The publicity for this site is just about to go up a level: a press release is about to go out to local media, so fingers crossed there will be more people visiting this site and adding thoughts and ideas. The press release is also going back to the wonderful admin people behind Relocalize.net, who are keen to see if it can be added to the publicity kit (with de-localised edits) for other sites to use.

A little bit of hindsight has made me realise that the questions in this site's forum can be a bit daunting to add to. By breaking the forum into these 10 categories I'd hoped they might be easier to think over and contribute. That includes adding questions as well as answers.

This week I discovered there are now more books being written about surviving and thriving in a Post Carbon world, which is excellent news. One that caught my eye is The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times by Albert Bates. Has anyone read this? Or is there anything similar you can recommend? There are many additional titles in the Resources and Publications section of this site as well. I'll be going through this section and adding what I can summarise under the topics in this site's forum where it can be locally applied.

So I'm wondering if anyone has read any of these books or articles or found any other websites that can provide the information we are looking for, ie practical strategies to establish alternatives to services and products that will cease to be available. Any summaries of information from these sources are welcome under the 10 forum categories, or you may want to add your own thoughts or add a new category.