The jungle book

This book, written by Pedro Prieto can be downloaded (Spanish) in the web site Energy crisis.

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Mushrooms

These are the four types of mushrooms they collected in the Canadian forest.

Common Chanterelle

King Boletus

Corel mushroom

Cauliflower fungus

Transition Towns

An environmental and social movement that tries to equip communities for the challenges of peak oil and climate change. A movement to try to reduce our dependence on oil, to help us achieve a self-sufficent life, to become resilients. It was born in Kinsale, Irlanda and spread to England, where Totnes became in 2005-2006 the first demo transition town.

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Cohousing

Cohousing is a community composed of private homes that share several facilites. It is owned and managed by the residentes, who share activities sush as cooking, laundry, child care, gardening....

It facilitates interaction and deeper relationships among the neighbors, for social, economic and enviornmental benefits.

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Transition Town - Totnes

Totnes is the stardard bearer o the Transition Towns. It heads this movement. They aim to diminish their dependence on fossil fuel dependency, to reduce their ecological footpring, to develop a sense of community in which cooperation values should prevail, to achieve food independence, in short to become a resilient community.

Their plan to achieve it, has its horizon line in 2030. You can read it here.

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Masanobu Fukoaka

Masanobu Fukoaka brought the 'do nothing' (wu wei) principle of taoism to the agriculture.

His philosophy has a lot in common with permaculture. Although he didn't consider himself part of this movement, he did persue very simmilar objectives: taking care of the Earth and the human beings. Healing the soil to avoid innecesary work to the farmers that in many cases is also agressive with the environment.

His ideas are explained in the book "The one straw revolution".

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Here you can also find an interview to Masanobu Fukoaka.

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Flour mill

I believe there is a large majority of Westerners that have forgotten that the flour comes from the cereal grains that must be grinded. Here you can find some drawing of the classical handmade flour mills.

This one is more modern, but for those who would like to be prepared for an eventual blackout, I think it is the perfect gift. 

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Nendo Dango

Mater Fukoaka developed a method to reforest arid lands. It is based in protecting the seeds with clay balls of about one inch, that spread in a natural way along the land, will allow the seed to germinate with the first rains. It is the nendo dango.

In a world where the climate change is turning into desert large extensions, this could be a way to create new forest.

From this method, fundation + trees has writen a manual to help reforest arid areas of Spain that are becoming deserts.

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Bill Mollison

The Australian  researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist Bill Mollison is considered to be 'the father of permaculture'. He wrote down the main principles of permaculture in several books:  "Permaculture One", "Permaculture Two", "Introduction to permaculture", "Permaculture, a designer's manual".

You can learn more about his ideas in this video

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Permaculture

Permacultura is a way to understand life. A way to design human habitats that are sustainable, surrounded by nature, where the agricole explotation runs after the nature patterns. There is not an extesive explotation but a production integrated with the environment.

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Emergency kit

If you would like to prepare yourself for an eventual blackout, what would you need?

You can take a look at :

Bug-out bag
Is your family prepared?
Survival kit
Survivalism

In case you need a spreadsheet to calculate what to put in your supply kit you can download it here.

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Homeschooling

There are some countries where teaching your kids from your own house, without daily attendance to a school is legal. There are some others were it is not.

In those countries where it is legal, parents can decide which values will they teach their kids, which information is important for them, which will help them in the future. Teaching the kids from you house is usually called homeschooling. It is a practice proven to develop the creativity and initiative of the kids, agains the traditional systems that are designed to obtain blind obedience and mechanique knowledge.

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Earthship

An earthship is a type of passive solar house made of natural and recycled materials. The homes are primarily constructed to work autonomously and are generally made of earth-filled tires, using thermal massconstruction to naturally regulate indoor temperature. They also usually have their own special natural ventilation system. Earthships are generally Off-the-grid homes, minimizing their reliance on public utilities and fossil fuels.

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Interview to Richard Heinberg

An interview to Richard Heinberg about the world situation, the return to food selfgrowing, selfsufficient houses,  decreasing our fosil fuel dependency...

A farm for the future

A documentary about the future of farms. Places to live far from the fosil fuel dependency.

A farm for the future from Horatiux on Vimeo.