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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times | 
 enlarge | Author: Albert Bates
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 296860
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 236
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0865715688
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7916
EAN: 9780865715684
ASIN: 0865715688
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook provides useful practical advice for preparing your family and community to make the transition.
This book takes a positive, upbeat, and optimistic view of "the Great Change," promoting the idea that it can be an opportunity to redeem our essential interconnectedness with nature and with each other. The many rifts that have grown up since oil became the world's prime commodity can be mended: between cities and their food sources; the design of the suburban-built environment and its car-oriented sprawl; runaway greenhouse warming, and the clearing of forests and toxification of rivers, oceans, and land. Topics covered include:
Rebuilding civilization
Changing your needs
Water and waste disposal
Energy and transportation
Equipment and tools
Food storage and first aid
Also including lighthearted, playful recipes-some using basic, wholesome foods, some illustrating food growing or preservation, and all emphasizing organic, flavorful, and locally grown produce that can readily substitute one for another-this book is about having your catastrophe and eating it too.
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 Food for Thought June 20, 2008
I loved this book. It was fun to read and taught me things I didn't know. It was interesting for me and I enjoyed the writer's style of writing. I am not going to run out and start composting and growing my own food tomorrow, but this book gives the reader a lot of food for thought. Albert Bates seems to be one old hippie that I would like very much. Regards, Keith Renick, Peachtree City, Ga.
 Very Good though most relevant for USA April 28, 2008
Innovative, thorough and readable with clear diagrams and instructions. i had hoped the recipes would offer more low-energy input options though there are some very good lists of suitable substitutes for imported ingredients. A good book for those far-sighted enough to realise the need (at least for backup) to provide for oneself and one's own community first.
A necessary "cookbook" for every household January 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is beyond words. Finally I have found a book that I feel I have written, a person who sees the possible futures as I do. He actually states in his writing the theories set by many of how we cause our own future by merely deciding it will come. This is, of course, something I greatly believe in. HOWEVER, we must take into account that if the masses continue to act as they do with out reverence for what their actions are causing, then we are walking towards impending doom. Every action has a reaction or as many have said before me, every cause has an effect. When we walk mindlessly along the path and we do not contemplate our effects then they are free to wreak havoc as naturally drawn. If we decide our possible fates, and make an active change to steer away from a damaging future, as is one possibility described in this book, then we make a chance shot for a "happy ending" or I guess you would say in this case, no ending.
Please, PLEASE, read this book and/or any like it. Know the possible future and take action to protect yourself from it, while contemplating a better way we can live. The age of Oil is over, it's time to accept it and move towards the coming age as the dawn reaches Aquarius.
A Mind-Opening Treasure Trove September 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really love this book. It approaches the end of civilization as we know it with a big, humorous, smart smile on its face. It presents such a range of ideas and facts and little-known powerful knowledge, and so much uncommon "common sense" that it manages to make me feel good about the coming mess (the "Great Change"). According to the author, Albert Bates, after the "Crude Awakening," Step 1 is to "Rebuild Civilization." By book's end, you'll reach the 12th step -- "Utopia by Morning." Lots of interesting, eclectic sidebars. Plus, the recipes are really excellent.
Excellent intro level book, full of useful advice August 17, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is great intro to all the issues relating to peak oil and our other looming crisis; water, food, transportation, economics, etc., with hints, tips, sidebars, recipes, quotes, so it's not really heavy going. In a fairly non-apocalyptic way, it covers all sorts of stuff, for example: bug out bags, various alternative fuels, lists of things to stockpile, ecovillages and community, humanure, chart of bean cooking times, a first aid guide. Nothing in a huge amount of depth - it's just one book; but mostly practical and down to earth information, and while I don't agree with everything (he's too optimistic about ethanol, and that compost tea will be anaerobic) on the whole it seems balanced and accurate.
For anyone who's just coming to learn about peak oil, especially in the early panic stages, I particularly recommend this book; there are so many books that will just scare and overwhelm you, while this book has a practical and less we're-all-doomed approach. If you're a peak oil old-timer and have been simplifying your life for a while it is probably all stuff you know already.
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