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The Industrial Food System Depends To Its Peril On Cheap Oil

Pumping Gas

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://nationalfork NULL.com/?p=1522)

With a gallon of gasoline in America now averaging almost $4.00, the topic of oil dependence is timely.

Cheap oil and other fossil fuels have helped create the modern American economy, and to a lesser …

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The Survival Value Of Oral And Written Traditions, By K.B.

Oral Tradition

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://survivalblog NULL.com/2012/03/the-survival-value-of-oral-and-written-traditions-by-kb NULL.html)

The importance of keeping a curriculum in your plans

In a TEOTWAWKI (http://www NULL.survivalblog NULL.com/glossary NULL.html#TEOTWAWKI) community, the lifestyle would be more or less the traditional one known to all

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Spread Reckoning: US Suburbs Face Twin Perils Of Climate Change And Peak Oil [Excerpt], By Maggie Koerth-Baker

Suburban Blight

Reprinted from Scientific American (http://www NULL.scientificamerican NULL.com/article NULL.cfm?id=merriam-kansas-peak-oil-and-climate-change&print=true)

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/Before-Lights-Go-Out-Conquering/dp/0470876255) (John Wiley &

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What’s The Big Deal About “Resilience”?, By Torie Bosch

Resilience 2

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.slate NULL.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/sander_van_der_leeuw_on_resilience_in_the_roman_empire_prehistoric_australia_and_ecology_ NULL.single NULL.html)

On March 23, Future Tense—a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that explores emerging technologies, policy, and society—will hold a live event in

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Barack Obama Prepares For War Footing, By Edwin Black

Obama War

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.huffingtonpost NULL.com/edwin-black/obama-national-defense-resources-preparedness_b_1359715 NULL.html)

Last Friday, March 16, President Barack Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, …

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Top Five Regrets Of The Dying, By Susie Steiner

Kneeling In Contemplation

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying)

There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at

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Are We Running Out Of Water? By Brian Richter

Water-Pump-In-Desert

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://newswatch NULL.nationalgeographic NULL.com/2012/03/14/are-we-running-out-of-water/)

Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time.

With that nefarious event the Rio Grande joined a growing list of once-mighty rivers that …

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Why The American Empire Was Destined To Collapse, Nomi Prins Interviews Morris Berman

Collapsed Washington DC

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.alternet NULL.org/world/154453/why_the_american_empire_was_destined_to_collapse/)

Several years after the Wall Street-ignited crisis began, the nation’s top bank CEOs (who far out-accumulated their European and other international counterparts) continue to hobnob with the president at campaign dinners where each …

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Getting Real About It: Meeting The Psychological And Social Demands Of A World In Distress, By Susanne Moser, Ph.D.

Climate Change Psych Effects

ONLINE PDF (http://www NULL.susannemoser NULL.com/documents/Moser_chapterfinaldraft_accepted NULL.pdf)

Unedited, unformatted chapter forthcoming in Gallagher et al. Sage Reference Handbook of Environmental Leadership, Sage, accepted for publication, made available at www.susannemoser.com with permission from Sage.

 

INTRODUCTION

 

With

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Walking And Our Ability To Cope, By Raymond De Young

THE BOOK OF ELI

Reprinted from ENERGY BULLETIN (http://energybulletin NULL.net/node/52438)

Photo: “The Book of Eli”

Raymond De Young (Associate Professor of Environmental Psychology and Planning at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan) sent me a recent

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