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Sophie Smith
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Evan Jun. 24, 2008.

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Started Jun. 29, 2007

Anaerobic Digesters
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Started this discussion. Last reply by PeakOilBoy Mar. 5, 2008.

 

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Hometown:
Eugene, OR
About Me:
If I could have the vocation of my choosing, I would either be a farmer or a teacher of urban gardening. Alas, I am neither of these things, yet! I live in the Pacific Northwest and food security and sustainability are my passions. I believe that local (food, business, governance, resource use, etc.) is better and far more sane than the complicated, fragile and completely unsustainable system of infrastructure, production and distribution most humans currently depend on.

I love to read and I enjoy photography.

I'm married.

I spend my free-time re-crafting and re-purposing items I find.

I care about Peak Oil and I wish most of my friends did too.
What I'm doing about Peak Oil:
I use a bicycle or my feet for 95% of my transportation needs, grow some of my own food (I recently completed a community gardener certification series), have a blog dedicated to the promotion of local food, local economies and local enterprise, and I buy more than half of my food from local producers. I just located an excellent local source for milk and now I just have to figure out how to make my own yogurt (I'm hopelessly addicted).

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Running the Numbers

Peak oil was always an inevitability because petroleum is a finite resource. One has to wonder, however, how much we could have flattened that bell curve of production and consumption if we'd managed our resources more responsibly and not been in such a hurry to trash the planet for our own convenience.

This page http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7 displays images from a recent art installation in Seattle by Ch… Continue

Posted on June 11, 2007 at 9:37am —

Sophie Smith

Living with less may make us happier

I expect that a world with a lot less oil will also be a world with a lot less stuff. Without the means to produce, package and transport an endless bounty of goodies, we're going to have to acquaint ourselves with the notion that less is more. Like it or not. I found an interesting video the other day (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/93 ) the premise of which is that endless choice takes a negative toll on our psyches. H… Continue

Posted on June 8, 2007 at 9:50pm —

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At 4:47pm on June 8, 2007, PeakOilBoy said…
Sophie, it's up to us!

The way t get people connected is to tell them about the site and have them join up...
At 4:52pm on June 7, 2007, PeakOilBoy said…
Hi Sophie!

Please contribute to this solutions place... we need lots of great minds!
 
 

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