If one good lesson came out of the last few years - it's that we need to become resilient against economic, climate and energy changes.

Your Plan A should include these 3 easy and cheap to do things:

  • Bikes for Transportation (a powered bike for distances)
  • Secure insulated efficient home.
  • Most Important-A Food Plan - note that stocking up on food will only get you so far. Learning to grow your own food can feed you & your family for a lifetime.

Why Grow Your Own Food?

The quickest explanation - to produce your own food you are also preparing for:

  • Global Climate Change
  • Natural Catastrophes
  • Economic Blips
  • End of Cheap Energy
  • Inflation/Deflation
  • Personal Disruptions

We're presently in an economic disruption. Those of us who are under 60 will most likely experience a Circulatory Ice Age that happens every 3,600 years and is scheduled to begin again in 2010 to 2013. Extreme Cold Weather (Ice Age) in history:

  1. Creates migration of people from areas too cold to survive. It is thought the Dark Ages in Europe were the result of a Mini-ice age.
  2. Ice Ages don't just create ice, they also create drought, flood, heat waves and other extreme weather conditions.
  3. An alternate theory of what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs is that an ice age came upon them suddenly. Not everyone agrees with the asteroid theory since dinosaur bones are buried 300,000 years before the asteroid layer of dust.

The next most likely event is the reduction of gas and oil imports. The U.S. imports 2/3rd of its gas & oil. Several countries are reducing those imports to us as you read this. This complicates the economic disruptions we're experiencing and creates a need for more energy during the Dalton Min. So, we found it best to Kick the Gas Addiction now and find out how to manage under these extreme conditions. We want to use our resources wisely - the proper use of gas & oil right now it to set ourselves up with long term solutions and reduce our need for oil in the future.

Kicking the oil addiction

  • Why? Because the U.S. imports 2/3rds of its gas/oil. While supply decreases from importing countries- increasing demand during the upcoming Dalton Min. years will be when we need it the most unless we change how we do things now.
  • We focused on a few main areas of importance to prepare for what we believe will be a most difficult time in human history. We expect these to get us through the up coming years:
    • Bikes, preferably powered by the 80 mpg motor or electric.
    • Permaculture gardens enhanced with animals, a greenhouse, and short grass paths and lawn. Permaculture is like the Victory Garden on steroids- and without the back breaking work.
    • Reduce needs - by adding insulation, adding as much solar to our system and a source of back up power.

Powering Down your home by making it more efficient is easy:

  • Cover windows with insulating material at night.
  • Add Insulation everywhere (we used HyTech paint additives).
  • Power down electronics- exchange old tvs for LEDs, computer monitors for LEDs, and lights for LEDs. We got rid of our refrig./freezer, are working on getting rid of the washer/dryer system and hung a clothes line and are thinking about a replacement for the dishwasher . . but that would be the last modern comfort to go.

AFTER those household changes have been addressed, then think about the power needed and it can be addressed as alternative types of energy.

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