http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/ Phoenix Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:06:09 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/578 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/578 First we must buy some time, a resource we are perilously short of. If we can do that at vast expense for the financial system then we should be able to do it Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:59:10 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/577 ... - Yes, we are born, we live, we die. It may be that some part of what we are exists thereafter but it won't be much like in this life. As a species it Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:05:39 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/576 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/576 There are 3 stages.The first has started - too slowly - and must be accelerated greatly and completed within 5 years. That stage is mostly easy enough compared Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:33:15 GMT jdurston9 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/575 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/575 So basically we're all doomed. Why fight then? Why try to escape the inescapable? Instead of preparing for a catastrophe that probably won't happen til you're Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:26:13 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/574 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/574 This is going to be a series of at least 4 posts, an alternative name might be 'Plan C', we are embarked on 'Plan A' and that destroys us and more, 'Plan B' is Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:11:00 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/572 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/572 Lots of interesting potato varieties available in USA and Canada, obtaining from outside your country is frowned upon due to risk of introducing diseases and Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:14:53 GMT Jill Barnett http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/571 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/571 Makes me wish I didn't live in the United States.  Too far away from like minded folk.  Very jealous of the long list of potatoes.  This year was my first Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:23:00 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/570 Heading Out, over at TOD and one who REALLY knows about this stuff, has done a timely overview of current fossil energy supplies and consumption: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:53:10 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/569 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/569 The 'Billionaires Club' apparently think that overpopulation and overconsumption could trigger problems before too long: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:52:34 GMT maggie Dove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/568 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/568 I would love a few Please but perhaps I could pick your brains at the next Culbokie market Maggie ________________________________ From: Agric Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:22:13 GMT Jill Barnett http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/567 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/567 Thanks, Agric, for the post.  I'm rather list and numerically oriented so it appealed to me greatly.  :)  Looking forward to reading 'Frodo's Solution' over Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:51:28 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/566 But sadly... http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/warbeyondbox/humorimages/frodo_has_failed.jpg Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:17:08 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/565 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/565 This is a follow-on from my last lemmings overview. It's a list of: plausible, probable and near certain happenings over the next 3-ish years. I estimate a Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:16:44 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/564 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/564 On Wednesday 23rd I said in private email: "Today was US Fed meeting day and I think it has marked a short term top in stocks, oil, gold; and a short term Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:56:14 GMT Agric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/563 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/message/563 I'm about half way through lifting this year's potatoes - and saving seed potatoes for next year. It's a bit of a logistic nightmare since we grew 55