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Reading "Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller"

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Written by Rooperstar on 7 June, 2010
Learn to live with less and doing less that consumes resources.
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This book, by a former chief economist of CIBC, is facinating if somewhat depressing. Anybody interesting in profiting from the upcoming and permanent surge in oil prices would be well advised to read this book. At least you can make some money out of an economic armageddon that you won't be able to stop anyway.

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Top 5 huh? Where to start

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Written by Rooperstar on 18 May, 2010
top 5 things we need to change to save the world - JOIN THIS CHANGE AND THEN BLOG ABOUT IT!
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Off the top of my head here are my thoughts:(Please don't read this if you are overly politically correct it's just my point of view - and some opinions are liable to change with time.)

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Learn to live with less and doing less that consumes resources.

Written by Rooperstar on 18 May, 2010
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Degrowth is coming it is just a matter of when and how ready we are for it. Running for the hills isn't the solution as that takes us backwards, we have to learn how to live in these cities, in this populous environments that we have created, but without the resources that we've grown so sadly accustomed to.

For instance I am changing the way that I look at my clothes. I want stylish and comfy clothes but I am no longer going to bring dyed cotton halfway around the world to save you guys from seeing my beer-gut. I'm going to source and support locally produced, sustainable clothiers and if they don't exist I'm going to start to create a market for one.

I am also going to tele-commute more and cycle when I can. Roll on summer.

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