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Sixth in a series:

Happy Slaves

The lowly earthworm, slaughtered by the trillions or zillions by chemical, corporate, money lover agriculture, is worth many times the pennies it costs to buy your starter stock, if they are not readily available for free. The profitable organic food producer raises them in controlled conditions to increase their rates of reproduction, foil predators and to prevent their escape. Worms are the cheapest labor you can get for your food crops. They work night and da… Continue

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Do What You Love

Some of us can and sometimes do find work we love in the corporate world. Sometimes the work would not exist except that it has corporate support or subsidy. Often you can do the same or similar work outside a corporate environment. If you have not yet done so, ask yourself how you would spend your productive hours if you did not require pay. How many hours each week would you spend at this activity? A time budget makes more sense than a dollar budget. What… Continue

Third in a series

If we would come out of the great money loving society, Homeland Security begins at our own home. If we are building a house, make it a greenhouse. Should there be a toxic environment outdoors, there can always be fresh air and whole food indoors. If you have a home that is not a greenhouse, add skylights and an attached greenhouse. Such can heat your house on a Winter's day and not be much threatened by toxic or hostile environment outside. Shade screen and vents can be used… Continue

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Once we decide on how much electricity we would want in hard times, we can look at the most practical way to build up a system. Let us say we want to have two-way global communication. We know telephone service could go down for extended periods, so we would be better off with a satellite internet service and perhaps ham radio transceivers or cell phones as back - ups. I like battery back - up systems. Something that could store power enough for my basic needs for a day or… Continue