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Image | Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West
by Chris Martenson

2014 saw the extension of a historic drought across the US West. Croplands withered or were fully abandoned. Water rationing was enforced. Well tables dropped. The price of many vegetables and meats have skyrocketed.

So is an end to the drought in sight?
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West
 by Chris Martenson

2014 saw the extension of a historic drought across the US West. Croplands withered or were fully abandoned. Water rationing was enforced. Well tables dropped. The price of many vegetables and meats have skyrocketed.

So is an end to the drought in sight?
Image | 2014 Year in Review
2014 Year in Review
by David Collum

I have not seen a year in which so many risks—some truly existential—piled up so quickly. Each risk has its own, often unknown, probability of morphing into a destructive force. Groping for a metaphor—I love metaphors and similes—I feel like we’re in the final throes of a geopolitical Game of Tetris as financial and political authorities race to place the pieces correctly. But the acceleration is palpable. The proximate trigger for pain and ultimately a collapse can be small, as anyone who’s ever stepped barefoot on a Lego knows.
2014 Year in Review
 by David Collum

I have not seen a year in which so many risks—some truly existential—piled up so quickly. Each risk has its own, often unknown, probability of morphing into a destructive force. Groping for a metaphor—I love metaphors and similes—I feel like we’re in the final throes of a geopolitical Game of Tetris as financial and political authorities race to place the pieces correctly. But the acceleration is palpable. The proximate trigger for pain and ultimately a collapse can be small, as anyone who’s ever stepped barefoot on a Lego knows.
Image | 6 Winter Tricks That Keep Livestock Water From Freezing
6 Winter Tricks That Keep Livestock Water From Freezing
by JW

A great exploration of the many ways to keep fresh water available for livestock in the winter.

http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/12/08/6-winter-tricks-that-keep-livestock-water-from-freezing/

6 Winter Tricks That Keep Livestock Water From Freezing
 by JW

A great exploration of the many ways to keep fresh water available for livestock in the winter.

http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/12/08/6-winter-tricks-that-keep-livestock-water-from-freezing/

Image | How To Properly Prepare A Water Barrel
How To Properly Prepare A Water Barrel
by JW

Learn the basics of prepping and using a water storage barrel.  Great tips and info in the following article.

http://www.thegoodsurvivalist.com/how-to-properly-prepare-a-water-barrel-and-water-for-emergency-storage/2/

How To Properly Prepare A Water Barrel
 by JW

Learn the basics of prepping and using a water storage barrel.  Great tips and info in the following article.

http://www.thegoodsurvivalist.com/how-to-properly-prepare-a-water-barrel-and-water-for-emergency-storage/2/

Image | How to Care for Chickens in the Winter
How to Care for Chickens in the Winter
by Phil Williams

When I talk to people about my chickens during the winter, many people ask me if I have to bring them inside over the winter. Of course the thought of my red birds running around making a mess, roosting on my couch, scratching the floor, and the manure would be horrible! Believe it or not there are people that keep chickens inside like a dog. They use chicken diapers. I know it’s crazy. Anyway, chickens are much more cold-hardy than most people think. I think it is actually cruel to provide heat for your chickens. It doesn’t let the chickens become acclimated to the cold properly. They are definitely not meant to be inside.
How to Care for Chickens in the Winter
 by Phil Williams

When I talk to people about my chickens during the winter, many people ask me if I have to bring them inside over the winter. Of course the thought of my red birds running around making a mess, roosting on my couch, scratching the floor, and the manure would be horrible! Believe it or not there are people that keep chickens inside like a dog. They use chicken diapers. I know it’s crazy. Anyway, chickens are much more cold-hardy than most people think. I think it is actually cruel to provide heat for your chickens. It doesn’t let the chickens become acclimated to the cold properly. They are definitely not meant to be inside.
Image | Ready Or Not…
Ready Or Not…
by Chris Martenson

If risk has been taken from where it belongs and instead shuffled onto central bank balance sheets, or allowed to be hidden by new and accommodating accounting tricks, has it really disappeared? In my world, risk is like energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed or transferred. 

If reality no longer has a place at the table — such as when policy makers act as if the all-too-temporary shale oil bonanza is now a new permanent constant — then the discussions happening around that table are only accidentally useful, if ever, and always delusional.
Ready Or Not…
 by Chris Martenson

If risk has been taken from where it belongs and instead shuffled onto central bank balance sheets, or allowed to be hidden by new and accommodating accounting tricks, has it really disappeared? In my world, risk is like energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed or transferred. 

If reality no longer has a place at the table — such as when policy makers act as if the all-too-temporary shale oil bonanza is now a new permanent constant — then the discussions happening around that table are only accidentally useful, if ever, and always delusional.
Image | Pond Planning
Pond Planning
by Phil Williams

There is a lot to consider when planning for your pond installation. It is a good idea to thoroughly plan you pond installation prior to the machines arriving. I personally like to measure, get the levels, and paint the site to see for myself what the pond will look like. Often times a design on paper doesn’t survive this process. You will often find that the pond will be different in real life than you were thinking it would be on paper.
Pond Planning
 by Phil Williams

There is a lot to consider when planning for your pond installation. It is a good idea to thoroughly plan you pond installation prior to the machines arriving. I personally like to measure, get the levels, and paint the site to see for myself what the pond will look like. Often times a design on paper doesn’t survive this process. You will often find that the pond will be different in real life than you were thinking it would be on paper.
Image | Humans Making Bad Choices Is Why I Garden
Humans Making Bad Choices Is Why I Garden
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

As long as you're curious and read somewhat widely, if you're one of those readers who digs a bit further now and then, it's pretty much impossible to avoid the conclusion that humans are living unsustainably.

We're using up energy sources that took approximately 350 million years to accrete in a single 350-year-long orgy of consumption.
Humans Making Bad Choices Is Why I Garden
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

As long as you're curious and read somewhat widely, if you're one of those readers who digs a bit further now and then, it's pretty much impossible to avoid the conclusion that humans are living unsustainably.

We're using up energy sources that took approximately 350 million years to accrete in a single 350-year-long orgy of consumption.
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