From the Book - Regular Print
Part 1 Where Are We? 1 --
1 Getting Out the Boats: A Primer on Hard Times 3 --
2 Actions as Activism: The New Home Front and the Riot for Austerity 19 --
3 Time to Pick Up Your Hat 39 --
Part 2 Money Changes Everything 53 --
4 Meet the Real Economy 55 --
Part 3 Real Family Values - Facing the Future Together 85 --
6 Talking Population With the Old Men 87 --
7 Permaculture of Family 107 --
8 Raising Kids in a New World: Family Life and Education 127 --
Part 4 Home Economics, Home-Land Security 143 --
9 Little House in the Suburbs 145 --
10 Beauty and Necessity of the Low-Energy Home 165 --
Part 5 Food and Health: The New Basics 179 --
11 Bountiful Home: Grow and Preserve What You Need 181 --
12 Hand that Stirs the Pot, Rules the World 197 --
14 Abundance, Democracy, Joy 231 --
Appendix 1 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Difficult Times 243 --
Appendix 2 Best Books About Nearly Everything 257.
pt. 2. Money changes everything
pt. 3. Real family values : facing the future together
pt. 4. Home economics, home-land security
pt. 5. Food and health : the new basics