer is over and I feel energised by the cooler mornings and nights. Around the house, it's time t...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: Anyone for coffee?

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Thursday, May 15, 2008. My husband has been busy feeding and mulching our 40 coffee plants (arabica variety) as they prepare their beans for us to harvest. Rinse them then and lay them out in the sun to dry - we use old flyscreen doors and win...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: The joy of composting

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Friday, June 6, 2008. The joy of composting. Ah composting. so easy to do, yet a mystery to many. They all work and they all provide different types of organic matter for our garden. Lawn clippings are used as a nitrogen layer when fresh, as a...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: June 2008

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Sunday, June 29, 2008. The end of the North Pole - Transition Town musings. The north pole will probably be gone in three years. Gone in three years. I often feel like I'm in a Dr Who episode. The masses are brainwashed into believing ever...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: Hot water from the sun

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Saturday, May 17, 2008. Hot water from the sun. Well, we now have solar hot water. well almost, still heating off the booster at the moment because we needed to get the sparky back today to FIX IT! But soon we shall our water heated by the sun!

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: Garden of Eatin'

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Thursday, July 17, 2008. We've been living in our place for three years now. It was an establishing organic farm when we moved here and it was about eight years old. What affects what out there? For example, tall trees and overplanting has lea...

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil: A local co-operative

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This Simple Life - poweringdown for peak oil. One household's quest for a simple, secure, yet abundant life in the context of energy descent, climate change, and economic uncertainty. Using Permaculture as a tool for social change to a more sustainable way of life. Thursday, July 3, 2008. I'm very excited about tonight. We are hosting the very first meeting of our town's first co-operative. I have no idea how you go about starting a co-op, but I'm looking forward to learning. I look forward to being part...