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It's called 'Survival Acres Blog' 

 Two quotes:

… Part of gearing up, is gearing yourself up. The human body was not intended to sit in a cubicle and type on computer screens for months on end. This type of sedentary lifestyle is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. Get up and get moving. Get that body active, daily.

And:

… On the economics – get out of debt asap. You cannot do this fast enough. Collapse will NOT protect you from the creditors, or a debtors prison camp. Don’t even risk it. Do whatever it takes and clear out your debts. Simplify, reduce and downgrade if you have to – everything. Houses, land, jobs, cars, consolidate bills and get rid of superflous junk and simplify your life as fast as you can.

Check out this weblog! It covers a very broad range of topics and is centered around the subject of crash survival, and offers a lot of practical advice. I have to agree on most of his pessimistic future predictions, which are pretty dark and leave little doubt about what is coming up, who is to suffer and who are to benefit (the usual suspects). Then again, although the weblog is obviously written with great passion and holds much truth, I still think it tries to cover everything from a material point of view. As for me, I think there's far more to the upcoming crisis than resource depletion and the global rise of fascism; in my view the entire 'crisis' is a thing that has been carefully and secretly prepared for centuries; as such it's purely occult, in a black sense. I really believe we have more options than being slaves to the System or a marginal existance as destitute and desperate fugitives outside The Zone. Ultimately, and primarily, this battle is spiritual. We have to take sides, and remember who we really are. The only way to defeat darkness is by spreading LIGHT. If we allow ourselves to be obscured by fear we will be complicit to the dark side.

Ugh. More of this later.

Nice article on Energybulletin about mobilizing otherwise socially and agriculturally dead suburbs into building community gardens:

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So, not all is doom & gloom. Besides,

“Political independence and the ability to engage in society has a lot to do with from what position of autonomy do we stand. And if we stand totally dependent on a one or two or three day food supply chain we don't really have any position of political autonomy.”
— David Holmgren, Permaculture co-orginator (quote taken from greening the apocalypse)

And:

"I think that growing food, along with rebuilding community (to counter the individualisation and social atomisation faced in this corporate-driven society), are some of the most important and subversive activities we can do today." 

Ah, a call for subversion! I wonder how long it takes to get permaculture on the CIA black list.  After all, people enjoying themselves, making friends, exchanging knowledge and food, and dropping out of the System is not quite The Plan, is it. It's subversion after all, and that means:

"Subversion refers to an attempt to overthrow structures of authority, including the state. It is an overturning or uprooting." (Wikipedia)

So, in fact, permaculture is an act of terrorism! *gasp*

(Then again, how on earth are suburbians of all nations ever going to survive Peak Oil, a Housing Crash and a Dollar Collapse except by getting together and turning the place into productive community gardens? Nobody else is coming to save them…)