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Bobby Alonso
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- Rocklin, CA
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- Hometown:
- Rocklin
- About Me:
- I am still an infant in the world of the peak-oil aware. Since my first exposure almost a year ago, I have taken the first steps necessary to enjoy a more sustainable life.
My wife initially thought I was crazy and she still gives me the patient smile once in awhile, but she is coming around. We are raising three children and I would like to give them something other than my memories of the good old days. Before I can teach them, however, I have much to learn myself.
Something inside has always told me I belonged in a different time... that my life was too easy. I would often daydream about living a pre-industrial life and really working for survival instead of just slipping into a soporific existence, hooked up to an IV of oil-subsidized convenience. I think that the challenges ahead will bring out a potential in me that I have long felt was there but for which I never provided an outlet.
- What I'm doing about Peak Oil:
- About a year ago I sold my wife's Jeep, gave her my car, and started walking to the Amtrak station to get to work. It gives me about three miles of walking a day (for which I am very grateful) and keeps me out of traffic congestion. I had no idea how badly commuting by car was affecting me until I stopped. I now have more patience to address things which truly matter.
Around town I mostly walk or bike and have been slowly encouraging my wife to do the same. I dropped myself from my car's insurance policy to disourage its use.
Recently I put together a decent amount of food storage and began to cultivate vegetables and strawberries in a couple 4'x8' raised beds. I know nothing of gardening and growing my own food, but thankfully there is a truly vast amount of information available. I hope to plant fruit trees sometime this year (or next year if I find that the appropriate time has passed).
Instead of spending my free time playing online videogames I have been enjoying some reading like The Long Emergency, The Road, and the Foxfire series. It is just a beginning, but the more information I find the more empowered I feel.
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