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The media and official sources are preparing us: in the next few months, maybe even the next few weeks, a new worldwide financial crisis will begin, and it will be worse than in 2008. Catastrophes and disasters are being openly discussed. But what will happen after? What will our lives be like if b...

Somewhat related, and a book that proposes some solutions, is the excellent Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. You can read the first 13 chapters online . I haven't finished it yet but he gives a good overview of the bigger picture and the problems that are caused by our interest-based money sy...

UndercoverElephant wrote:I can't understand why nobody has figured this out before now.

The best ideas are ones that seem obvious in hindsight.

This looks promising: Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear

Interesting to read this 5 years after it was written: Why the Global Financial System is About to Collapse

Also, for short term moves in gold and silver I've found http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/ to be quite good.

Living more healthy lives than most 62-year-old Americans have lived is not very difficult and would obviously lead to fewer health problems (although I'm yet to be convinced that Veganism is healthy). More to the point though, living more healthily now isn't going to help this lady very much. It's...

I read "The China Study" and went mostly vegan to avoid the kind of illnesses that this lady has. I haven't seen the full film http://forksoverknives.com/ yet but you can get the idea from the trailer, they follow some people who made changes to their diet, their health improved and they w...

There's a really interesting blog here: http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com/ He argues that the cause of the financial crisis is "the massive input of labour into the world economy, which has happened as a result of both India and China entering into world markets. This has led to the effecti...

Adam1 wrote: The other was a recommendation for a super frugal fridge.

Was it anything to do with: Man Retrofits Freezer to Make an Ultra-Efficient Fridge

There's a review here:
http://www.bizoppsuk.com/get_rich_at_home.php

It's not good

Here it is:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... n0406.html

Looks even fancier and more expensive than the Electrisave.

If you want a Wattson you might like to know that you can get 10% cashback through http://www.quidco.com/firebox/

In this time I have activated 26 new members and would guess that I have deleted at least 300 false members. I managed a phpBB forum for the company I used to work for. We had hundreds of registrations (and posts) from spammers, so we installed phpBB KittenAuth which completely stopped them while s...

I'm interested. I live in Reading and have just started the CREST MSc (distance learning) course.

There's a summary of the programme on Wikipedia: The Trap (television documentary series).

I enjoyed it, though I missed the first half. I'm sure a torrent will be available at some point.