Post Oil Perth

Post Oil Perth had its first meeting last Saturday. There were 4 of us (I'm out of the shot because I took it!).

Rob (right), who is presently in the US Navy, was visiting Perth on a short stop over. Soon to leave the Navy for civvy life, he's pretty worried about where life in the US might be headed as peak oil heats up (and how to convince his lovely wife to move out with him to the country to grow food!).

Cal (center) had plenty of advice to offer on swaying one's partner by degrees....the condensed version sounded something like this: "Start by suggesting a nice little farm as a 'weekender', then build a shed on it, then when she says she won't live in a shed, show her some house plans to choose from!" Pretty clever, eh?

Cal and his family is setting up a farm down in Dandaragan, and is soon to erect a shed to live in while he builds a house.

Graeme (left) is my partner. We are already living in our shed in Bullsbrook which he is infill-building around us with straw bale.

Over bangers from the barbie, we fleshed out a "cunning plan" to transform Perth into a post oil ready state by 2012.

I will keep you posted on our progress as we go!