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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times Paperback – October 1, 2006

by Albert Bates (Author)
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  • Paperback: 236 pages
  • Publisher: New Society Publishers; First Edition edition (October 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0865715688
  • ISBN-13: 978-0865715684
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 starsA Readers Digest version of the book I was seeking
By sugarlump on May 28, 2007
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This is a lightweight gloss on an interesting topic. To take just one example, the chapter on food storage does not broach the concept of long-term food storage, which may turn out to be the most important topic of all when surviving a post-petroleum world. Nitrogen purging of containers is not mentioned. CO2 purging is mentioned, but not as a way of stopping oxygen-linked food deterioration, but only as a way of fumigating grains. The need for food-safe containers is mentioned, but an exact discussion of the forms of plastic (HDPE, PP, PETE, LDPE, PVC etc) is not given. The simplest web search gives more information than this book on almost every topic. Another example: a illustration is given of a solar dehydrator, but not the plans to make one, and the diagram of the dehydrator is not even sufficiently labelled so that you'd have some idea of how to make one. Again, turn to the web for proper information. Lastly, people living outside the USA will not be pleased to see everything denominated in inches, Fahrenheit, gallons and pounds. The book is essentially a primer and overview of a lot of topics without any satisfying detail. An appetizer, not a main course, the book is indeed like the "Swiss Army knife" it styles itself as, and like my largely unused Swiss army knife, it's not the tool of choice for any particular need.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent intro level book, full of useful advice
By Lisa VINE VOICE on August 17, 2007
Format: Paperback
This book is great intro to all the issues relating to peak oil and our other looming crisis; water, food, transportation, economics, etc., with hints, tips, sidebars, recipes, quotes, so it's not really heavy going. In a fairly non-apocalyptic way, it covers all sorts of stuff, for example: bug out bags, various alternative fuels, lists of things to stockpile, ecovillages and community, humanure, chart of bean cooking times, a first aid guide. Nothing in a huge amount of depth - it's just one book; but mostly practical and down to earth information, and while I don't agree with everything (he's too optimistic about ethanol, and that compost tea will be anaerobic) on the whole it seems balanced and accurate.

For anyone who's just coming to learn about peak oil, especially in the early panic stages, I particularly recommend this book; there are so many books that will just scare and overwhelm you, while this book has a practical and less we're-all-doomed approach. If you're a peak oil old-timer and have been simplifying your life for a while it is probably all stuff you know already.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEveryone Needs This Book
By Alicia B. Laurel on April 5, 2007
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For many years, friends, fans and even publishers have been asking me for another Living on the Earth. I really, really wish I could have accommodated them. The truth is that I haven't been living communally in an ecovillage, nor have I really been keeping up with innovations in sustainable technology and permaculture. I've been recording and performing original music, caring for my elders in a big city, and writing/illustrating other things that are closer to my actual experience.

Happily, the person most qualified to write the new Living on the Earth has stepped up and written it. That would be Albert Bates, a founding member of the Farm, which is the largest and most influential hippie commune ever, and also Director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology. He travels the world teaching sustainable design, natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology. He's also argued cases before the Supreme Court.

Like Living on the Earth, The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (New Society Publishers, 2006) is eclectic. It can scare the bejesus out of you with worst case scenarios, and then invite you into the kitchen to sample grasshopper quesadillas (if you don't have one hundred grasshoppers, you can substitute locusts, crickets, or corn smut).

Albert's definitely written more of a guy book. He explains with charts how to build things like root cellars, dehydrators, solar cookers and composting systems (now, that's my kind of Prince Charming). He lists what you need in your fallout shelter (I'm pleased to report that musical instruments are included). And he envisions as a benefit of the post-petroleum age, the opportunity for "creative loafing" including "leisurely love-making." (Yes!)

You and everyone you know definitely need this book. Hopefully later rather than sooner, but it's never to soon to be prepared.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific, REadable, and NECESSARY for our world
By Bonnie Neely on April 24, 2007
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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and cookbook by Albert Bates is an intriguing and well constructed look at what every citizen in the oil addicted world should know and begin to move toward if any kind of survival is possible when oil is no longer readily available. Bates begins by giving convincing evidence that the availability of plenty of oil and gas is not in the world's future. But the book is not a dooms day end of the world account. After explaining the supply/demand situation for the world relying mainly on oil and gas as the key source of energy, he then goes on to spend most of the book detailing ways in which the average consumer can begin to do things in a daily way that will make everyone less dependent on petroleum as the main energy source. The book details everything from creating one's own energy supplies to food preparation and storage to the way to save in transportation. The margins of each page of the book contains menus of dishes that help to form a more energy efficient approach to cooking. The book is well written with good explanations of approaches the author feels are key to beginning the change to living in a world without abundant petroleum supplies
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