Shelton Relocalization (WA)

Energy Trust Better Living Show

molfamily — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:07:52 -0800

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Clackamas County Peak Oil

Joining the Running on Empty caucus

DickMcManus — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:11:42 -0800

Joining the ROE caucuses

We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.

To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our caucus.

We request you comment on our below listed platform statements.

1. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels.

2. Population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), atmospheric destabilization, biological/species decline, and natural resource depletion.

3. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.

4. We need a US Constitutional amendment defining a corporation as not a natural person and therefore, the rights to equal protection under the 14th Amendment do not apply.

5. Whereas, We the Democratic party) think, based on evidence accumulated since these two elections, that the last two Presidential elections were won by the Democratic Party candidate. In 2000, the US Supreme Court stole the election by stopping the recount and in both 2000 and 2004, the Republican Party stole the election by intentional misconduct and illegal acts, therefore be it resolve that the election laws need to be enforced.

I came up with the idea of this caucus after reading the following books, The Party's Over and Powerdown by Richard Heinberg, The Long Emergency by James Kunstler, and Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann.

Cut and past onto a search engine to visit our websites:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyDemocratCaucusWA

and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyCaucusDemocratsUSA

my N&V newsletters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose
my book (a draft) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/

Sustainable Orcas Island (WA)

A Proper Connection to Food

David Strongman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:32:53 -0700

Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - APPLE Shasta

Micro Farming

JMartinUSN — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:54:04 -0800

My wife and I owned a tree farm 17 years ago. This type of farming was very hard, yet rewarding. We supported many families with our business. The spotted owl issue put us out of operation. I lost most of my work assets.

During our time on the tree farm, and subsequent move to my parent's farm near the Canadian border, we developed and refined skills that we have not forgotten.

Raising poultry for meat and eggs.
Raising goats for milk and meat.
Gardening (so so).
Subsistence hunting (yes with guns...) and fishing.

Farm engineering, heavy equipment care and feeding.
Welding and chainsaw carpentry.

With this skill we are trying to move towards French Intensive Micro Farming.
This really is just a fancy term for growing a lot of food using small tracts of land. Feeding my family is very important. I am convinced that the food system in America will collapse when energy becomes an expensive commodity.

My ultimate goals are to get my house and land paid off quickly, and get in a position where I can do the following:

1. Work my job as long as possible after peak oil
2. Develop a small communal structure with my neighbors and people up and down the rural corridor I live in, by using agriculture to pull everyone together.
3. Learn to live in a low energy world and still get the water pumped, field plowed, grass cut, wood chopped, food cooked.

I want to network with people in the Silverdale, WA who are trying to microfarm.

Shelton Relocalization (WA)

Green House Construction

JMartinUSN — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:07:42 -0800

Sustainable agriculture/aquaculture has been my goal for several years. My family and I have spent our first winter with our green house.

This is a step by step procedure of my engineering and construction.

http://www.freewebs.com/green_house_experiment/

Shelton Relocalization (WA)

Shelton Relocalization (WA)

Anne Scott — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:54:38 -0800

For more information about Shelton Relocalization, please contact the Coordinator, Anne Scott, by email at amscott@hctc.com.