Depletion and abundance : life on the new home front

Depletion and abundance Life on the new home front

Sharon Astyk

Book - 2008

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Subjects
Cost and standard of living.
Consumer education.
Sustainable living.
Self-reliant living.
Published
Gabriola Island, BC : New Society 2008.
Language
English
Main Author
Sharon Astyk (-)
Physical Description
xiv, 272 p.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780865716148
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Where Are We?
  • 1. Getting Out the Boats: A Primer on Hard Times
  • Time to Get Out Our Boats
  • Facing up to the Future
  • Hurry Up, Please; It's Time
  • Defining Our Terms
  • With What Will We Fix It, Dear Liza, Dear Liza?
  • 2. Actions as Activism: The New Home Front and the Riot for Austerity
  • The Riot for Austerity
  • On the New Home Front
  • Reconsidering Public and Private
  • Women's Work and Political Power
  • The Political is Also the Personal
  • The Power Lines
  • Coming Together on the Home Front
  • The Church Model of Community Building
  • 3. Time to Pick Up Your Hat
  • Pick Up Your Hat
  • Feels Like I'm Dyin' From that Old Used-to-Be
  • The Long-Term Problem of Technological Solutions
  • Not the End of the World
  • The Theory of Anyway
  • Part 2. Money Changes Everything
  • 4. Meet the Real Economy
  • Confronting the Real Economy
  • Self-sufficiency as the Opposite of Poverty
  • Peasant Economics for Everyone
  • Digging for Dollars
  • 5. Making Ends Meet
  • The Problem of Consumption
  • Use-What-You-Have Adaptation
  • Get Out of Debt
  • Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do or Do Without
  • Hang On to Your House
  • Part 3. Real Family Values - Facing the Future Together
  • 6. Talking Population With the Old Men
  • Why Bring Up Population?
  • Trusting Women
  • The Limits of I=PAT
  • Understanding the Demographic Transition
  • The Tragedy of the Bathroom
  • 7. The Permaculture of Family
  • Home Economics and the "Mommy Wars"
  • Husbanding Our Resources
  • This is the Way the World Ends... With Your Brother-in-Law Sleeping on Your Couch
  • 8. Raising Kids in a New World: Family Life and Education
  • I Don't Know How She Does It!
  • Toys are Not Us
  • Childhood in a Changing World
  • School and Energy
  • Part 4. Home Economics, Home-Land Security
  • 9. Little House in the Suburbs
  • Home is Where You are Now
  • Staying Put
  • Buy or Rent?
  • Where to Live?
  • Sufficiency Plan for a Suburban Home
  • 10. The Beauty and Necessity of the Low-Energy Home
  • Why the Lights Go Out and What to Do About It
  • What Life in Our Low-Energy Home Looks Like
  • Part 5. Food and Health: The New Basics
  • 11. The Bountiful Home: Grow and Preserve What You Need
  • The Crazy Lady and the Garden
  • The Bull's-Eye Diet
  • How to Start Your Garden
  • Squirrel Time
  • 12. The Hand that Stirs the Pot, Rules the World
  • It's All About Food
  • Getting Over Picky
  • Food Preservation and Democracy
  • Frugality, Economy, Preparedness
  • How to Eat Cheap
  • 13. Health Care
  • Public Health
  • The Myths of Medicine
  • The Costs and Benefits of Modern Medicine
  • Why Health Care Should Be at the Center of Things
  • The Most Bang for the Health Care Buck
  • The Beginning and the End
  • Part 6. Recompense
  • 14. Abundance, Democracy, Joy
  • Scared? Duh!
  • Abundance
  • Am I Romanticizing Poverty?
  • The One Thing We Did Right
  • Appendix 1. Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Difficult Times
  • Appendix 2. The Best Books About Nearly Everything
  • Index
  • About the Author

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