Archive for the ‘Resiliency’ Category
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Making Your Own Greek Yogurt
27 Dec 2014Updated, Sept 29, 2017 I’ve been making my own yogurt for decades now. I first learned how to do it…
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The Triple Threat
08 Nov 2013“May you live in interesting times.” -Chinese curse I confess, I read too much scary stuff. It started about ten…
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Smiling House and Climate Change
08 Nov 2013It used to be that the first thing people associated with climate change was heat. That was back in the…
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Smiling House and Economic Collapse
07 Nov 2013There are several reasons why there might be a near-term collapse of the global economy. I say ‘might’, because there…
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Smiling House and the End of Oil
02 Nov 2013Before they started fracking the heck out of the landscape, humanity was expected to run out of oil around mid-century.…
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Urban Resilience
17 Aug 2013The disadvantage of living in the city is that there are fewer natural sources of food, water, heat and shelter.…
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Drying Food
03 Aug 2013Years ago, still living in the city but determined to store more than a week’s food in the house, we…
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Warm and Fuzzy Predator Control
01 Aug 2013I warned Gordon before we moved from the city to our little farm to live full time (we had spent…
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Our First Scare
01 Aug 2013About ten years ago, the whole world became alarmed by the prospect of an influenza pandemic, and I found myself…