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January 3, 2010 - Kitchen Permaculture Online Workshop - How to use permaculture design to create ecological, economical, resilient, and socially just household food systems. Details, workshop outline, tuition -- HTML | PDF

Prairie Rose Permaculture - Lifestyle design for the 21^st century that meets the challenges of peak oil, peak food, climate instability, and economic irrationality - my new permaculture practice, offering online permaculture education worldwide and design consulting in the Oklahoma area.

March 17, 2009: New Printable Flyer - What to do in an extreme civil emergency. PDF version. This flyer is customized for Oklahoma City. Here is a rich text version that you can edit to customize the flyer for your own local situation, wherever you are. RTF version

Hohenwald Local Food - text of some background info I prepared last year for the Financial Permaculture meeting in Hohenwald, Tennessee.

November 3, 2008: 20 Resilient Responses for Troubled Economic Times - act now to protect your household from the triple threats of peak oil, climate instability, and economic irrationality. PDF, please feel free to make copies to give to friends, families, or to leave in public literature racks.

October 3, 2008: Mutual Aid of Oklahoma City - a page dedicated to the accumulating resources relating to our Plan C for OKC permaculture pre-design of a contingency plan for collapse of the economic, energy, and food distribution systems in central Oklahoma - local, grassroots household and neighborhood disaster preparations. Brainstorming charts from our Sept 20, 2008 workshop.

September 22, 2008: Permaculture songs! New lyrics for traditional tunes that teach permaculture ideas.

September 6, 2008: This year I am one of the instructors with the Barking Frogs Permaculture Online Permaculture Design Course. Cycle 13 is starting soon and runs through the spring. For an example of what students learn to do, see my permaculture design report, the "Gatewood Urban Homestead".

August 8, 2008: Gatewood Urban Homestead: City living that meets the challenges of peak oil, climate instability, and economic irrationality. I have completed the permaculture design for my house near downtown Oklahoma City. It is 185 pages, with maps and indices. You can buy a copy as a PDF download, for $10.00.

June 30, 2008: Plan C for OKC planning workshop, September 20, 2008 in OKC.

June 23, 2008: Two value priced/high return energy conservation innovations: the Chest Refrigerator and the On-Off Switch for an Electric Water Heater.

June 20, 2008: The Bulgar Bugle! My latest website, "supporting the sustainable, just, and frugal kitchen." Our motto: Always Make Extra Bulgar. All things bulgarish and seitanish.

June 17, 2008: Printable flyers to promote sustainability, frugality, and community resilience. Download, print, copy, or send as email attachments, html and pdf versions.

Summary charts for energy use, 2003-2007 , illustrating the reduction in BTU use and cost savings/return on investment as a result of the Extreme Green Renovation of our Craftsman bungalow in Oklahoma City, chart updated to include 2007 statistics..

Keeping warm in a winter emergency . Newly revised and improved. For winter emergency situations, including information on what to do in case of utility cut-offs or prolonged power outages during the winter. Make copies and give to your friends!

November 13, 2007: 2008 Winter Flyer , Managing Winter Energy Bills. . Lots of ideas for reducing your winter energy bills.

June 25, 2007: How to stay comfortable and safe in the hot summer , PDF file suitable for printing and copying. Ideas for folks who want to keep cool without using air conditioning. Note: this flyer is being distributed in central Oklahoma, and thus is climate specific. However, much of the info will work in other areas.

June 18, 2007: Political satire from your Editor: Dear America, by Osama bin Laden, and Dear Oklahoma Politicians, by Osama bin Laden . PDF documents you can copy and distribute! To make it easy to turn them into postcards, here are PDF's in postcard format: Dear America postcard ! Dear Oklahoma Politicians postcard . And for folks outside of the state of Oklahoma, we have Dear Congress including a postcard version, suitable for copying. Postcard versions are a standard postcard format, four on an 8-1/2 x 11 page. HTML Version

June 18, 2007: Summary charts for energy use, 2003-2006 , illustrating the 50% reduction in BTU use as a result of the Extreme Green Renovation of our Craftsman bungalow in Oklahoma City.

Mass Transit Talking Points , April 25, 2007

Welcome speech to the Oklahoma Sustainability Network annual conference, April 21, 2007

Keeping warm in a winter emergency January 12, 2007

30 Days Towards Sustainability - a new series highlighting practical actions people can do to move towards a more sustainable lifestyle

Keynote Address , September 15, 2006, at the Oklahoma Sustainability Network annual conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Extreme Green Makeover in Oklahoma City - details of the on-going "extreme green makeover of our house in Oklahoma City (a 1929 Craftsman bungalow).

Summer 2006 flyer (the 2006 version of the "keeping cool in the summer" page)

Keeping cool in the summer , without risking a heart attack when opening your electricity bill.

Peak Oil/Running On Empty Information Resource Directory

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