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The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Science Snippets: Connecting War with Climate Change The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully You Can’t Make This Shit Up – […]
The Bulletin: July 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: July 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. CO2 is Not Good for Your Health! – by Ugo Bardi Peak Shale Amid Maximum Pessimism Climate Change: An Unwelcome Future – Ecosophia Understanding the Electricity Grid: How It Works, Its Key […]
Homesteading: A Journey of Self-Sufficiency
Homesteading: A Journey of Self-Sufficiency It doesn’t take 40 acres, mule and a plow to start Apple Trees on our farm, April 2024 Homesteading (or “Farmsteading”) is a journey of self-sufficiency, and a path that may or may not lead to a life off-the-grid. It’s about building or rebuilding a home and/or farm, and learning […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXI–A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXI Mexico (1988). Photo by author. A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies Today I’m sharing a conversation with others via the Comments section for a post on the website Zerohedge — as well as a preamble to the conversation to set the context for my part in the conversation. The article […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI–Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI May 24, 2021 Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial Another quick thought on our impending energy cliff situation and comment on an article suggesting overconsumption is our greatest threat and that we can be happy without it. This is an excellent article. The threats […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4 How Much Food Can You Fit? It’s a long article. I’m trying to distract you with cute Corgi pictures. A Word on Self-Sufficiency Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?” It gets […]
Easier said than done: National self-sufficiency in a changed world
Easier said than done: National self-sufficiency in a changed world In the wake of a rapidly evolving realignment of the world trading system resulting from the economic equivalent of World War III, President Joe Biden last week took the first of what are likely to be many steps toward building greater self-sufficiency for the United States. […]
Do This If You Want to Be Self-Sufficient
Do This If You Want to Be Self-Sufficient
Meet the seed-saving couple living entirely off the land (except for salt)
Meet the seed-saving couple living entirely off the land (except for salt) Kay and Ngaio Te Rito check the Pukekohe Long Keeper onion crop in the main seed garden. You won’t find anyone in Kotare Village who doesn’t have brown hands. It’s not because they’re out in the sun all day or that they don’t […]
Mexico to Stop Exporting Oil in 2023 in Self-Sufficiency Quest
Mexico to Stop Exporting Oil in 2023 in Self-Sufficiency Quest Octavio Romero, CEO of PEMEX, speaks during an interview. (Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg) Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market. Petroleos Mexicanos, the […]
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change This weekend marks the beginning of COP26. After being delayed for nearly a year because of COVID, diplomats, scientists, corporate lobbyists, NGOs, students, demonstrators, corporations, heads of state, and many, many other invited and uninvited guests are already making their way to Glasgow Scotland for what has been […]
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse No matter how self-sufficient you become Photo by Roger Darnell on Unsplash “By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” — Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005) People […]
5 Winter Homestead Tips To Help You Prepare
5 Winter Homestead Tips To Help You Prepare It’s easy to decide to create a homestead, however, the ways in which we go about it can be difficult. But here are a few tips to help you as winter approaches if you want to live on a homestead or improve your self-reliance. Even though things […]
Harvest at Chez Cog
HARVEST AT CHEZ COG It became obvious to Mrs. Cog and I by early February of this year (2020) that the next phase of socioeconomic crumble/chaos was being implemented both here in the USA as well as throughout the world. The rabbit hole just got deeper. Or more accurately, the deeper rabbit hole was just […]
“We’re All Born Hunters” – Americans Turn To Hunting Game Amid Pandemic Food Shortage Fears
“We’re All Born Hunters” – Americans Turn To Hunting Game Amid Pandemic Food Shortage Fears The slowdown or even the shuttering of meat processing plants due to coronavirus outbreaks has led to meat shortages and soaring food inflation. Supermarket chain Kroger reported Friday that it has put “purchase limits” on ground beef and fresh pork at some of its […]
