What is the The Post-Oil Survival Guide?

[Please note this compilation is still in the process of being uploaded so the content of chapters 4 to 8 are still to come, it won't be long...]

The age of petroleum is haltingly coming to an end. Some say it will be here next year, some say in 15 years. But the end will certainly arrive. What does that mean for city dwellers? Imagine no gasoline to truck in foods from Canadian farms or from across the border. No cheap plastic products shipped in from other countries. No fuel to get from one end of the city to the other, by car or transit. What if water stops running in our pipes and electricity gets rationed to a minimum, or is blacked out for good?

The inevitable future for urban citizens entails producing and preserving our own food, heating our homes with woodstoves using renewable materials, and converting single family homes into multiple family dwellings as we empty apartment buildings and highrises. Building outhouses and composting toilets, making our own natural remedies, and reusing all materials and waste available.

This guide is a detailed, comprehensive manual for converting cities into self-reliant, sustainable communities. Here, instructions are for Toronto (Canada) but can be applied to any city with a temperate climate. Read on, and arm yourselves with information and skills that are on the brink of extinction, as we ourselves may be without adapting quickly, wisely, and sustainably.

Start reading from the beginning...

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